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Here I Am: A Novel

Jonathan Safran Foer - Farrar
Format: Print book

Instant New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2016A Time Magazine Top 10 Novel of 2016A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016"Dazzling . . . A profound novel about the claims of identity, history, family, and the burdens...
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The Goddesses: A Novel

Swan Huntley - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"A haunting story of betrayal and forgiveness" (Kirkus) about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful. When Nancy and her family arrive in Kona, Hawaii,...
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Lily and the Octopus

STEVEN ROWLEY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

A national bestseller combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, "Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer" (The Washington Post) .Ted - a gay, single, struggling writer is stuck: unable to open...
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Norma: A novel

SOFI OKSANEN - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front...
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The Odds of You and Me: A Novel

Cecilia Galante - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

In the vein of Meg Donohue and Sarah Jio, Cecilia Galante's second novel delivers the powerful story of one young woman who's faced with an impossible choice - one that could have her making the biggest mistake of her life. Thirteen days. That's all Bernadette, "Bird,"...
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Setting Free the Kites

Alex George - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable....
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Girl on the Leeside: A Novel

KATHLEEN ANNE KENNEY - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective...
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Commonwealth

Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
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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 Fire by Night: A Novel

Teresa Messineo - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight - a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness of Band of Brothers...
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The Boat Rocker: A Novel

Ha Jin - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age. New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin...
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A Bridge Across the Ocean

Susan Meissner - Berkley
Format: Print book

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women - past and present - in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange,...
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A Perilous Undertaking

Deanna Raybourn - Berkley
Format: Print book

"Veronica Speedwell returns in a brand new adventure from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries. London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only...
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In the Unlikely Event

Judy Blume - Vintage
Format: Mass Market Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In her first adult novel since Summer Sisters, the author of Are you There God? Its Me, Margaret takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town where she herself grew up, where a community is left reeling after a real-life tragedy when a series of airplanes...
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Odd Child Out: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

How well do you know the people you love ... ?Best friends Noah Sadler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's Feeder Canal, Abdi can't--or won't--tell anyone what happened.Just back from a mandatory leave following his last...
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Two She-Bears: A Novel

Meir Shalev - Schocken Books
Format: Print book

One of Israel's most celebrated novelists - the acclaimed author of A Pigeon and a Boy - now gives us a story of village love and vengeance in the early days of British Palestine that is still being played out two generations later."In the year 1930, three farmers committed...
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The Bookshop at Water's End

Patti Callahan Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand...
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Grief Cottage

Gail Godwin - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive...
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The Red-Haired Woman: A novel

Orhan Pamuk - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water...
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The Dressmaker's Dowry: A Novel

Meredith Jaeger - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Print book

For readers of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco's gritty streets in 1876, and the other, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets...
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Flight of Dreams: A Novel

Ariel Lawhon - Anchor Books
Format: Print book

From a dazzling new voice in historical fiction, Flight of Dreams is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life.On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight. Among them are a frightened...
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How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Heather Havrilesky - Anchor
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Love and Relationships Bestseller A hilarious, frank, and witty collection of all-new responses, plus a few greatest hits, from the author of the beloved advice column "Ask Polly" in New York magazine's The Cut. Should you quit your day job to follow...
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Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons

Sophfronia Scott - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In this vivid reimagining of the French classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses, it's the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem's elite fleeing the city for Westchester County's breezier climes, two predators stalk amidst the manicured...
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The Barrowfields: A Novel

Phillip Lewis - Hogarth Pr
Format: Print book

A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fictionJust before Henry Aster's birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly returns...
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The Guineveres

Sarah Domet - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

"A first novel whose tone echoes that of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides ... This phenomenal, character-driven story is mesmerizing." --Library Journal (starred review) To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other's...
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Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

Helen Fielding - Vintage
Format: Paperback

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How to Behave in a Crowd: A Novel

Camille Bordas - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track...
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Fake Plastic Love

Kimberley Tait - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

"Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." -- Stewart O'Nan, author of West of SunsetFour millennial bright young things charge...
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The Forbidden Garden: A Novel

