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On the Rooftop: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - ?Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives - set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth,...
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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Kingsolver is a writer who can help us understand and navigate the chaos of these times." - Minneapolis Star TribuneFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes...
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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Adalyn Grace brings to life a highly romantic, Gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal. Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being - and each...
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The Whalebone Theatre: A novel

Joanna Quinn - Knopf
Format: Kindle Edition

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II - a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation."Utterly heartbreaking and joyous ... I just...
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Violet Made of Thorns

GINA CHEN - Delacorte Press
Format: Kindle Edition

"Beautifully vicious. Perfect for the fairytale reader who has always wanted the heroine to grow sharp teeth and bite Prince Charming." - Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights A darkly enchanting fantasy debut about a morally gray witch, a cursed...
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Our Missing Hearts: A Novel

Celeste Ng - ?Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fearTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former...
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The Night Ship: A Novel

Jess Kidd
Format: Hardcover

Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very...
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The Fortunes of Jaded Women: A Novel

CAROLYN HUYNH - ?Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Jonathan Tropper, KJ Dell'Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women - cursed to never know love or happiness - as they reunite when a psychic...
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Mad Honey: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: Kindle Edition

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not ThereOlivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect...
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