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The Wish Child: A Novel

CATHERINE CHIDGEY · Counterpoint
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

" A tour de force, a work of art, an insightful commentary on the horrors and pointlessness of war and violence, a love story . . . so beautifully written that it hurts . . . Gripping from start to finish . . . One of the best novels I have read this year. Actually, maybe one of the best...
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November Road: A Novel

LOU BERNEY · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway...
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The Scribe of Siena: A Novel

MELODIE WINAWER · Touchstone
Format: Paperback

"Readers of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring ... will be swept away by the spell of medieval Siena" (Library Journal, starred review) in this transporting love story and gripping historical mystery.Accomplished neurosurgeon...
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Bitter Orange

CLAIRE FULLER · Tin House Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico...
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The Shape of the Ruins: A Novel

Juan Gabriel Va?squez · Riverhead Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting...
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Waiting for Eden: A novel

Elliot Ackerman · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives.Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room....
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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories

DEBORAH EISENBERG · Ecco
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg's stories gently compel...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDREIII DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel she cannot...
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Deviation: A Novel

Luce D'Eramo · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A devoted fascist changes her mind and her life after witnessing the horrors of the HolocaustFirst published in Italy in 1979, Luce D'Eramo's Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into...
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Love War Stories

IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ · The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Puerto Rican girls are brought up to want one thing: true love. Yet they are raised by women whose lives are marked by broken promises, grief, and betrayal. While some believe that they'll be the ones to finally make it work, others swear not to repeat cycles of violence. This collection...
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