Ellen Herrick - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life. Every garden is a story, waiting to be told ... At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England...
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Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel ... [that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America...
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J. Gaines - Random House Audio
Format: Paperback

A courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order - in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady...
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A Quilt for Christmas: A Novel

Sandra Dallas - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

With rich historical detail and vibrant characters, A Quilt for Christmas is the perfect novel about the bonds of family and the true meaning of sacrifice, from New York Times bestselling author SANDRA DALLAS It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband, Will, has joined the Kansas Volunteers...
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Nine Women, One Dress: A Novel

Jane L. Rosen - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her ex-boyfriend; Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years; and Andie is a cynical private detective who specializes in cheating husbands. For these three women, as well as many others - a young model fresh from...
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Refuge: A Novel

Dina Nayeri - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Rich and colorful ... [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere." -New York TimesThe moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary...
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Human Acts: A Novel

Han Kang - Hogarth Pr
Format: Print book

From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly...
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If We Were Villains: A Novel

M L Rio - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments." -- Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times...
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The Day I Died: A Novel

Lori Rader-Day - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance - at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy...
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All That's Left to Tell

Daniel Lowe - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe's debut imagines what the stories we tell reveal...
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Lucky Boy

Shanthi Sekaran - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy."Sekaran has written a page-turner that's touching and all too real." - People"A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds...
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It Happens All the Time: A Novel

Amy Hatvany - Atria Books
Format: Print book

From master storyteller Amy Hatvany - whose writing has been hailed as "gripping and emotionally honest" (Stephanie Evanovich, New York Times betselling author) - comes a provocative and compelling novel about two friends whose lives are changed by a drunken kiss.I...
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal....
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The Stolen Marriage

Diane Chamberlain - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's...
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Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

Tilar J Mazzeo - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A New York Post Best Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fall 2016 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler - the "female Oskar...
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places: A Novel

JENNY D WILLIAMS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones.The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait...
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The Reason Youre Alive: A Novel

M Quick - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

The New York Times best-selling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. After 68-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests...
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Close Enough to Touch: A Novel

Colleen Oakley - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

A March 2017 Indie Next Pick From the author of Before I Go comes an evocative, poignant, and heartrending exploration of the power and possibilities of the human heart, perfect for fans of the emotional novels of Jojo Moyes and Jodi Picoult.Love has no boundaries... Jubilee...
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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel

Laurie Frankel - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." -- Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesThis is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives...
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Relativity

Antonia Hayes - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A "beautifully written, heartbreaking" (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned."Original,...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls - "think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl" (TheSkimm) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have...
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Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

An astonishing and powerful new novel from PEN/Hemingway finalist Vaddey Ratner.Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician"...
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Love Warrior: A Memoir

GLENNON DOYLE MELTON - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 Selection"Riveting ... a worthy investment ... this book has real wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry...
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The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel

Ann Claycomb - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations...
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The Woman Next Door: A Novel

Yewande Omotoso - Picador
Format: Paperback

Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction * A Finalist for the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize * One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch * One of The Millions' and Refinery 29's Most Anticipated Books of the Year * One of the Best Black Heritage Reads (Essence...
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Summer That Melted Everything

Tiffany McDaniel - Griffin
Format: Paperback

The devil comes to Ohio in Tiffany McDaniels breathtaking and heartbreaking literary debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything.. *Winner of The Guardians 2016 "Not the Booker" Prize and the Ohioana Readers Choice Award*Goodreads Choice Award nominee for "Best Fiction"...
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The White Princess

PHILIPPA GREGORY - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book

From queen of royal fiction (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth...
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The Tumbling Turner Sisters: A Novel

Juliette Fay - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

For fans of Orphan Train and Water for Elephants, a compelling historical novel from "one of the best authors of women's fiction" (Library Journal) . Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudeville, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure - and a last-ditch...
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby: A Novel

