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The Goddesses: A Novel

Swan Huntley - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"A haunting story of betrayal and forgiveness" (Kirkus) about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful. When Nancy and her family arrive in Kona, Hawaii,...
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The Familiar, Volume 5: Redwood

MARK Z DANIELEWSKI - Pantheon
Format: Paperback

The Season One finale of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves. The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . .The Familiar Volume...
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My Oxford Year: A Novel

JULIA WHELAN - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Major Motion Picture Already in Development with Temple Hill EntertainmentSet amidst the breathtaking beauty of Oxford, this sparkling debut novel tells the unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to make her mark in the world and the handsome man who introduces her to an incredible...
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The It Girls: A Novel

Karen Harper - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .Together, they were unstoppable.They rose from genteel poverty,...
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If I Die Tonight: A Novel

ALISON GAYLIN - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben - with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things - an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling...
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The Days When Birds Come Back

Deborah Reed - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose "gorgeous and wise prose" (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you're done June is undoubtedly in transition. Reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled...
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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

STEPHANIE DRAY - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

"Not since I read Erik Larson's Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. [...] No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book."-Karen White, New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling...
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

MANAL AL-SHARIF - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

"A vital, inspiring book" (O, The Oprah Magazine) : a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that won Saudi women the right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second...
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Girl on the Leeside: A Novel

KATHLEEN ANNE KENNEY - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective...
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The Fire by Night: A Novel

Teresa Messineo - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight - a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness of Band of Brothers...
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Look for Her: A Novel

Emily Winslow - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Everyone loves a beautiful missing girl ... "Look For Her ratchets up the tension while also offering moments of sheer grace."-Riley Sager, bestselling author of Final Girls"Beautifully written with an expertly twisty, surprising story, this is a must-read!" - Chevy...
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Norma: A novel

SOFI OKSANEN - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front...
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Our Kind of Cruelty: A Novel

Araminta Hall - MCD
Format: Hardcover

"This is simply one of the nastiest and most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short: I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line. " --Gillian FlynnThis is a love story. Mike's love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet,...
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The Paris Secret

- William Morrow & Company

In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman's journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered. When high-powered fine art agent...
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The Baby Plan: A Novel

Kate Rorick - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In Kate Rorick's first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shake your head as you wonder where everyone's sanity went... Meet the mothers ... Nathalie Kneller: Nathalie's plan: to announce her pregnancy now that...
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Steal Away Home

Billy Coffey - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he's counting on the other to save him.Owen Cross's father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father's...
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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siecle Paris

CAROLINE WEBER - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes.Genevive Halvy Bizet Straus;...
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In the Unlikely Event

Judy Blume - Vintage
Format: Mass Market Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In her first adult novel since Summer Sisters, the author of Are you There God? Its Me, Margaret takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town where she herself grew up, where a community is left reeling after a real-life tragedy when a series of airplanes...
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Odd Child Out: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

How well do you know the people you love ... ?Best friends Noah Sadler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's Feeder Canal, Abdi can't--or won't--tell anyone what happened.Just back from a mandatory leave following his last...
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The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

Janet Beard - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II."What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old...
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The Red-Haired Woman: A novel

Orhan Pamuk - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water...
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The Bookshop at Water's End

Patti Callahan Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship's most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand...
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Seven Days of Us: A Novel

FRANCESCA HORNAK - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter - who is usually...
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The Ever After: A Novel

Sarah Pekkanen - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback

In this intricate and enthralling domestic drama, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and The Affair, the internationally bestselling author of the "gossipy page-turner" (Glamour) The Perfect Neighbors goes deep into a marriage in crisis, peeling...
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The Night She Won Miss America

Michael Callahan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, a young woman is swept up in the glamour and excitement of chasing the title of Miss America 1950 - only to vanish the night she wins. Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges'...
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Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons

Sophfronia Scott - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In this vivid reimagining of the French classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses, it's the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem's elite fleeing the city for Westchester County's breezier climes, two predators stalk amidst the manicured...
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How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

Heather Havrilesky - Anchor
Format: Paperback

A New York Times Love and Relationships Bestseller A hilarious, frank, and witty collection of all-new responses, plus a few greatest hits, from the author of the beloved advice column "Ask Polly" in New York magazine's The Cut. Should you quit your day job to follow...
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The Barrowfields: A Novel

