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Who Is Vera Kelly?

Rosalie Knecht · Tin House Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"The twisty, literary, woman-driven spy novel you've always wanted to read. Dazzling." -- Amy Stewart, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Waits With Gun A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 at The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bustle, Autostraddle, and more.New York City,...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing...
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In the Garden of the Fugitives: A Novel

Ceridwen Dovey · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both...
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Fight No More: Stories

Lydia Millet · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first collection since the Pulitzer Prize finalist Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millet presents a web of stories that explore what it means to be home. A real estate broker is the first...
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The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero

Margaret George · Berkley
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

Ascending to the throne was only the beginning... Now Margaret George, the author of The Confessions of Young Nero, weaves a web of politics and passion, as ancient Rome's most infamous emperor cements his place in history.With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus...
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Something in the Water: A Novel

CATHERINE STEADMAN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut - for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin...
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The Verdun Affair: A Novel

NICK DYBEK · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.In 1921, two young Americans...
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Southernmost

Silas House · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"In Silas House's moving new novel, a pastor wrestles with a crisis not just of faith but of all the apparent certainties of his life: a crisis of marriage, of community, of fatherhood. This is a novel of painful, finally revelatory awakening, of fierce love and necessary disaster,...
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Kudos: A Novel

RACHEL CUSK · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos.A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening...
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Silent Hearts: A Novel

Gwen Florio · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan? about two women - an American aid worker and her local interpreter - who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them...
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