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After Annie: A Novel

Anna Quindlen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"A wise and heartfelt novel of connection, of loss and love and the power of both." - Amy Bloom. Quindlen's trademark wisdom on family, emotions, and the secrets of people in a small town are at the center of this novel about triumph over adversity and the power of love to transcend...
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Wandering Stars: A novel

Tommy Orange - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange's breakout best seller There There - winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the John Leonard Prize, the American Book Award, and one of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2018 - Wandering Stars traces the legacies...
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Women of Good Fortune: A Novel

Sophie Wan - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling debut about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who launch a heist to steal all the gift money on the big day. Lulu has always been...
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The Last Verse: A Novel

Caroline Frost - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes The Last Verse, a gripping novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime. When aspiring...
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The Great Divide: A Novel

Cristina Henriquez - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there, by Cristina Henríquez, acclaimed author of The Book of Unknown AmericansIt is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first,...
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The Berlin Letters: A Cold War Novel

Katherine Reay - Harper Muse
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical,...
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The Underground Library: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this heartwarming novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown,...
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James: A Novel

Percival Everett - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) , Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime....
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