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ANDREW SEAN GREER - Back Bay Books/Little
Format: Print book

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
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The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick) "This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna...
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When the Men Were Gone: A Novel

MARJORIE HERRERA LEWIS - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson - a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas - comes to life."A wonderfully touching and beautiful...
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Autumn: A Novel

Ali Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. It is the first installment of her Seasonal quartet - four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are) - and it casts...
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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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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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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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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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Clock Dance: A novel

Anne Tyler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER | A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's...
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The Patchwork Bride

Sandra Dallas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of A Quilt for Christmas comes the irrepressible story of a runaway bride. Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be - her granddaughter June - unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling...
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays

Amy Meyerson - Park Row
Format: Hardcover

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of Summer 2018 Selection by Philadelphia Inquirer and Library Journal"Part mystery and part drama, Meyerson uses a complex family dynamic in The Bookshop of Yesterdays to spotlight the importance of truth and our need for forgiveness." - Associated...
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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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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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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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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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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribesOur...
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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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The Great Believers

REBECCA MAKKAI - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca MakkaiIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing...
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

DONALD HALL - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

New essays from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny,"* from the former poet laureate of the United States * New York TimesDonald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York...
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Prairie Fires: The Life and Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder

CAROLINE FRASER - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book seriesMillions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls -- the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation...
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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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The War Outside

Monica Hesse - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A stunning novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal from Monica Hesse, the Edgar Award-winning and bestselling author of Girl in the Blue CoatIt's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado--until...
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A Place for Us: A Novel

FATIMA FARHEEN MIRZA - SJP for Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belongingA Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown...
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The Mars Room: A Novel

RACHEL KUSHNER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Gritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled." - Margaret Atwood via Twitter "A page turner ... one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart." - The New York...
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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

Meg Wolitzer - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Ultra-readable." -Vogue "Equal parts cotton candy and red meat, in the best way." -People "Wolitzer's social commentary can be as funny as it is queasily on target." -Wall Street Journal "Wolitzer is one of those rare...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Paperback

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage...
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Heart Berries: A Memoir

TERESE MAILHOT - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"Heart Berries is an epic take -- an Iliad for the indigenous. It is the story of one First Nation woman and her geographic, emotional, and theological search for meaning in a colonial world...Terese is a world-changing talent, and I recommend this book with 100% of my soul."...
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The Lost Family: A Novel

JENNA BLUM - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"The Lost Family is an extraordinary read, the kind of book that makes you sob and smile, the kind that gives you hope ... . It is compassionate, masterful and disturbingly contemporary." - Tatiana de Rosnay, bestselling author of Sarah's KeyThe New York Times bestselling author...
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Pachinko

MIN JIN LEE - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST National BestsellerRoxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington PostIn this bestselling, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew."There...
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The Italian Teacher

TOM RACHMAN - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The Italian Teacher is a marvel--an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last." Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherA...
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

John Leland - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America's oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's fastest-growing...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDRE III DUBUS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel she cannot...
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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 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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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance

Bill McKibben - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

"I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact." -Bernie SandersA book that's also the beginning...
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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel

EMILY GIFFIN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the riveting new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. . . . "An unpredictable page-turner...
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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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Tangerine

Christine Mangan - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable roommates - havent spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their...
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Barbara Ehrenreich - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL CAUSES describes how we over-prepare...
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The Music Shop: A Novel

RACHEL JOYCE - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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Crimson Lake: A Novel

Candice Fox - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

"Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place - this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!" -- Lee ChildCrimson Lake by Sydney-based, Ned Kelly award-winning author Candice...
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The Rules of Magic

Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City...
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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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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra - Hogarth; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Awards Longlist SelectionA New York Times and Washington Post bestsellerA story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Two doctors risk everything to save...
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The Story of Arthur Truluv

Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Book

For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform...

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Severance: A Novel

Ling Ma - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan...
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Kathleen Rooney - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

"Transporting ... witty, poignant and sparkling." -- People (People Picks Book of the Week) "Prescient and quick....A perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal." -- Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary ... hilarious ... Elegantly written, Rooney...
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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with...
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Kudos: A Novel

RACHEL CUSK - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos.A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma...
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Virgil Wander

LEIF ENGER - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie house owner...
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The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

LIV CONSTANTINE - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train." - Library Journal (starred review) The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple,"...
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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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There There: A novel

Tommy Orange - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning...
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Manhattan Beach: A Novel

Jennifer Egan - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICK Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue,...
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel

HANK GREEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly...
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise ... The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." - Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris BookshopDon't...
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Look Alive Out There: Essays

Sloane Crosley - MCD
Format: Hardcover

"Sloane Crosley does the impossible. She stays consistently funny and delivers a book that is alive and jumping." -- Steve Martin From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There -- a brand-new collection of essays filled with...
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The Perfect Nanny: A Novel

Leïla Slimani - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"Is The Perfect Nanny the next Gone Girl? This author's book on a killer nanny is next year's must-read." - The Telegraph The #1 international bestseller and winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt - the first book by a Moroccan...
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The Only Story: A novel

JULIAN BARNES - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually and suddenly moving in the opposite direction.Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean...
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The People We Hate at the Wedding

GRANT GINDER - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"It's for the same audience that flocked to The Nest, Where'd You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of, Crazy Rich Asians." -- Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians"Sinfully good."...
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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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Dear Mrs. Bird: A Novel

A J Pearce - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

"A marvelous treat. Charming and delightful." - Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina An irresistible debut set in London during World War II about an adventurous young woman who becomes a secret advice columnist - a warm, funny, and enormously moving story for fans of The...
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Still Me: A Novel

JOJO MOYES - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You, Louisa ClarkLouisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship...
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Small Fry

LISA BRENNAN-JOBS - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents -- artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs -- Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father...
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Miss Burma

CHARMAINE CRAIG - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny...
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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads,...
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Red Clocks: A Novel

LENI ZUMAS - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Hardcover

Five women. One question. What is a woman forIn this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five...
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Bearskin: A Novel

James A McLaughlin - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling - filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's writing...
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Women in Sunlight: A Novel

FRANCES MAYES - Crown
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and written with Frances Mayes's trademark warmth, heart, and delicious descriptions of place, food, and friendship, Women in Sunlight is the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives over the course...
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Untitled Memoir

STEPHEN CARTER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York...
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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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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A) "Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading."...
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Laurentian Divide: A Novel

Sarah Stonich - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can't thaw...
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Future Home of the Living God: A Novel

LOUISE ERDRICH - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.The world...
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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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She Would Be King: A Novel

Wayétu Moore - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Sarah Jessica Parker and the American Library Association Book Club Central Official SelectionA novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history - a dazzling retelling of Liberias formation Wayétu Moores powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberias...
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Scribe: A Novel

Alyson Hagy - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytellingA brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade. In this...
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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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Pandora's DNA

Lizzie Stark - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most...
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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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