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Eternal Life: A Novel

DARA HORN · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, critically acclaimed author returns with an ingenious novel about what it would mean to live forever.Rachel has an unusual problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles -- widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son -- are only the latest. She's...
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The Storm King: A Novel

BRENDAN DUFFY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by dark secrets and an unsolved mystery, a young doctor returns to his isolated Adirondacks hometown in a tense, atmospheric novel in the vein of Michael Koryta and Harlan Coben. Burying the past only gives it strength - and fury. Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most...
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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel

SEAN PENN · Atria Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

"An almost literally up-to-the-minute fever dream of a novel." - Bill Maher From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novella about Bob Honey - a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. He's just a guy trying to make it through...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones · Algonquin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could...
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The Glass Forest: A Novel

Cynthia Swanson · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s about a deeply troubled family and three women who will reveal its dark truths.In the autumn of 1960, Angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. At twenty-one,...
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It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

Richard Russo · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates,...
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Rosie Colored Glasses: A Novel

Brianna Wolfson · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

SHE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES ... Rosie Collins makes everything dazzle. She's magnetic. Rex Thorpe is serious and unsentimental. Yet when the two meet, Rex is swept up in Rosie's manic tornado of love. But just as opposites attract, they also cause friction....
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Some Hell: A Novel

PATRICK NATHAN · Graywolf Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen's coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father's suicideMiddle school hasn't been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly, his autistic brother lashes out at him, and he has a crush on his best friend,...
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Bachelor Girl: A Novel by the Author of Orphan #8

Kim van Alkemade · Touchstone
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 comes a fresh and intimate novel about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love - inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939...
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Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

Ahmed Saadawi · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A prizewinning novel of literary horror from war-torn Iraq - and the debut in English of "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times) From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café - collects human...
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