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Stray City: A Novel
Chelsey Johnson · Custom House Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging - to a city, a culture, and a family - when none of them can quite contain who you really are.All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .Twenty-four-year-old... |
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The Brightest Sun
Adrienne Benson · Park Row Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating debut following three women in their search for home and family in 1990s sub-Saharan AfricaLeona, an isolated American anthropologist, births a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely... |
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The Wild Inside: A Novel
Jamey Bradbury · William Morrow Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan... |
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Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel
Taylor Brown · St. Martin's Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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"A fresh, authentic, and eloquent new voice in American fiction." - Robert Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of Gap CreekIn Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country... |
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A Guide for Murdered Children: A Novel
Sarah Sparrow · Blue Rider Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book." -David Cronenberg Terrifying, thoroughly original and hauntingly written, A Guide for Murdered Children is a psychological... |
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The Italian Party: A Novel
CHRISTINA LYNCH · St. Martin's Press Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny page-turner about "innocent" Americans abroad in 1950s Siena"Imagine Beautiful Ruins plus horses; Toujours Provence with spies, a mystery and sex. The Italian Party is a fizzy, page-turning delight that... |
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American Histories
John Edgar Wideman · Scribner Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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In a new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman - the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life - explores subjects from the historical to the imagined, with a cast of fictional and real-life characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean Michael Basquiat, and his own family.John... |
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Trenton Makes: A Novel
Tadzio Koelb · Doubleday Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine... |
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The Fighter
Michael Farris Smith · Little Brown and Company Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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A blistering novel of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to Jack, the foster mother only days away from dying, her mind... |
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The Sparsholt Affair
Guido Bonino · Knopf Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study... |
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