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Elmet

Fiona Mozley · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "Elmet is a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable." - The Economist"Mozley is the breakout star of this year's Man Booker Prize longlist. And with good reason: Elmet, with its rugged landscape, violence and high...
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Halsey Street

Naima Coster · Little A
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong - not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's...
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One Station Away: A Novel

OLAF OLAFSSON · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate...
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Three Daughters of Eve

ELIF SHAFAK · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches...
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A Hundred Small Lessons: A Novel

Ashley Hay · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives.When Elsie Gormley...
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I'll Take You There: A Novel

Wally Lamb · Harper Perennial
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women, Wally Lamb - author of numerous New York Times bestselling novels including She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True, and We Are Water - weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's...
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He

John Connolly · Quercus
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

John Connolly recreates the Golden Age of Hollywood in this moving, literary portrait of two men who found their true selves in a comedic partnership. When Stan Laurel was paired with Oliver Hardy, affectionately known as Babe, the history of comedy--not to mention their personal and professional...
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Alternate Side: A Novel

Anna Quindlen · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood - and a seemingly happy marriage - are exposed by an unexpected act of violence in this provocative new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that...
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Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · Penguin
Pages: 305
Format: Hardcover

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories

Truman Capote · Vintage
Pages: 178
Format: Book

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue...
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