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Help Wanted: A Novel

Adelle Waldman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed...
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The Princess of Las Vegas: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

THE PRINCESS IS FAKE. THE MURDERS ARE REAL * From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and The Lioness, a Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of money and murder in this twisting tale of organized crime,...
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North Woods: A Novel

Daniel Mason - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries - a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.. When two young lovers...
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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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Mona of the Manor: A Novel (Tales of the City Book 10)

Armistead Maupin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Maupin is one of America's finest storytellers." - Neil Gaiman Set in the early 1990s, the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin's beloved and enduring Tales of the City series follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor...
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Memory Piece: A Novel

Lisa Ko - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire...
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The Other Valley: A Novel

Scott Alexander Howard - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.....
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Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague. In Helen Oyeyemi's joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing - one that...
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The #1 Lawyer: Patterson's greatest southern legal thriller yet

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Move over, John Grisham! Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his wife is murdered, and he becomes the nation's #1 suspect.. Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished...
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American Spirits

Russell Banks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.. A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social...
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Studies at the School by the Sea: The Fourth School by the Sea Novel

Jenny Colgan - Avon
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited and never-before published finale in New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's delightful School by the Sea series.After all those lessons, it's time to graduate....Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.. After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband...
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Lost Man's Lane: A Novel

Scott Carson - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thriller from bestselling author Scott Carson.. For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true - particularly since the PI is investigating...
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Pride and Joy: A Novel

Louisa Onomé - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back - from an author with a "razor-sharp, smart,...
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel

Hwang Bo-reum - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.. Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul,...
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How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel

Kristen Perrin - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club, an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate.... Now it's up to her great-niece...
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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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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel

Xochitl Gonzalez - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Who gets to leave a legacy?. 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world,...
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The Heiress: A Novel

Rachel Hawkins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's...
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Worry: A Novel

Alexandra Tanner - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity - a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood.. It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold - anxious, artistically...
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Sylvia's Second Act: A Novel

Hillary Yablon - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams - with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand...
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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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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel

Jennine Capó Crucet - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy - a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes - you can call him Izzy - might not be the Scarface...
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Murder Road

Simone St. James - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small...
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