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Stray City: A Novel

Chelsey Johnson · Custom House
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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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