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Julia Alvarez · Algonquin Books
Format: Book

The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own."...

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Apeirogon

Colum McCann · Random House
Format: Book

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon - named for a shape with a countably...

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Eli's Promise

Ronald H. Balson · St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

"National Jewish Book Award winter Ron Balson returns triumphantly with Eli's Promise, a captivating saga of the Holocaust and its aftermath spanning decades and continents. Readers will not be able to put this book down, but will turn the pages compulsively with heart in throat,...

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry · Doubleday
Format: Book

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant...

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The Liar's Dictionary

Eley Williams · Doubleday
Format: Book

n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.Peter Winceworth, Victorian lexicographer, is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby's multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. His disaffection...

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Loving Eleanor

Susan Wittig Albert · Persevero Press
Format: Book

When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok - Hick - is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the 1932 Democratic presidential candidate, the two women become deeply, intimately involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy...

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The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

Ally Carter · Avon
Format: Book

Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter.The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas.Meet...

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Now Is Not the Time to Panic

KEVIN WILSON · Ecco
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge - aspiring writer, indifferent...

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