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Still Lives: A Novel

Maria Hummel - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover

A young editor at a Los Angeles art museum finds herself pulled into the strange and disturbing world of a famous artist who goes missing on the opening night of her exhibition Kim Lord is a giant in the Los Angeles art scene: avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur. And her new exhibition...
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We Begin at the End

Chris Whitaker
Format: Hardcover

Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. At school the other kids make fun of her -- her clothes are torn, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks, because she'll throw stones. Duchess might be a badass, but she's really...
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Before the Ruins: A Novel

Victoria Gosling - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Victoria Gosling's Before the Ruins is a gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Paula Hawkins and Tana French about four friends, an abandoned manor, and one fateful night that will follow them for the rest of their livesThat summer, there were four of them, all on the cusp...
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Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn - ?Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed...
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The Fire and the Ore: A Novel

Olivia Hawker - Lake Union
Format: Hardcover

Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterhood, and survival by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow.1857. Three women - once strangers - come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful,...
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Greenwood: A Novel

Michael Christie - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune - trees - from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller...
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,...
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Re Jane: A Novel

Patricia Park - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

"Re Jane is snappy and memorable, with its clever narrator and insights on clashing cultures." - Entertainment WeeklyFor Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she's been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane...
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Threads of Hope

Leslie Gould - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Tally Smucker's quiet life of reading and quilting masks her sorrow over her mother's declining health and the lack of a fulfilling future for herself. When her entire world is shaken by her free-spirited neighbor Danielle, who grew up Plain but joined the Army at eighteen, Tally's...
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So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

Claire Keegan - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a tryptic of stories about love, lust, betrayal, misogyny, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.Celebrated for her powerful short fiction,...
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