Phillip Lewis - Hogarth Pr
Format: Print book

A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fictionJust before Henry Aster's birth, his father - outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow - reluctantly returns...
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The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Kim Fu - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp - and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway...
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Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

Helen Fielding - Vintage
Format: Paperback

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The History of Bees: A Novel

Maja Lunde - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

"Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey" (Elle) , and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this "spectacular and deeply moving" (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future,...
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Change of Heart: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things, "who delivers book after book, a winning combination of the literary and the commercial" (Entertainment Weekly) , Jodi Picoult presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and a criminal's...
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The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

Corey Mead - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption...
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The Power

NAOMI ALDERMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste...
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Two Good Dogs

Susan Wilson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Susan Wilson, the bestselling author of One Good Dog delivers another powerful novel of loyalty and love. Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It's here where she believes she'll give...
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Watch Me: A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Jody Elizabeth Gehrman - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"Riveting, chilling, and page-turning. Be prepared to stay up all night." -- New York Times bestselling author Lisa ScottolineFor fans of dark and twisty psychological thrillers, Watch Me is a riveting novel of suspense about how far obsession can go.Kate Youngblood is disappearing....
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The Tragedy of Brady Sims

Ernest J. Gaines - Random House Audio
Format: Paperback

A courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and the black man who "whipped children" to keep order - in the final novella by the beloved Ernest J. Gaines. After Brady...
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The Lost Castle: A Split-Time Romance

Kristy Cambron - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Broken-down walls and crumbled stones seemed to possess a secret language all their own. What stories would they tell, if she finally listened?Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved old woman begins speaking....
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The party : a novel

Robyn Harding - Scout Press

"In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds themselves entangled in a legal battle, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies. One invitation. A lifetime...
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Nine Women, One Dress: A Novel

Jane L. Rosen - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her ex-boyfriend; Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years; and Andie is a cynical private detective who specializes in cheating husbands. For these three women, as well as many others - a young model fresh from...
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4: Sailing Lessons: A Novel

Hannah McKinnon - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Paperback

On the shores of Cape Cod, the Bailey sisters reunite with their long-lost father for a summer of hope and forgiveness in this heartfelt novel from the author of the "sharp and evocative" (Kirkus Reviews) Mystic Summer, The Lake Season, and The Summer House, sure to appeal...
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The Price Guide to the Occult

LESLYE WALTON - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest.When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors....
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My Ex-Life

Stephen McCauley - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

National BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR, Shelf Awareness"I didn't know how much I needed a laugh until I began reading Stephen McCauley's new novel, My Ex-Life. This is the kind of witty, sparkling, sharp novel for which the verb 'chortle' was invented." -- Maureen...
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Blue Ridge Sunrise

Denise Hunter - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Former free spirit Zoe Collins swore she'd never again set foot in Copper Creek or speak to the man who broke her heart. But return she must when her beloved Granny dies, leaving the family legacy to Zoe--a peach orchard nestled at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When Zoe returns...
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The Family Next Door

Sally Hepworth - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A novel about desperate mothers, secrets among neighbors, and things women keep hidden in a suburban drama from the author of The Mother's Promise.Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets. Such is the case for Essie and her family. Essie is a new mother, but few of her friends...
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A Kind of Freedom: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

A 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "This luminous and assured first novel shines an unflinching, compassionate light on three generations of a black family in New Orleans, emphasizing...
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It Happens All the Time: A Novel

Amy Hatvany - Atria Books
Format: Print book

From master storyteller Amy Hatvany - whose writing has been hailed as "gripping and emotionally honest" (Stephanie Evanovich, New York Times betselling author) - comes a provocative and compelling novel about two friends whose lives are changed by a drunken kiss.I...
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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

Sarah Perry - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life. When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal....
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She Regrets Nothing: A Novel

Andrea Dunlop
Format: Paperback

Named a "Must-Read" by Town & Country * Elite Daily * InStyle "The love child of Gossip Girl and Crazy Rich Asians, plus the social climbing of a Gatsby party." - Refinery29 In the tradition of The Emperors Children and The House of Mirth, the forgotten granddaughter...
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A Hundred Small Lessons: A Novel

Ashley Hay - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives.When...
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places: A Novel

JENNY D WILLIAMS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones.The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait...
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The visitors : a novel

Catherine Burns - Scout Press

"With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue's Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, Catherine Burns's debut novel The Visitors explores the complex truths we are able to keep hidden from ourselves and the twisted realities that can lurk beneath even the most...
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The Stolen Marriage

