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What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw

Leah Stewart · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated author (whom The Boston Globe compared to Anne Tyler) of The Myth of You and Me explores an untraditional love story through the lens of a character actor who must finally become the hero of her own story.After a series of missteps in the face of his newfound fame, actor...
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America Is Not the Heart: A Novel

ELAINE CASTILLO · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in AmericaHow many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's...
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American by Day

Derek B Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård could be basking in the success of her recent...
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The Cactus

Sarah Haywood · Park Row
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpectedEven the prickliest cactus has its flower ... For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that...
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The Favorite Sister

Jessica Knoll · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From Jessica Knoll - author of Luckiest Girl Alive, the instant New York Times bestseller and the bestselling debut novel of 2015 - comes a blisteringly paced thriller starring competitive sisters whose dark secrets and lies result in murder when they sign onto a reality TV show.When five...
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues

Nova Jacobs · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down - and protect - before others can get their hands on it.Just days...
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Warlight: A novel

MICHAEL ONDAATJE · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their...
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The Perfect Nanny: A Novel

Lei?la Slimani · Penguin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

"Is The Perfect Nanny the next Gone Girl? This author's book on a killer nanny is next year's must-read." - The Telegraph The #1 international bestseller and winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt - the first book by a Moroccan (and pregnant)...
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Trenton Makes: A Novel

Tadzio Koelb · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine...
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Remembrance

MARY MONROE · Dafina
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this moving, unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe, a successful, happily married mother suddenly finds herself feeling far from joyful. But Christmas brings an unexpected chance to rediscover herself, and what happiness really means . . . For Beatrice...
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