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The Lying Game: A Novel

RUTH WARE · GALLERY BOOKS
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware's chilling new novel.On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach....
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I Am the Brother of XX

FLEUR JAEGGY · New Directions
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

As concentrated as bullets, new stories by the inimitable Fleur Jaeggy Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also...
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Careers for Women: A Novel

JOANNA SCOTT · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A masterful novel about how our choices continue to haunt us long after we've made them from the author of The Manikin, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.In the Public Relations Department of the New York Port Authority in 1958, Maggie Gleason is one of several extraordinary young women...
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Fierce Kingdom

Gin Phillips · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"It tore at every maternal fiber in my body. I couldn't put it down." - Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The WidowAn electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to protect him. The zoo is nearly...
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The Burning Ground: Stories

Adam O'Riordan · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A debut collection of stories by a poet with a "painter's eye for detail and pianist's touch for sounding the right notes" (Simon Armitage) .Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, this collection of eight stories explores fractured...
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The Veneration of Monsters

Suzanne Burns · Dzanc Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

In The Veneration of Monsters, Suzanne Burns' sophomore fiction collection, an array of unusual heroines search for love and acceptance, a pursuit that often takes a bizarre turn. Cherise tries to impress a man who only exists in her imagination. Violet throws away a meaningful relationship...
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Like a Fading Shadow: A Novel

ANTONIO MUOZ MOLINA · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr.The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada, securing a fake passport,...
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Hollow: A Novel

Owen Egerton · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

When Oliver Bonds, a revered religious studies professor at the University of Texas, loses his toddler son and undergoes intense legal scrutiny over his involvement, grief engulfs him completely. His life is upended; Oliver loses his wife, home, and faith. Tree years after his son's...
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Pages For Her: A Novel

Sylvia Brownrigg · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What happens to the love of your life if you've lived most of your life without her? Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair,...
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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

Lawrence Osborne · Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A new novel by the author of THE FORGIVEN, about a Mediterranean vacation that takes a terrifying turn On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still...
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