Diane Chamberlain - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent.One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's...
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Wonderblood: A Novel

Julia Whicker - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States,...
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A Line Made by Walking

SARA BAUME - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize "Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in." - Colum McCann "Baume leaves nothing unturned in this dark and sometimes funny excavation of the human heart." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune...
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Beck

Mal Peet - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming.Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers...
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The Recipe Box: A Novel

Viola Shipman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling, beloved author of The Charm Bracelet spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life.Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making...
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Survivor Caf: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

ELIZABETH ROSNER - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"Survivor Caf takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer...
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The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls - "think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl" (TheSkimm) - a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have...
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Love Warrior: A Memoir

GLENNON DOYLE MELTON - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 Selection"Riveting ... a worthy investment ... this book has real wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who's ever married or plans to marry...
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The Dirty Book Club

Lisi Harrison - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clique series comes a novel about the importance of friendship, and, of course, the pleasure of a dirty book.M.J. Starks life is picture-perfect - she has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life...
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Stolen Beauty: A Novel

Laurie Lico Albanese - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback

A "powerful and important tale of love and war, art and family" (Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author) , Stolen Beauty gives voice to two remarkable women from the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, and brings to life the true story...
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

MARIO GIORDANO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Break out the prosecco! There's a new detective in town - and she's 60, sexy, wise and utterly adorable. In the first book of what promises to be a smash series, Poldi moves from Munich to Sicily, intent on cheerfully drinking herself to death with a view of the sea....
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains...
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Beyond the High Blue Air

Lu Spinney - Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audio CD

When Lu Spinney's twenty-nine-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue...
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The White Princess

PHILIPPA GREGORY - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book

From queen of royal fiction (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth...
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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby: A Novel

Cherise Wolas - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." -- A.M. HomesI viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do -- work...
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The Accident: A Novel

CHRIS PAVONE - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling and Edgar Award-winning The Expats As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden...
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Asymmetry: A Novel

Lisa Halliday - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Asymmetry is extraordinary...Halliday has written, somehow all at once, a transgressive roman a clef, a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction." - Alice Gregory, The...
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Lying in Wait: A Novel

Liz Nugent - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of Unraveling Oliver, an "unputdownable psychological thriller with an ending that lingers long after turning the final page" (The Irish Times) about a Dublin family whose dark secrets and twisted relationships are suddenly...
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White bodies : a novel

Jane Robins - Touchstone

"This chilling psychological suspense novel--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming...
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Summer That Melted Everything

Tiffany McDaniel - Griffin
Format: Paperback

The devil comes to Ohio in Tiffany McDaniels breathtaking and heartbreaking literary debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything.. *Winner of The Guardians 2016 "Not the Booker" Prize and the Ohioana Readers Choice Award*Goodreads Choice Award nominee for "Best Fiction"...
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

LISA FELDMAN BARRETT - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

"Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science." - Wall Street Journal "A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented." - Scientific American "A brilliant...
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Spoonbenders: A novel

Daryl Gregory - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A NEBULA AWARD FINALISTONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity." - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need...
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All Is Not Forgotten: A Novel

WENDY WALKER - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

"An assured, powerful novel that blends suspense and rich family drama...it is, in a word, unforgettable." --William Landay, author of DEFENDING JACOBIt begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young...
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Montpelier Parade: A Novel

Karl Geary - Catapult
Format: Paperback

Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person...
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The Honeymoon

Dinitia Smith - Other Press
Format: Paperback

Based on the life of George Eliot, famed author of Middlemarch, this captivating account of Eliot s passions and tribulations explores the nature of love in its many guises Dinitia Smith s spellbinding novel recounts George Eliot s honeymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage...
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Self-Portrait with Boy: A Novel

Rachel Lyon - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A compulsively readable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death - an image that could jumpstart her career, but would also devastate her most intimate friendship.Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer...
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Mr. Floods Last Resort: A Novel

Jess Kidd - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the "supernaturally skillful debut" (Vanity Fair) , Himself, a spellbinding romp about a caretaker and a cranky hoarder with a secret - complete with skulking saints, unresolved disappearances, greedy heirs, and a firecracker neighbor determined...
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Tell Me Lies: A Novel

