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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out: A Novel

Sally Franson - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising - and the equally slippery question of who she wants to be. Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada in this sharply observed and savagely wise debut novel. Casey Pendergast is getting hers. Once a book-loving...
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One Station Away: A Novel

OLAF OLAFSSON - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his lifeAn overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fianc is desperate...
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A State of Freedom: A Novel

NEEL MUKHERJEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A devastating and powerful vision of a people defined by that most unquenchable human urge, the striving for a different life.Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five...
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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Hazel Gaynor - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes - as everyone...
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I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

TESS GERRITSEN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series - continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives."Suspense doesn't get smarter than this." - Lee Child...
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The Whispering Room: A Jane Hawk Novel

DEAN KOONTZ - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

Jane Hawk - fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine - continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These...
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The Queen of Hearts

Kimmery Martin - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel set against a background of hospital rounds and life-or-death decisions that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious...
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French Exit: A Novel

Patrick deWitt - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire...
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Sunburn: A Novel

LAURA LIPPMAN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Bustle, Popsugar, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Seattle Times, Book Riot, LitHub, BookPage, and Paperback Paris."Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master....
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The Dependents

KATHARINE DION - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage."The Dependents is a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations...Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence."...
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Social Creature: A Novel

Tara Isabella Burton - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City.If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just...
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King of Ashes

Raymond E. Feist - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga - an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world's destiny.For centuries, the five greatest kingdoms of North and South...
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The Good People

HANNAH KENT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller that takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy."-Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterBased on true events in nineteenth...
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Things That Happened Before the Earthquake: A Novel

CHIARA BARZINI - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground - in more ways than one. Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager,...
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Artemis: A Novel

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon.Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown...
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The French Girl

Lexie Elliott - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

I Know What You Did Last Summer meets the French countryside in this exhilarating psychological suspense novel about a woman trapped by the bonds of friendship - perfect for fans of The Widow and The Woman in Cabin 10. One of... RealSimple's and Cosmopolitan's Best...
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The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel

Julie Schumacher - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now...
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Madness Is Better Than Defeat: A novel

Ned Beauman - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A wild, astonishing literary thriller by arguably England's most accomplished young writer, about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--the Man Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far.In 1938, two rival expeditions...
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Nicholas Pyenson - Viking
Format: Book

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales...
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You Were Made for This

MICHELLE SACKS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A gripping page-turner for fans of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, Michelle Sacks's You Were Made For This provocatively explores the darker sides of marriage, motherhood. and friendship.Doting wife, devoted husband, cherished child. Merry, Sam, and Conor are the perfect family in the perfect place....
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How It Happened

Michael Koryta - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders...
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES - Crown
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course...
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Strong to the Bone: A Caitlin Strong Novel

JON LAND - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong takes on a gang of neo-Nazis in Strong to the Bone, an action-packed novel of the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series by Jon Land 1944: Texas Ranger Jim Strong investigates a triple murder inside a Nazi POW camp in Texas. The Present: His daughter, fifth...
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Green: A Novel

Sam Graham-Felsen - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A novel of race and privilege in America that you haven't seen before: a coming-of-age story about a life-changing friendship, propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable voice "This isn't some Jedi bull****; the force I'm talking about is real, and its energies are everywhere,...
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How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations ... .A delightfully witty ... poignant novel." - The Washington Post "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going...
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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

ALICE MCDERMOTT - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America's finest writers -- a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn.On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps...
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Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One

RAPHAELLE GIORDANO - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search for Happiness.At thirty-eight and a quarter years old, Paris native...
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I Was Anastasia: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's...
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Harry's Trees

Jon Cohen - Harlequin Audio and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, intent on losing himself. But fate...
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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long...
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The Melody: A Novel

Jim Crace - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard - bitten and scratched....
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First Person: A novel

Richard Flanagan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined.Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung...
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False Witness: A Novel

ANDREW GRANT - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Alabama police detective Cooper Devereaux chases a murderer who's been dubbed the "Birthday Killer" in this edge-of-your-seat thriller for readers of James Lee Burke, Craig Johnson, and Robert Crais. A woman disappears on the way to her twentieth birthday party. Three days later...
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Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic

ACE ATKINS - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions.The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums....
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Midwinter Break: A Novel

BERNARD MACLAVERTY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Colm Tobn, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for salvation.Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from...
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Price of Silence, The: A First World War Espionage Thriller

Dolores Gordon-Smith - Severn House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling World War One spy story from the author of the acclaimed Jack Haldean series. Working for the British Government as a secret agent, Anthony Brooke wants to expose the people responsible for blackmailing innocent people and gruesome murders. But when the gang plots a kidnap,...
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Becoming Belle

