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The War Outside

Monica Hesse - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue CoatIt's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until...
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Cape May: A Novel

Chip Cheek - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

"What a treat. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. Brilliantly unsettling -- one of those books that stays with you." - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train...
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The Editor

Steven Rowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a funny, poignant, and highly original novel about an author whose relationship with his very famous book editor will change him forever--both as a writer and a son.After years of struggling as a writer in 1990s New York...
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The Ensemble: A Novel

Aja Gabel - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed each other....
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag

Lorna Landvik - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist's half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column "Ramblin's by Walt" in the Granite Creek Gazette...
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Good Riddance

ELINOR LIPMAN - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held...
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There's a Word for That

Sloane Tanen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"Engrossing, hilarious, and tender... I couldn't put it down." ---Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness ProjectA hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together--in rehab, of all places--even as each member is on the verge...
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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel

Jill Shalvis - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister,...
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Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet - four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are) - and it casts...
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues

Nova Jacobs - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down - and protect - before others can get their hands...
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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Baby Teeth: A Novel

ZOJE STAGE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

One of Entertainment Weekly's Must-Read Books for JulyPeople Magazine's Book of the Week "Gripping" -- InStyle"Propulsive." -- New York Times Book ReviewOne of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing""A...
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The Heavens

Sandra Newman - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium....
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The Night Tiger: A Novel

Yangsze Choo - Flatiron Books
Format: Print Length

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's...
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs - Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress...
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam

BRIAN VANDEMARK - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much...
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The Bookshop on the Shore: A Novel

Jenny Colgan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life...
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Milkman: A Novel

Anna Burns - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique." -- The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French...
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The Wife Between Us

GREER HENDRICKS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times Bestseller (January 2018) ! "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" -- New York Times Book Review"Buckle up, because you won't be able to put this one down."...
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The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel

Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

Joshua D Mezrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation - a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the unsettling ethical issues that haunt this miraculous lifesaving treatment. Mezrich's...
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays

Amy Meyerson - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal"Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness." - Associated...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family...
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The Storm: A Novel

ARIF ANWAR - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From an immensely talented new voice in international fiction, a sweeping tour de force that seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history.Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa...
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There There: A novel

Tommy Orange - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning...
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The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

Alicia Berensons life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of Londons most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia...
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man: A Novel

JONAS JONASSON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.What's next for Allan Karlsson? Turns out this centenarian has a few more adventures in store . . . It all begins with a hot air balloon...
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Crimson Lake

Candice Fox - Center Point Pub
Format: Hardcover

Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time thats all it took to ruin Sydney Detective Ted Conkaffeys life. Accused but not convicted of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Ted is now a free man and public enemy number one. He flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy,...
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Cherokee America

Margaret Verble - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

An epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters: A Novel

Balli Kaur Jaswal - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama - an Indian This Is Where I Leave You - about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their...
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The Last Book Party

Karen Dukess - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

*A July 2019 Indie Next List Great Read* *One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019* *An O Magazine Best Beach Read of 2019**A New York Post Best Beach Read of 2019* "The Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying...
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days. They...
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My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir

Tia Torres - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life.Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster...
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In the Blink of an Eye

Jesse Blackadder - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Intimate, raw and beautiful." -- Bryan Reardon, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Jake"A captivating, visceral, beautifully written story ... The characters were so real and relatable that I was riveted." -- Robyn Harding, international bestselling...
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Kingdom of the Blind

LOUISE PENNY - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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Another Kingdom

Andrew Klavan - Turner
Format: Hardcover

"What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.? Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?" Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is suddenly changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly...
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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small...
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It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

Lysa TerKeurst - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows readers how to live assured when life doesn't turn out like they expected.What do you do when God's timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful?Life...
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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

Maureen Stanton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't...
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Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Sarah Clarkson - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Paperback

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.Books were always Sarah Clarkson's...
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Unquiet: A Novel

Linn Ullmann - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Praised across Scandinavia as a "literary masterpiece," "spellbinding," and "magnificent," Unquiet reflects on six taped conversations the author had with her father at the very end of his life.He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything....
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Calypso

David Sedaris - Little, Brown and Company
Format: eBook

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina...
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If You Cross the River: A Novel

Geneviève Damas - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback

From celebrated Belgian author Genevive Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, Franois Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family...
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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Sujata Massey - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric...
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The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours - a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940 - a year into the war - and as German...
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Talk Southern to Me: Stories & Sayings to Accent Your Life

JULIA FOWLER - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious book that the South's very own Dolly Parton described as "fun, informative, and oh-so Southern," Talk Southern To Me is a love letter to the South, y'all. Essays 'bout charm, beauty and style, chewin' the fat, love, parenting, and more -- full of yes ma'ams...
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A Change of Time

Ida Jessen - Archipelago
Format: Paperback

A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away....
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Enchante

Gita Trelease - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Love. Magic. Revolution...Enchante is Gita Trelease's imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution."Deliciously addictive." -- Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval"A...
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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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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

JONATHAN RAUCH - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

This book will change your life by showing you how life changes.Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end?Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning journalist...
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In West Mills

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people...
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

Chelsea Fagan - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018**One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need...
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The Library Book

Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."...
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When Never Comes

Barbara Davis - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair - and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred....
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The Winter of the Witch: A Novel

KATHERINE ARDEN - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Morozko return in this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Winternight Trilogy, battling enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias,...
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Gone So Long

Andre Dubus III - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print


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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however,...
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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II

Alex Kershaw - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator and Avenue of Spies returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. Beginning in the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, The First Wave follows the remarkable men who carried...
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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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A Spark of Light: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis."Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate."...
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Rainy Day Friends: A Novel

JILL SHALVIS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

First Time in Print!Following the USA Today bestseller, Lost and Found Sisters, comes Rainy Day Friends, Jill Shalvis' moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship.Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss....
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Where the Dead Sit Talking

Brandon Hobson - Soho Press
Format: Paperback

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with...
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The Weight of a Piano: A novel

Chris Cander - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The OrchardistA tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet...
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel

Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while...
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That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

Sunita Puri - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Spiritually grounded, poetic, and brilliant . . . Puri has claimed her place in the ranks of illustrious physician-writers." --Katy Butler, author of Knocking on Heaven's DoorAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf...
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Untitled Memoir

STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...
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The Age of Light: A Novel

WHITNEY SCHARER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"Sweeping from the glamour of 1930's Paris through the battlefields of World War II and into the war's long shadow, The Age of Light is a startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist."--Celeste Ng, New...
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Ecstasy: A Novel

MARY SHARRATT - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason...
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Nine Perfect Strangers

Liane Moriarty - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesCould ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty's latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out...Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here...
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Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree

Lizzie Stark - Chicago Review Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

2015 ALA Notable Book Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? Thats not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Starks relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed...
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel

Rajeev Balasubramanyam - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

Follow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? "Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous,...
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,...
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Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller"This book is my song of the summer." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire, The Week, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Bustle, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more.One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy...
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The Tubman Command: A Novel

Elizabeth Cobbs - Arcade
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, a novel based on a thrilling chapter of Civil War history and African American history, how Harriet Tubman lead a Union raid to free 750 slaves. It's May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back...
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