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 Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including - a few years later - all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John's ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.. As Jane's career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter.
Hogarth
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9780593241257
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Hardcover
Catalina
By Villavicencio, Karla Cornejo
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 is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school's elite subcultures - internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies - which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper's skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed.
One World
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9780593449097
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Hardcover
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
By Grames, Juliet
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 Italy.. Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either.. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.
Knopf
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9780593536179
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Hardcover
A Certain Kind of Starlight
By Webber, Heather
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 Fullbright can't keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she's living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance, not only to protect the secret but also her heart from the pain of losing someone else. But when her beloved aunt, the woman who helped raise her, gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it's finally time to go home again.
Forge Books
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9781250867292
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Hardcover
Death on the Tiber
By Davis, Lindsey
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: crime, corruption, squalor, and worst of all, tourists. When a barge full of those entitled creatures arrives in Rome, they hit all the touristy hot-spots (the Amphitheatre, the Capitol, the dodgy bars with dubious entertainments) before departing for the next destination - leaving behind one of their party, dead and floating in the Tiber. While the authorities first try to pass her death off as a suicide, it's quickly proved that the victim strangled to death and her body dumped.
Minotaur Books
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9781250906717
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Hardcover
Calder Country
By Dailey, Janet
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 for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, Blue Moon finds itself - and some of its most infamous residents and powerful families - at a crossroads, and in battles of their own, between hearts and minds . . .. Heir to the Hollister Ranch on his mother's side, Mason Dollarhide is back home after a five-year prison sentence for smuggling bootleg liquor. Cynical and daring, he's already up to his old tricks, having his goods trafficked to him by plane.
Kensington
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9781496744746
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Hardcover
A Jewel in the Crown
By Lewis, David
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 Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.. Caitrin Colline - a Welsh coalminer's daughter and an ardent socialist - will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine.
A John Scognamiglio Book
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9781496749093
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Hardcover
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
By Yates, Bart
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 or not that story makes any damn sense or is worth telling to anyone else.". At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.. There are days that begin like any other, only to morph through twists of fate.
A John Scognamiglio Book
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9781496750457
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Hardcover
Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine
By Votang, Thao
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 begins dating a coworker, Linh is determined to make sure he is worthy of her mother. She's seen the kind of men her mother ends up with - she grew up watching her unreliable and volatile alcoholic father as her mother worked two jobs to make ends meet. Linh is certain that her mother can't do this on her own, but what begins as genuine worry quickly turns obsessive.. Following her mother and spying on her dates becomes part of Linh's routine, especially after a university shooting at Linh's work that leaves her feeling adrift - at least her mom's dating life gives her something to focus on.
Alcove Press
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9781639107896
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Hardcover
No Road Home
By Fram, John
"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 thriller from the acclaimed author of The Bright Lands - perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Paul Tremblay, and Alex North.. For years, single father Toby Tucker has done his best to keep his sensitive young son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. But when Toby marries Alyssa Wright - the granddaughter of a famed televangelist known for his grandiose, Old Testament preaching - he can't imagine the world of religion, wealth, and hate that he and Luca are about to enter.
Liars
By Manguso, Sarah
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 Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including - a few years later - all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John's ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.. As Jane's career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter.
Catalina
By Villavicencio, Karla Cornejo
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 is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school's elite subcultures - internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies - which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper's skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed.
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
By Grames, Juliet
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 Italy.. Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either.. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions.
A Certain Kind of Starlight
By Webber, Heather
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 Fullbright can't keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she's living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance, not only to protect the secret but also her heart from the pain of losing someone else. But when her beloved aunt, the woman who helped raise her, gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it's finally time to go home again.
Death on the Tiber
By Davis, Lindsey
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: crime, corruption, squalor, and worst of all, tourists. When a barge full of those entitled creatures arrives in Rome, they hit all the touristy hot-spots (the Amphitheatre, the Capitol, the dodgy bars with dubious entertainments) before departing for the next destination - leaving behind one of their party, dead and floating in the Tiber. While the authorities first try to pass her death off as a suicide, it's quickly proved that the victim strangled to death and her body dumped.
Calder Country
By Dailey, Janet
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 for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, Blue Moon finds itself - and some of its most infamous residents and powerful families - at a crossroads, and in battles of their own, between hearts and minds . . .. Heir to the Hollister Ranch on his mother's side, Mason Dollarhide is back home after a five-year prison sentence for smuggling bootleg liquor. Cynical and daring, he's already up to his old tricks, having his goods trafficked to him by plane.
A Jewel in the Crown
By Lewis, David
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 Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.. Caitrin Colline - a Welsh coalminer's daughter and an ardent socialist - will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine.
The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
By Yates, Bart
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 or not that story makes any damn sense or is worth telling to anyone else.". At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits down to write his memoir. For Isaac, an accomplished journalist and historian, finding the right words to convey events is never a problem. But this book will be different from anything he has written before. Focusing on twelve different days, each encapsulated in a chapter, Isaac hopes to distill the very essence of his life.. There are days that begin like any other, only to morph through twists of fate.
Linh Ly is Doing Just Fine
By Votang, Thao
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 begins dating a coworker, Linh is determined to make sure he is worthy of her mother. She's seen the kind of men her mother ends up with - she grew up watching her unreliable and volatile alcoholic father as her mother worked two jobs to make ends meet. Linh is certain that her mother can't do this on her own, but what begins as genuine worry quickly turns obsessive.. Following her mother and spying on her dates becomes part of Linh's routine, especially after a university shooting at Linh's work that leaves her feeling adrift - at least her mom's dating life gives her something to focus on.
No Road Home
By Fram, John
"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 thriller from the acclaimed author of The Bright Lands - perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Paul Tremblay, and Alex North.. For years, single father Toby Tucker has done his best to keep his sensitive young son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. But when Toby marries Alyssa Wright - the granddaughter of a famed televangelist known for his grandiose, Old Testament preaching - he can't imagine the world of religion, wealth, and hate that he and Luca are about to enter.