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New & Notable Fiction April 2024
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Funny story by Emily Henry (release date 4/23)The queen of the modern romcom returns. After being dumped for her boyfriend's lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the bestselling author of Happy Place.
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Table for two : fictions by Amor Towles (release date 4/2)The bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
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The stone home : a novel by Crystal Hana Kim (release date 4/2)A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center—a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me.
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The cemetery of untold stories : a novel by Julia Alvarez (release date 4/2)Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.
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Reboot : a novel by Justin Taylor (release date 4/23)Following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame, Justin Taylor's new novel is a raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture.
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A short walk through a wide world : a novel by Douglas Westerbeke (release date 4/2)Cursed with immortality at the age of 9, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.
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The limits by Nell Freudenberger (release date 4/9)A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year.
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Real Americans by Rachel Khong (release date 4/30)In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen sets out to find his biological father—a journey that raises more questions than answers.
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The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl (release date 4/23)Resigning herself to honor her mother's last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who's who of the 1980's Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.
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I cheerfully refuse : a novel by Leif Enger (release date 4/2)In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.
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Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez (release date 4/2)With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other's curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers : a novel by Samuel Burr (release date 4/9)Clayton Stumper might be in his twenties, but he dresses like your grandpa and fusses like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution. When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for life beyond the walls of the commune.
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