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The Third Hotel: A Novel

Laura Van den Berg · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

One of HuffPost's 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death -- and the truth about their marriage -- in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.Shortly...
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Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties: A Novel

CAMILLE PAGAN · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she's also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears:...
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Washington Black: A novel

Esi Edugyan · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning international best seller Half-Blood Blues comes a dazzling new novel, about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar...
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

One of Stylist Magazine's 20 Must-Read Books of 2018 One of Harper's Bazaar's 10 Must-Read Books of 2018 One of Marie Claire, Australia's 10 Books You Absolutely Have to Read in 2018The Rules of BlackheathEvelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days,...
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Wolves of Eden: A Novel

KEVIN MCCARTHY · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West.Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious combat...
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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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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

PAT BARKER · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final...
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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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Not Our Kind: A Novel

KITTY ZELDIS · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: eBook

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women - one Jewish, one a WASP - and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor...
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Have His Carcase

Dorothy L Sayers · Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

"The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries." - Chicago TribuneThe great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing...
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