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The Confusion of Languages

Siobhan Fallon · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring."A gripping,...
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Flood: A Novel

Melissa Scholes Young · Center Street
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost . . . and found.Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, ten years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now she's returned unannounced, and her family...
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Our Little Racket: A Novel

Angelica Baker · ECCO
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

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Indigo

Charlaine Harris · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo...
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Girl on the Leeside: A Novel

Kathleen Anne Kenney · Nan A. Talese
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective...
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The Trout: A Novel

Peter Cunningham · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

At the heart of every life there lies a secret.Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book,...
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Mad: A Novel

Chloe? J Esposito · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on living it.Alvie Knightly is a trainwreck:...
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Strangers to Temptation

Scott Gould · Hub City Press
Pages: 227
Format: Paperback

The debut collection from award-winning short story writer Scott Gould, Strangers to Temptation, takes us to the white sand banks of the Black River in lowcountry South Carolina during the early 1970s, a place in time where religion and race provide the backdrop for an often uneasy coming-of-age....
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Flesh and Bone and Water: A Novel

LUIZA SAUMA · SCRIBNER
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From an exciting new voice in literary fiction, a seductive, dazzling, atmospheric story of family, class, and deception set against the mesmerizing backdrops of Rio de Janeiro, the Amazon River, and London.André is a listless Brazilian teenager and the son of a successful plastic surgeon...
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My Struggle: Book 5: Some Rain Must Fall

Karl Ove Knausga?rd · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

The fifth installment in the eagerly awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle seriesThe fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself...
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