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Slow Dance: A Novel

Rainbow Rowell - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A bright, beaming power ballad of a novel from Rainbow Rowell - the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Landline, Fangirl, and Eleanor & Park - Slow Dance tells the humorous and heartbreaking love story of best friends Shiloh and Cary from their inseparable teen years to their far-flung...
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The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Book

Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock...
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Under the Feet of Jesus

Helena Maria Viramontes - Plume
Format: Paperback

A moving and powerful novel about the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions as migrant workers in Californias fields."Viramontes depicts this world with sensuous physicality...working firmly in the social-realist...
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The Hunter: A Novel

Tana French - Viking
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and "one of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) , a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside.. It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter: A novel

Kimberly McCreight - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Reconstructing Amelia: A daughter races to uncover the truth about her mother in the wake of her mother's disappearance in this "breathless, shocking thriller." - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times best-selling author. "Kim...
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The Seventh Veil of Salome

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine - but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic. . 1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget
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The Wedding People: A Novel

Alison Espach - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew. . It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight,...
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The Golden Gate: A Novel

Amy Chua

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Hum: A Novel

Helen Phillips - S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who - after losing her job to AI - undergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillance ... but at what cost?. In a city addled by climate change and populated...
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The Same Bright Stars: A Novel

Ethan Joella - Scribner
Format: Paperback

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point.. Three generations of Schmidts have run their family's beachfront restaurant and Jack has been...
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