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Collision: A Novel

MERLE KRGER · The Unnamed Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A raft with eleven Algerian refugees, running low on fuel. A cruise ship with a small town's worth of international passengers and crew members. An Irish freighter. A Spanish rescue vessel. One single point of convergence in a vast wash of blue water. Miami-based The Spirit of Europe,...
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The Mannequin Makers: A Novel

Craig Cliff · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Playfully literate and strikingly original, an unforgettable debut novel about art, imitation, and obsession. Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man arrives on the morning train one day in 1903 -- announcing the imminent visit of a famous...
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Carnegie's Maid: A Novel

Marie Benedict · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor...
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Broken Wing

David Budbill · Green Writers Press
Pages: 213
Format: Paperback

Broken Wing is the story of one man's love for birds and efforts to save a rusty blackbird that can't fly south for the winter. The author, David Budbill, worked closely with Cummings in order to finish the book before he died in October of this year. The publisher enlisted local...
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Hearts Entwined: A Historical Romance Novella Collection

Karen Witemeyer · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Four top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Love Knot," Claire Nevin gets the surprise of her life awaiting her sister's arrival by train. Mary Connealy's...
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In the Fall They Come Back

Robert Bausch · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly observed prep school novel about fraught teacher-student relationships--and about coming into adulthood.Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school, and hoping some...
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Dark Echoes of the Past

Ramon Diaz Eterovic · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

The first novel by multiple-award-winning Chilean author Ramón Díaz Eterovic to be translated into English - a landmark event for fans of crime fiction.Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho...
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Ultraluminous: A Novel

Katherine Faw Morris · MCD
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Girlfriend. Prostitute. Addict. Terrorist? Who is K?The daring new novel from Katherine Faw, the brilliant author of Young God, is a scintillating story of money, sex, and power told in Faw's viciously sharp prose. A high-end, girlfriend-experience prostitute has just returned to her native...
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One Station Away: A Novel

OLAF OLAFSSON · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate...
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We'll Sleep When We're Old: A Novel

Pino Corrias · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Like Fellini's classic film 8½ and mixed with Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty, a gorgeously wrought novel that explores the complicated life of a controversial Italian film producer who vanishes after a fire destroys his home.Rome, present day: an extravagant, opulent world of fashionable...
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