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How Are You Going to Save Yourself

JM HOLMES · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"JM Holmes is not just a new voice but a new force: honest, urgent, compelling, often hilarious, and more often gut-wrenching. Comparisons to Junot Díaz and Denis Johnson are perhaps inevitable, but I imagine they'll prove short-lived; in a few years we'll be comparing writers...
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Sight: A Novel

Jessie Greengrass · Hogarth
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable first novel from award-winning British writer, Jessie Greengrass'It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice...
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The Air You Breathe: A Novel

Frances de Pontes Peebles · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation...
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The Devoted: A Novel

Blair Hurley · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding confession of what it means to abandon one life for another, The Devoted asks what it takes, and what you'll sacrifice, to find enlightenment.Nicole Hennessy's life revolves around her Zen practice at the Boston Zendo, seeking solace in the tenets of Buddhism to the chagrin...
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Comemadre

ROQUE LARRAQUY · Coffee House Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

In the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, a doctor becomes involved in a misguided experiment that investigates the threshold between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes in search of aesthetic transformation, turning himself into an art object....
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Ohio

Stephen Markley · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio - a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - depicting one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former classmates...
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Red, White, Blue: A novel

Lea Carpenter · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her dead father's secret past--at once a gripping, immersive tale of duplicity and espionage, and a moving story of love and loyalty.Anna is the beloved...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"A lush debut; Owens delivers her mystery wrapped in gorgeous, lyrical prose." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightHow long can you protect your heart?For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North...
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The Line That Held Us

David Joy · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years,...
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Mysterium: A Novel

Susan Froderberg · Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Inspired by the true story of Nanda Devi Unsoeld's tragic 1976 death while climbing her namesake mountain, Susan Froderberg's novel Mysterium tells the tale of a courageous woman's ascent to the summit of India's highest peak to honor her fallen mother. Mysterium, known...
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