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Liars: A Novel

Sarah Manguso - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all - from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments. A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.When...
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Catalina: A Novel

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - One World
Format: Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom . When Catalina...
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The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia: A novel

Juliet Grames - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling - by turns funny and moving - novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern...
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A Certain Kind of Starlight: A Novel

Heather Webber - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next book from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, "the queen of magical small-town charm" (Amy E. Reichert) . Everyone knows that Addie...
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Death on the Tiber: A Flavia Albia Novel (Flavia Albia Series, 12)

Lindsey Davis - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In first century Rome, a murder victim found in the Tiber leads to a brutal gang war and Flavia Albia to a confrontation with her long-hated nemesis, with all that she loves in the balance.First century Rome is plagued by all the evils the have beset major cities since time immemorial:...
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Calder Country (The Calder Brand)

Janet Dailey - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Yellowstone, the Roaring 20s in America's Wild West come to vivid life in this inspiring saga of love, hope and endurance.. 1920s, Blue Moon, Montana.The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as new inventions and new roles...
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A Jewel in the Crown

David Lewis - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover

James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs in this riveting new historical caper series featuring a gifted young socialist-turned-counterespionage spy on a World War II mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself ... . 1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless...
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The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

Bart Yates - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover

Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s Utah.. "Each day is a story, whether...
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Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine: A Novel

Thao Votang - Alcove Press
Format: Hardcover

Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, this debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly's unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present, perfect for fans of Joan Is Okay and Luster.. When twenty-seven-year-old Linh Ly's recently divorced mother...
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No Road Home: A Novel

John Fram - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"A grand gothic story as enthralling as it is terrifying." - S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife's televangelist grandfather is found murdered in this unputdownable locked-room...
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