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The dollhouse : a novel
by Fiona Davis
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist. Reading guide online. A first novel.
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Mischling : a novel
by Affinity Konar
Twin sisters fight to survive the evils of World War II and the Holocaust.
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Behold the dreamers : a novel
by Imbolo Mbue
Two marriages, one immigrant working class and the other from the top one percent, are shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets and the 2008 recession. A first novel.
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When watched : stories
by Leopoldine Core
A debut story collection by the award-winning author of Veronica Bench is set in and around New York City, where protagonists ranging from sex workers and artists to lovers and friends explore their authentic senses of identity and sexuality against a backdrop of cultural disadvantages.
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War and turpentine
by Stefan Hertmans
A Flemish man draws on his grandfather's journals to piece together the story of the elder's experiences as an artist, soldier, disappointed lover, family man and survivor of World War I. Reading-group guide available.
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The runaway wife : a novel
by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
An American hiker, vacationing in the alps, meets three French sisters who are on a quest to retrieve their mother, who has escaped to the mountains to get away from her cheating politician husband's latest scandal.
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The perfect girl
by Gilly Macmillan
Fighting to start over after serving time for her role in a fatal accident, teen musical prodigy Zoe is horrified when her mother is found dead after a career-launching recital, in a high-suspense tale told over the course of 24 hours. By the author of New York Times best-selling author of What She Knew.
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The Kid : a novel
by Ron Hansen
A western novel breathes life into the story of Billy the Kid, from his childhood working as a ranch hand who developed an amazing dexterity for firing six-shooters and was attractive, smart and well-spoken, but also had a penchant for money, horses and finding trouble.
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The imperial wife
by Irina Reyn
Struggling with the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband, Russian art specialist Tanya Kagan organizes an auction for a priceless artifact with ties to an infamous 18th-century woman who may have faced the same issues in her own marriage. By the author of What Happened to Anna K.
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The fortunes
by Peter Ho Davies
Inhabiting four lives - a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption - the author of The Welsh Girl captures and capsizes over a century of U.S. history.
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Shelter in Place
by Alexander Maksik
A recent college graduate with his whole life in front of him becomes sidelined when his mother murders someone and becomes a folk hero whose actions were those of a righteous rebellion. By the author of A Marker to Measure Drift.
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Leave me : a novel
by Gayle Forman
A harried working mom who is so busy that she fails to recognize the signs of a heart attack leaves the family that resents helping her recover and gradually confronts the painful secrets she has been ignoring. A first adult novel by the award-winning author of If I Stay.
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Intimations : stories
by Alexandra Kleeman
This collection of unsettling stories explores birth, life and death and includes tales about taming a feral child and surviving a house party by knowing the difference between real and fake blood.
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Fates and traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A reimagining of the life of Lincoln's assassin by the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker describes Booth's tumultuous childhood on a Maryland farm and rise to the ballrooms of D.C. at the sides of four women before he became obsessed with avenging the Confederacy.
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Because I'm watching
by Christina Dodd
Struggling to build the courage to commit suicide to escape the horrors of his past, veteran Jacob finds his life turned upside-down by a local eccentric who drives her car through the front of his house and who hides her own traumas. By the best-selling author of Obsession Falls.
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Ark
by Julian Tepper
Ben Arkin, patriarch of the family, is an artist who has never sold a piece. His children, Sondra, Doris, and Oliver run a record label that has never produced a hit, and that Ben and his wife have bankrolled. When Doris strikes out to form her own label, Sondra sues the entire Arkin family, setting about a series of events that ultimately lead to their demise. The story is told primarily from the perspective of Oliver's daughter, Rebecca, an attorney who might be the only redeeming member of the Arkin family. Rebecca attempts to keep the family from collapsing, while trying desperately to extricate herself from their grasp.
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