Nuala O'Connor - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A witty and inherently feminist novel about passion and marriage, based on a true story of an unstoppable woman ahead of her time in Victorian London.In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess...
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All the Names They Used for God: Stories

Anjali Sachdeva - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

For fans of Dave Eggers and Kelly Link, an exhilarating collection of stories that explores the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives - from censorship and terrorism to technology and online dating. Spanning centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters, these...
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Providence: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes - Lenny
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive novel that is part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller - from the acclaimed author of You whose work Stephen King describes as "hypnotic and totally original" Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond...
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Ayiti

ROXANE GAY - Grove Press
Format: Paperback

From New York Times -bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, Ayiti is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. Originally published by a small press, this Grove Press paperback will make Gay's debut widely available for the first time, including several new stories....
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Now That You Mention It

Kristan Higgins - HQN Books
Format: Hardcover

One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying Two major steps back. Injured...
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We Own the Sky: A Novel

Luke Allnutt - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

A triumphant story about love, loss and finding hope - against all odds"We looked down at the cliff jutting into the sea, a rubber boat full of kids going under the arch, and then you started running and jumping through the grass, dodging the rabbit holes, shouting at the top of your...
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The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick) "This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna...
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Warlight: A novel

Michael Ondaatje - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly...
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Y is for...

Sue Grafton - Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Format: Hardcover

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone confronts her darkest and most disturbing case in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Sue Grafton.In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate - and film the attack. Not long after,...
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The End We Start From

Megan Hunter - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

"The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count." -- Tracy Chevalier...
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Rosie Colored Glasses: A Novel

Brianna Wolfson - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

SHE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH ROSIE COLORED GLASSES ... Rosie Collins makes everything dazzle. She's magnetic. Rex Thorpe is serious and unsentimental. Yet when the two meet, Rex is swept up in Rosie's manic tornado of love. But just as opposites attract, they also cause friction. Rosie is illuminating,...
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A Strange Scottish Shore

JULIANA GRAY - Berkley
Format: Paperback

The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure... Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia,...
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Paris by the Book: A Novel

Liam Callanan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband....
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The Throne of Caesar: A Mystery of Ancient Rome

Steven Saylor - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history: It's Rome, 44 AD, and the Ides of March are approaching.Julius Caesar has been appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate. Having pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded...
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Birdcage Walk

Helen Dunmore - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's...
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How Hard Can It Be?

ALLISON PEARSON - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical...
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Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen: A Novel

ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"A sumptuous historical novel anchored by its excellent depiction of Jane Seymour, Henry the VIII's third queen . . . This is a must for all fans of Tudor fiction and history." - Publishers Weekly Ever since she was a child, Jane has longed for a cloistered...
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Charlatans

ROBIN COOK - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts...
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House Witness

Mike Lawson - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

In House Witness, the twelfth novel in the Joe DeMarco series, Mike Lawson puts his likable protagonist on the trail of a different kind of fixer -- one whose job is to influence, and sometimes disappear, witnesses in seemingly airtight criminal cases. Minority Leader of the House...
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Go, Went, Gone

Jenny Erpenbeck - New Directions
Format: Paperback

An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language...
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Dandelions

Yasunari Kawabata - New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback

A fascinating discovery, Kawabata's unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master's last wordBeautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions - exploring love and madness - is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns...
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With You Always

Rena Olsen - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback

From the author of The Girl Before comes a tense and incisive work of psychological suspense that examines how easy it is to fall into the wrong relationship...and how impossible it can be to leave.In the wake of a painful breakup and struggling to prove herself at work, Julia feels adrift....
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Direct Fire

A J TATA - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Packed with high-powered action and stunning authenticity, the novels of Brigadier General A.J. Tata have won widespread acclaim from the bestselling masters of suspense. In Direct Fire, he brings the war on terror to America - with his hero, Jake Mahegan, caught in the crossfire. . . . A powerful...
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Clock Dance: A novel

Anne Tyler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER | A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's...
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Love and Ruin: A Novel

PAULA MCLAIN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn - a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century...
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Impossible Views of the World

Lucy Ives - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life foreverStella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever....
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Dreaming in Chocolate: A Novel

Susan Bishop Crispell - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"Come for the life-changing chocolates and opinionated apothecary table, stay for the enchanting eight-year old and complicated secrets. " --Amy Reichert, author of The Coincidence of Coconut CakeWith an endless supply of magical gifts and recipes from the hot chocolate cafe Penelope...
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs: A Novel

JANET PEERY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and clear-eyed gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with her second novel, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.On a summer evening...
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The Music Shop: A Novel

RACHEL JOYCE - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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Meet Me at the Museum: A Novel

ANNE YOUNGSON - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." -- Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"This is a work of art, dear readers....
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The Last Man in Tehran: A Novel