Carola Lovering - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling, sexy coming-of-age story exploring toxic love, ruthless ambition, and shocking betrayal, Tell Me Lies is about that one person who still haunts you - the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn't let go of. The one you'll never forget.Lucy Albright is far from...
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The Beautiful Dream of Life: A Novel

DOMINGO ZAPATA - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From celebrated painter Domingo Zapata comes an evocative, immersive, and at times satirical portrait of a renowned contemporary artist who, while grappling with the intersection of his art, his life, and the world he lives in, begins to slip further and further into delusion.World renowned...
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Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend

Steve Paul - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind...
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American by Day

Derek B Miller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother Chief Inspector Sigrid degrd could be basking in the success of her recent...
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Millard Salter's Last Day

Jacob M Appel - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

In the spirit of the New York Times bestselling A Man Called Ove, this is the heartwarming story of a man who decides to end his life before he's too old - but then begins to reconsider when he faces complications from the world around him.In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation...
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

Carolyn Murnick - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist - two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley...
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The Animal Gazer

EDGARDO FRANZOSINI - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

A hypnotic novel inspired by the strange and fascinating life of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the fabled automaker. With World War I closing in and the Belle poque teetering to a close, Bugatti leaves his native Milan for Paris, where he encounters Rodin and casts his bronzes...
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The signal flame : a novel

Andrew Krivak - Scribner
Format: Paperback

"The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak--a heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War. In a small town in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss...
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By the Book

Julia Sonneborn - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fianc has just become the president of her college - and her new boss - in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion.Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California,...
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel

Susan Rivers - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Taut, almost unbearable suspense . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." - Booklist (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came...
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The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder: A Novel

Sarah J Harris - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia - a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds - who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.Thirteen-year-old...
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They Come in All Colors: A Novel

Malcolm Hansen - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Hansen arrives on the scene as a bold new literary voice with his stunning debut novel. Alternating between the Deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early '70s, They Come in All Colors follows a biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted...
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Are You Sleeping: A Novel

Kathleen Barber - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this inventive and twisty psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a murder case - and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter.The only thing more dangerous than a lie...is...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother...
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Lost in the Beehive: A Novel

Michele Young-Stone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

From the author of Above Us Only Sky and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, a touching new novel set in the 1960s about the power of friendship, love, and accepting your past in order to find a future.For nearly her entire life, Gloria Ricci has been followed by bees. They're...
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The Doll's Alphabet

Camilla Grudova - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback

"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque." - Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird"Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world...
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The Clay Girl

Heather Tucker - MisFit Books
Format: Print book

Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes.Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape Breton and her Aunt Mary, who is purported to eat little...
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Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

MOLLY CARO MAY - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"What a beautiful, heart-filled, and honest account of motherhood and womanhood overall. We need more brave voices like Molly Caro May's." -- Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, creators of The Business of Being Born and authors of Your Best Birth "Radiant. Bursting with wisdom...
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Cloud and Wallfish

ANNE NESBET - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport,...
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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A novel

EMILY CULLITON - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything...
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Hame: A novel

ANNALENA MCAFEE - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A rich, sultry, ambitious novel about a young American writer/curator, fleeing a crumbling marriage in New York who travels with her nine-year old daughter to one of the remote islands in the north of Scotland, birthplace of her grandfather. Commissioned to set up a museum there and to write...
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The Verdun Affair: A Novel

NICK DYBEK - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart.In 1921, two young Americans...
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Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.

DANIELLE ALLEN - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison...
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and Kirkus Prize Finalist Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Daz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.A stunning new talent...
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The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel

Laurel Davis Huber - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback

The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time -- The Velveteen Rabbit -- and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose...
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I Found My Tribe: A Memoir

RUTH FITZMAURICE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers of H is for Hawk and When Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband Simon who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe'...
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The Madeleine Project

Clara Beaudoux - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

"Simply magical. . . . Words and images, magnified in this book, are woven together in small strokes to create two moving portraits of women." -Lire A young woman moves into a Paris apartment and discovers a storage room filled with the belongings of the previous owner, a certain...
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Moon Brow

Shahriar Mandanipour - Restless Books
Format: Paperback

From "one of Irans most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier whos searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams.....
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Neon in Daylight

Hermione Hoby - Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype...
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Grief cottage : a novel

Gail Godwin - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Paperback


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I Am Watching You

Teresa Driscoll - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

An Amazon Charts bestseller.What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert....
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