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The Paper Palace: A Novel

Miranda Cowley Heller · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace" - the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back...
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A Woman of Intelligence: A Novel

Karin Tanabe · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954, and the post-war American dream has become a nightmare.A born and bred New Yorker, Katharina is the daughter of immigrants,...
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M, King's Bodyguard: A Novel

Niall Leonard · Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From humble beginnings in Ireland, William Melville has risen through hard work, intelligence, and occasional brute force to become head of Britain's Special Branch, personal bodyguard to Queen Victoria and her family, and the scourge of anarchists at home and abroad. But when in January...
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

Catherine Raven · Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox. When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house...
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We Were Never Here: A Novel

Andrea Bartz · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Emily is having the time of her life - she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor....
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Not a Happy Family: A Novel

Shari Lapena · Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Mercer. But even all their money can't protect them when...
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