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Cave Dwellers: A novel

Richard Grant - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home...
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Lord of the Darkwood: Book 3 in the Tale of Shikanoko

Lian Hearn - Farrar
Format: Print book

A self-assured warrior stumbles into a game of Go that turns fatal. An ambitious lord leaves his nephew for dead and seizes his lands. A stubborn father forces his son to give up his wife to his older brother. A powerful priest meddles in the succession to the Lotus Throne. A woman of the Old People...
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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation...
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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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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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Lilli de Jong: A Novel

Janet Benton - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful, authentic voice for a generation of women whose struggles were erased from history - a heart-smashing debut that completely satisfies." - Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and SweetA young woman finds the most...
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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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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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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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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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Men Without Women: Stories

Haruki Murakami - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Including the story "Drive My Car" - now an Academy Award-nominated film - this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; itll move you and confuse you and sometimes...
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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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Results May Vary: A Novel

Bethany Chase - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

From Bethany Chase - whom bestselling author Emily Giffin calls "a great new voice in fiction" - comes a wise and delightfully relatable novel about a woman's journey to rebuild her life, and her heart, after a stunning betrayal. Can you ever really know the person you love?...
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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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Home Sweet Home: A novel

April Smith - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial,...
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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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This Must Be the Place: A novel

Maggie O'Farrell - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Best-selling author Maggie O'Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight and laugh-out-loud humor in what Richard Russo calls "her breakout book." Perfect for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette. Meet...
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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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Thus Bad Begins: A novel

Javier Marías - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university...
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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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Trajectory: Stories

Richard Russo - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...
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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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The Hopefuls: A novel

Jennifer Close - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships...
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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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Multiple Listings

Tracy McMillan - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

From Tracy McMillan, an author who counts both Oprah Winfrey and Tina Fey as fans, Multiple Listings is a comedic family drama focusing on a single mother whose ex-con father is released from prison after seventeen years and unexpectedly moves in with her, her son, and her much younger...
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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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Be My Wolff: A novel

Emma Richler - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

A nimble, extraordinarily moving novel about a sister and adopted brother with a one-of-a-kind connection Zachariah and Rachel Wolff are brother and sister. Well, not exactly. They are star-crossed lovers. Well, not exactly. Rachel is the cherished daughter born to a Russian family living...
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The Children: A Novel

ANN LEARY - Picador
Format: Paperback

Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the once-grand Lakeside Cottage that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister, Sally, grew up at Lakeside, their stepbrothers, Spin and Perry, were welcomed...
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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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Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years

Thomas Mallon - Vintage
Format: Print book

A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, St. Louis Post-DispatchBefore there was Reagan the conservative icon, there was Reagan the president: genial, unknowable, faced with...
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The Nix

Nathan Hill - Vintage
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores - with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness - the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.. "Hugely entertaining and unfailingly...
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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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The German Girl: A Novel

Armando Lucas Correa - Atria Books
Format: Print book

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler's List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal's harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover...
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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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In the Darkroom

SUSAN FALUDI - Picador
Format: Paperback

When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father -- long estranged and living in Hungary -- had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted...
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War and Turpentine: A novel

Stefan Hertmans - Pantheon
Format: Print book

An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story - his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War - from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien - artist,...
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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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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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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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The Years That Followed: A Novel

Catherine Dunne - Touchstone
Format: Print book

Acclaimed international bestseller Catherine Dunne's thrilling US debut is the story of two wronged women bent on revenge at all costs.Revenge is sweeter than regret ... Dublin. Calista is young, beautiful, and headstrong. When she falls in love with the charming, older Alexandros and moves...
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Madame President

Helene Cooper - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election,...

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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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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 Perfect Mistress

ReShonda Tate Billingsley - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

The daughter of an adulterous father deals with the long-rippling effects of his actions in her own love life in this emotionally powerful novel by award-winning and national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley.Lauren Robinson knows exactly what it takes to be the perfect mistress....
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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.

"In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy...

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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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Bright, Precious Things: A novel

Jay Mcinerney - Knopf
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order. Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they're living the dream that drew...
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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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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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Hold Back the Stars: A Novel

Katie Khan - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A startling and evocative novel, harkening to both One Day and Gravity, a man and a woman revisit memories of their love affair on a utopian Earth while they are trapped in the vast void of space with only ninety minutes of oxygen left.After the catastrophic destruction of the Middle East...
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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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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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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 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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Game of Queens: A Novel of Vashti and Esther

India Edghill - Picador Usa
Format: Print book

For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance. You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story...
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The Widow of Wall Street: A Novel

Randy Susan Meyers - Keywords Press
Format: Print book

A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall.Phoebe sees the fire in Jake Pierce's belly from the moment...
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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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The Blind Astronomer's Daughter

John Pipkin - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book

In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when...
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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 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 River at Night

Erica Ferencik - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

An Oprah.com Page-Turning Novels Pick A 2017 Indie Next Pick A Bustle Most Anticipated Thriller Novel of 2017 An Entertainment Weekly "Must List" Pick A high-stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of four friends...
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The Sleeping World: A Novel

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes - Touchstone
Format: Print book

"A searing, beautifully written novel that captures the exhilaration and dangers of 1970s post-Franco Spain. Mosca, a bitterly jaded young woman, goes on a harrowing search for her missing brother - and the history that destroyed their lives. Violent, heartbreaking, unforgettable,...
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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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Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Crystal King - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King's seminal debut features the man who inspired the world's oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar's reign,...
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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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The Fall of Lisa Bellow

Susan Perabo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do - when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and witness to the crime copes with the tragedy in an unforgettable...
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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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Next Year, for Sure: A Novel

Zoey Leigh Peterson - Scribner
Format: Print book

In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love.After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy....
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The Scribe of Siena

Melodie Winawer - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

"Like Outlander with an Italian accent." - Real Simple "A detailed historical novel, a multifaceted mystery, and a moving tale of improbable love." - Publishers Weekly, starred review A NEW YORK POST MUST-READ BOOK Readers of Diana Gabaldon's...
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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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The Cutaway: A Novel

Christina Kovac - 37 INK
Format: Print book

The Cutaway draws you into the tangled world of corruption and cover-up as a young television producer investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer in this stunning psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn.When brilliant TV news...
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The Good at Heart: A Novel

Ursula Werner - Touchstone
Format: Print book

Based on the author's discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning debut novel takes place over three days when World War II comes to the doorstep of an ordinary German family living in an idyllic, rural village near the Swiss border.When World War II breaks out, Edith and Oskar...
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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 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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Slightly South of Simple: A Novel

Kristy Woodson Harvey - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

From the next "major voice in Southern fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother - and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart...
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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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The Last Chance Matinee

Mariah Stewart - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only...
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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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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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