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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out: A Novel

Sally Franson · The Dial Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising - and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be. Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this sharply observed and savagely wise debut novel. Casey Pendergast is getting hers. Once a book-loving English major,...
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course of an exceptional...
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Paris by the Book: A Novel

Liam Callanan · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband....
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We Own the Sky: A Novel

Luke Allnutt · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A triumphant story about love, loss and finding hope - against all odds"We looked down at the cliff jutting into the sea, a rubber boat full of kids going under the arch, and then you started running and jumping through the grass, dodging the rabbit holes, shouting at the top of your...
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Dead Girl Running

Christina Dodd · HQN
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

I have three confessions to make:1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie.Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear....
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Raising the dad : a novel

Tom Matthews · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From acclaimed screenwriter and novelist Tom Matthews comes a high-concept and surprisingly funny novel about a man who must cope with his troubled family after learning a devastating secret. In Raising the Dad, John Husted's life is complicated, although not in any remarkable way....
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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

Stephanie Dray · William Morrow
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton - a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Haunting, moving, and beautifully written, Dray...
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present...
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The Unforgotten: A Novel

Laura Powell · Gallery Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Louise Penny and Tana French, this haunting debut novel "with a slight Broadchurch feel" (Sunday Herald) explores the devastating repercussions of a long-ago crime as it delves into forbidden relationships, the emotional bond between mothers and daughters, and the dark...
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Girl Unknown

Karen Perry · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

How quickly could the family we have created for ourselves unravel -- and how far will we go to protect it?David and Caroline Connolly are swimming successfully through their marriage's middle years -- raising two children; overseeing care for David's ailing mother; leaning into their careers,...
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Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel

PAUL HOWARTH · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel - a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia - reminiscent of Philipp Meyer's The Son and the novels of Cormac...
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I Love You Too Much

ALICIA DRAKE · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent. Alicia Drake, author of the critically acclaimed biography The Beautiful Fall, evokes contemporary...
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The Winter Station

JODY SHIELDS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely,...
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Back Talk: Stories

Danielle Lazarin · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

From an award-winning writer, a stunning collection of stories about women's unexpressed desires and needs, and the unexpected ways they resurface "Deceptively quiet but packs a powerful punch . . . The best collection I've read in years, from a phenomenal new talent."...
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Self-Portrait with Boy: A Novel

Rachel Lyon · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death - an image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship.Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer...
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Hap and Hazard and the End of the World

Diane DeSanders · Bellevue Literary Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"Diane DeSanders's genius lies in her ability to capture the intimate interiority of a very particular childhood while at the same time interrogating larger questions of class, race, and religion. Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is a gorgeous, profoundly original novel."...
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The Which Way Tree

Elizabeth Crook · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who braves the dangers of the Texas frontier to avenge her mother's death"When I began to read this book its unique voice appealed to me immediately. Elizabeth Crook has written a beautiful novel with wonderful characters." --Robert...
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Asymmetry: A Novel

Lisa Halliday · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most...
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The Reluctant Fortune-Teller

Keziah Frost · Park Row
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A retired accountant becomes the town's fortune-teller in this witty and charming debutNorbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It's why at seventy-three years old he's broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when "Carlotta's Club"...
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The Driest Season: A Novel

Meghan Kenny · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A raw, compelling family saga set in Wisconsin farm country during World War II.As her community suffers a long season of drought, sixteen-year-old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. On a balmy summer afternoon, she finds him hanging in the barn...
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White Houses: A Novel

Amy Bloom · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us. "I never envied a wife or a husband, until I met Eleanor. Then, I would have traded everything...
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Knucklehead

Adam Smyer · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

"This book is bold in how it treats the reader as an insider to the reality of American blackness. It can be, in turns, lyrically poignant, cynical, hilarious, and infuriating."--Foreword Reviews, Starred Review"In this comic debut novel, lawyer Marcus Hayes careens through...
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By the Book

Julia Sonneborn · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiancé has just become the president of her college - and her new boss - in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion.Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's...
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The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Kim Fu · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp - and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp...
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Happiness for Humans

P Z Reizin · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

When Tom and Jen, two lonely people, are brought together by an intriguing email, they have no idea their mysterious benefactor is an artificial intelligence who has decided to play Cupid. "You, Tom and Jen, don't know one another-not yet-but I think you should." Jen, an ex-journalist...
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