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Hits and Misses: Stories

SIMON RICH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A sharp new collection from "one of the funniest writers in America" -- The Daily BeastSimon Rich is the "hilarious" (Washington Post) humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) , James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian)...
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How to Love a Jamaican: Stories

ALEXIA ARTHURS · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From a magnetic new voice, a debut story collection set in Jamaica and America for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Imbolo Mbue. "There is a way to be cruel that seems Jamaican to me." Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - Alexia Arthurs...
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Inappropriation: A Novel

Lexi Freiman · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment." -- Emma Cline, author of The GirlsA wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politicsStarting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school,...
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Women of the Dunes: A Novel

Sarah Maine · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River, a rich, atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland, in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman, a nineteenth-century woman, and a twenty-first-century archeologist weave together...
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Mary B: A Novel: An untold story of Pride and Prejudice

Katherine J. Chen · Random House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every...
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Silent Hearts: A Novel

Gwen Florio · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan? about two women - an American aid worker and her local interpreter - who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them...
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The Disappearing: A Novel

LORI ROY · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two time Edgar Award winning-author Lori Roy returns with her latest suspense, a dark tale about a small present-day Southern town where girls disappear and boys run away.When Lane Fielding fled north Florida after high school for the anonymity of New York City, she never thought she'd...
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The Wrong Heaven

AMY BONNAFONS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Including the story "Horse," as heard on This American Life. "In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each story further complicating the world as we know it. With a style that blends humor and sincerity in such strange, perfect...
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Gods of Wood and Stone

Mark Di Ionno · Touchstone
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime - The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth - two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor...
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OK, Mr. Field: A Novel

Katharine Kilalea · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A mesmerizing debut novel about a concert pianist who fears he is losing his mindMr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a tunnel....
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