MARK HENSHAW - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

Decorated CIA analyst Mark Henshaw continues the "authentic, compelling, and revealing" (Jason Matthews) Red Cell series following agent Kyra Stryker who must work with retired analyst Jonathan Burke to save the CIA from being torn apart by a conspiracy of moles.New Red Cell...
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The Great Believers

REBECCA MAKKAI - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca MakkaiIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing...
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Whispers of the Dead

Spencer Kope - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A series of bizarre murders -- the victims nearly unidentifiable -- forces FBI tracker "Steps" Craig to match wits with the most cold-blooded killer he's ever encountered.A pair of severed feet, stored in a portable a cooler, is found in the house of a Federal judge in El Paso....
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The Italian Party: A Novel

CHRISTINA LYNCH - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny page-turner about "innocent" Americans abroad in 1950s Siena"Imagine Beautiful Ruins plus horses; Toujours Provence with spies, a mystery and sex. The Italian Party is a fizzy,...
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After the End of the World

Jonathan L Howard - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century.The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In this world, the Cold War never happened because the Soviet Union ceased to exist...
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The Lost for Words Bookshop: A Novel

Stephanie Butland - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie ButlandLoveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there...
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Never Coming Back

Alison McGhee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondacks town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a loving but fiercely independent woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, and so Clara built a new life for herself, far from her roots and the world she had always...
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The Wolves of Winter: A Novel

TYRELL JOHNSON - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A captivating tale of humanity pushed beyond its breaking point, of family and bonds of love forged when everything is lost, and of a heroic young woman who crosses a frozen landscape to find her destiny. This debut novel is written in a post-apocalyptic tradition that spans The Hunger...
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The Washington Decree: A Novel

Jussi Adler-Olsen - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos."The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about."...
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The Philosopher's Flight: A Novel

TOM MILLER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Rarely does a novel begin with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesn't loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through ... Miller's writing is intoxicating and one doesn't need to be a fantasy or sci-fi fan to adore this book." - Kim Curtis,...
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Elmet

Fiona Mozley - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE "Elmet is a quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable." - The Economist"Mozley is the breakout star of this year's Man Booker Prize longlist. And with good reason: Elmet, with its rugged landscape,...
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Fast Falls the Night

Julia Keller - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Based on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's latest Bell Elkins novel Fast Falls the Night takes place in a single 24-hour period, unfurling against the backdrop of a shattering personal revelation that will change Bell's life forever.The first drug overdose comes...
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Death of an Honest Man

M. C. Beaton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.DEATH OF AN HONEST MANNobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer...
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Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations

Matt Bellassai - Atria/Keywords Press
Format: Hardcover

From the break-out star of BuzzFeed and the People's Choice Award-winning comedian behind the web series "Whine About It" and "To Be Honest" comes a collection of hilariously anguished essays chronicling awful moments from his life so far, the humiliations of being...
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The Summer List: A Novel

Amy Mason Doan - Graydon House
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of Judy Blume's Summer Sisters, The Summer List is a tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later - until the clues expose a breathtaking secret that just might shatter them once...
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The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel

Elizabeth Leiknes - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film...
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An Onshore Storm: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure

DEWEY LAMBDIN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From reigning master of martime fiction Dewey Lambdin comes the latest in the Alan Lewrie naval series, An Onshore Storm, where Lewrie will take on his roughest adventure: maritime life beyond the navyFor over twenty years, Dewey Lambdin's devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan...
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Raising the Dad: A Novel

Tom Matthews - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"A fearless, angry, brutally funny poke in the eye of the American music machine and pop culture industry. Tom Matthews memorable, highly readable first novel is that rare literary artifact - a satire with teeth." - Tom Perrotta on Like We CareRaising the Dad is a small masterpiece...
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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Entertainment Weekly * Goodreads * Esquire * Elle * Cosmopolitan *BBC * Huffington Post * Bustle * Southern Living * Newsday * Bookish * Nylon * iBooks Store "Transcendent . . . Triumphant . . . Gorgeous."-Elle...
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So Much Life Left Over: A Novel

LOUIS DE BERNIERES - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two world wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I.They...
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In the Fall They Come Back

Robert Bausch - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly observed prep school novel about fraught teacher-student relationships--and about coming into adulthood.Ben Jameson begins his teaching career in a small private school in Northern Virginia. He is idealistic, happy to have his first job after graduate school, and hoping some...
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Best Intentions: A Novel

Erika Raskin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Marti Trailor -- social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman -- is ready to go back to work. She's thrilled when the perfect opportunity falls in her lap. The catch? The job is at her husband's hospital and he seems not to share her enthusiasm....
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Straying: A Novel

Molly McCloskey - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From "an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read" (Rachel Cusk, The Telegraph) , this intimate, quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair.Alice,...
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Deadly Cure: A Novel