Cherise Wolas - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." -- A.M. HomesI viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do -- work...
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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin - Farrar
Format: Print book

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016"Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despairhas a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottledsilver." This Close to Happy -- Merkin's rare, vividly...
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The Dirty Book Club

Lisi Harrison - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clique series comes a novel about the importance of friendship, and, of course, the pleasure of a dirty book.M.J. Starks life is picture-perfect - she has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life...
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Paper Hearts

Meg Wiviott - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

A forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this "beautifully told true story about brave young women who refused to be victims and walked out of Auschwitz with their heads unbowed" (School Library Journal) .An act of defiance....
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The Map That Leads to You

Joseph Monninger - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Romantic and unforgettable." -- Nicholas SparksA romantic, vivid novel that takes place in the tender time of a young woman's life: Heather has graduated from college and is traveling around Europe with her two best friends. She's left school responsibility behind and adult...
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The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

Roland Merullo - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable. What happens...
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel

Jennifer Ryan - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A delightful debut." - People For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II.As England becomes enmeshed...
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All Is Not Forgotten: A Novel

WENDY WALKER - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOBIt begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young...
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Spoonbenders: A novel

Daryl Gregory - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A NEBULA AWARD FINALISTONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity." - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need...
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Die Young with Me: A Memoir

Rob Rufus - Touchstone Books
Format: Print book

In the tradition of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes the incredibly moving true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days.Punk's not dead in rural West...
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Lover: A Novel

Anna Raverat - Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar
Format: Print book

You can learn a lot about a husband by reading his e-mail -- sometimes, too muchKate -- a wife, a mother of two, and a senior executive at a multinational hotel company -- has made caring for others her life's work, and she's good at it. But when she opens her husband's computer...
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Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend

Steve Paul - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind...
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The Beautiful Dream of Life: A Novel

DOMINGO ZAPATA - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From celebrated painter Domingo Zapata comes an evocative, immersive, and at times satirical portrait of a renowned contemporary artist who, while grappling with the intersection of his art, his life, and the world he lives in, begins to slip further and further into delusion.World renowned...
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The signal flame : a novel

Andrew Krivak - Scribner
Format: Paperback

"The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak--a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss...
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Second Glance: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Pocket Books
Format: Paperback

"A mesmerizing tale of love and second chances" (Booklist) , bestselling author Jodi Picoult crafts an intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal.One day in Vermont, an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki...
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The Golden Legend: A novel

Nadeem Aslam - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother...
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I Found You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"Jewell is a wonderful storyteller. Her characters are believable, her writing is strong and poetic, and her narrative is infused with just enough intrigue to keep the pages turning. Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love." - Library Journal...
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Are You Sleeping: A Novel

Kathleen Barber - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case - and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is...
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The Young Wives Club: A Novel

Julie Pennell - Atria Books
Format: Print book

In Toulouse, Louisiana finding your one true love happens sometime around high school. If you're lucky, he might be the man you thought he was. But as four friends are about to find out, not every girl has luck on her side in this charming debut novel perfect for fans of The Divine Secrets...
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison...
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Hame: A novel

ANNALENA MCAFEE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather. Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write...
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A novel

EMILY CULLITON - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything...
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The Original Ginny Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Ludwig - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

READ THE BOOK CRITICS ARE RAVING ABOUT!"A brilliant debut." - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project"A heartwarming and unforgettable page-turner." - BOOKLIST , starred review"A powerful affirmation of the fragility...
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

CLAIRE DEDERER - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother...
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The Madeleine Project

Clara Beaudoux - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

"Simply magical. . . . Words and images, magnified in this book, are woven together in small strokes to create two moving portraits of women." -Lire A young woman moves into a Paris apartment and discovers a storage room filled with the belongings of the previous owner, a certain...
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One of the Boys: A Novel

Daniel Magariel - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A "gripping and heartfelt" (The New York Times Book Review) story about two young brothers contending with the love they have for their abusive father, One of the Boys is a stunning, compact debut by a major...
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I Am Watching You

Teresa Driscoll - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert....
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