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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel

Michael Zapata
Format: Hardcover(Original)

The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New OrleansIn 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It is a strange and beautiful...
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Em's Awful Good Fortune: A Novel

Marcie Maxfield - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

Part dysfunctional marriage, part global romp, this is not your typical expat story. Em's Awful Good Fortune is a deeply personal, marriage coming-apart-at-the-seams look at the struggle between a woman's desire for partnership and her need for identity. Fueled by twin demons, love...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

MARIA SEMPLE - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett*A whip-smart, hysterical dramedy about a family in crisis after the disappearance of its brilliant, misanthropic matriarch. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner;...
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Days Of Thunder (Dag Enberg, Shotgun Rider)

Peter Brandvold - Five Star Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Meet Dag Enberg, a brand-new western hero from the pen of Peter Brandvold, king of the gritty, sexy, hard-driving western!. . THE SHOTGUN RIDER. In this violent, sexy tale of bloody redemption, Dag Enberg is a shotgun rider for Arizonas Yuma Stage Line. A big, rawboned Norwegian, hes one of the best...
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A Promise of Hope

Amy Clipston - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

Take a trip to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, where you’ll meet the women of the Kauffman Amish Bakery in Lancaster County. As each woman’s story unfolds, you will share in her heartaches, trials, joys, dreams … and secrets. You’ll discover how the simplicity of the Amish...
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The Bromance Book Club

Lyssa Kay Adams - Berkley
Format: Paperback

The first rule of book club:You don't talk about book club.Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He's recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it's the final...
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Big Swiss: A Novel

Jen Beagin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist's transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues.Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson,...
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Lore Olympus: Volume Three

Rachel Smythe - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Witness what the gods do after dark in the third volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe."A refreshingly modern and surprisingly poignant take on the Hades...
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Smoke

Catherine McKenzie - Lake Union Publishing,
Format: Print book

An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful,...
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The Sea

John Banville - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The author of The Untouchable ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this" - Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory.The narrator is Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who, soon...
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