Lawrence Goldstone - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable new historical thriller by New York Times notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone that evokes the New York City of 1899. In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms....
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Remind Me Again What Happened

Joanna Luloff - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"There is a smudge where my memory is supposed to be." Claire wakes in a hospital room in the Florida Keys. She has no idea how she got there or why. The loss of so many memories is paralyzing. Some things she can piece together by looking at old photos saved by her husband, Charlie,...
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We Begin Our Ascent

Joe Mungo Reed - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"A dazzling debut by an exciting and essential new talent: fast, harrowing, compelling, masterfully structured, genuinely moving. Reed is a true stylist." - George Saunders "Joe Mungo Reed's unforgettable debut novel introduces us to a powerful new literary voice, as riveting...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled." - Margaret Atwood via Twitter "A page turner ... one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart." - The New York...
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The City of Lost Fortunes

BRYAN CAMP - John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding...
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The Trick: A Novel

Emanuel Bergmann - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing.In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When...
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Halsey Street

- Little A
Format: Hardcover

A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong - not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father....
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The Liar's Girl

CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College -- and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just...
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The Bedlam Stacks

Natasha Pulley - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback

An Indie Next PickNow in paperback, Natasha Pulley's "witty, entrancing novel . . . burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) .In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury...
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The Anomaly

Michael Rutger - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Not all secrets are meant to be found.If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at least a passing resemblance to Nolan Moore -- a rogue archaeologist hosting a documentary series derisively dismissed by the "real" experts, but beloved of conspiracy theorists.Nolan...
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway

RUTH WARE - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel.On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial...
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Dead Girl Running

Christina Dodd - HQN
Format: Paperback

I have three confessions to make:1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead.2. I don't remember an entire year of my life.3. My name is Kellen Adams...and that's half a lie.Girl running...from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear....
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The Phantom Tree

Nicola Cornick - Graydon House
Format: Paperback

"My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another."Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait - supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter...
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Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors

CONN IGGULDEN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Witness the rise of the Tudor dynasty -- in this concluding volume to Conn Iggulden's vigorous and commanding retelling of the Wars of the Roses.England, 1470. A divided kingdom cannot stand.King Edward of York has been driven out of England. Queen Elizabeth and her children tremble...
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Liar in the Library, The

SIMON BRETT - Crme de la Crime
Format: Hardcover

When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new Fethering mystery.Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven?t...
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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel

LEAH WEISS - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

"[A] striking debut..." -- BUSTLE "...masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon." -- BOOKLIST , STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta...
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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel

ISABEL ALLENDE - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala...
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Beach House Reunion

MARY ALICE MONROE - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of new beginnings,...
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The Runaways: A Novel

Sonya Terjanian - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

"A story for anyone who has ever felt lost, isolated, or fantasized about reinventing herself - and isnt that all of us?" - Jenny Rosenstrach, New York Times Bestselling author of Dinner: A Love StoryIvy is on the run. She is finally ready to trade in a dead-end future of college...
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The Other Sister

SARAH ZETTEL - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters. One murder plan.Everyone thought reckless, troubled Geraldine Monroe was the bad sister - especially when she fled town after her mother's death twenty-five years ago. But people don't know the truth. Marie Monroe knows. She was there for their father's cruel punishments,...
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Silk and Song

Dana Stabenow - Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover

Beijing, 1322. Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny - if she has one - lies with her grandfather,...
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Colorado Boulevard: A Crush Mystery (Crush Mysteries, 3)

Phoef Sutton - Prospect Park Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in an action-packed, humor-filled mystery/thriller series perfect for fans of Lee Childs Jack Reacher"A smart, noirish mystery loaded with clever dialogue and vivid characters. The Crush series is as good as it gets." -- Kirkus (starred review) When Zerbe, the honorary...
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The Shape of Bones

DANIEL GALERA - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A coming of age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists, an author writing in the footsteps of "Roberto Bolao, Jim Harrison, the Coen brothers and...Denis Johnson" (The New York Times) You know there's good...
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Solar Bones

Mike McCormack - Soho Press
Format: Hardcover

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen...
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Sirens: A Novel

Joseph Knox - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The breathtakingly propulsive and stunningly assured debut thriller, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane The mission is suicide. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle...
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Alternative Remedies for Loss

Joanna Cantor - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A slyly funny coming-of-age novel about a young woman fumbling her way into the mysteries of loss and the travails of adulthood as she tries to make sense of a vanished mother's legacy. When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving...
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Sail Away

Celia Imrie - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback

The deliciously effervescent new novel from Celia Imrie, beloved character actress and author of Not Quite Nice, follows the exploits of two women on a cruise ship.The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty--even...
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