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New & Coming Soon FictionMay 2018
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All the beautiful lies : a novel by Peter SwansonDevastated when his father commits suicide days before his college graduation, Harry returns to his home in Maine, where he is baffled by the increasingly sensual attentions of a mysterious woman and his own alluring stepmother, who he comes to realize are hiding dangerous secrets. By the award-winning author of The Girl With a Clock for A Heart. 100,000 first printing.
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American by day by Derek B. MillerPolice Chief Inspector Sigrid Odegard from Norwegian by Night departs Oslo for the United States to search for her missing brother, a quest that plunges her into the political minefields and backwoods undercurrents of the Adirondacks. 50,000 first printing.
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The balcony
by Jane Delury
A century-spanning portrait—from the Belle Époque to the present day—of the inhabitants of a French village reveals the deception, despair, love and longing beneath the calm surface of their ordinary lives. 25,000 first printing.
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The beloveds by Maureen LindleyA deliciously creepy, slightly campy contemporary gothic -- think Shirley Jackson (We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Hangsaman) meets V. C. Andrews' multi-million copy Flowers in the Attic franchise -- that turns Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca on its head.
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Between Earth and Sky by Amanda SkenandoreIn Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging.
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Between me and you : a novel by Allison Winn ScotchA screenwriter and an actress in New York City fall in love, but must deal with the fallout of unequal amounts of ambition and fame in their careers. By the best-selling author of Time of My Life.
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Big Guns by Steve IsraelWhen Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of Cogsworth International Arms worries about the effects on his company. In response he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate.
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Bizarre romance : stories
by Audrey Niffenegger
The internationally best-selling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife collaborates with the illustrator of such seminal works as From Hell to present a collection of 16 different stories that explore the idiosyncratic nature of relationships in a variety of genres. 20,000 first printing.
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Brass : a novel
by Xhenet Aliu
Told in biting parallel narratives, the stories of a Lithuanian immigrant waitress and her illegitimate daughter follow the former's struggles to secure a better life and the latter's determined efforts to connect with the father she never knew. A first novel.
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The broken girls
by Simone St. James
More than 60 years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made. By the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.
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By the book : a novel by Julia SonnebornIn this re-telling of Jane Austen’s classic, Persuasion, an English professor in California fighting for tenure experiences a huge setback when her first love and ex-fiancé is hired as the college’s new president.
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Call me Zebra
by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
The last surviving member of a line of exiled, bookish anarchists, atheists and autodidacts leaves her New York home for Barcelona to retrace the journey she made years earlier with her father, only to forge an unexpected connection with a man with very different perspectives. By the award-winning author of Fra Keeler. 20,000 first printing.
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Circe by Madeline MillerA highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 75,000 first printing.
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Dead Girl Running
by Christina Dodd
Surviving a gunshot wound to the head and struggling to remember an entire year of her life, Kellan Adams finds herself on the run from a husband she hopes is dead and takes a job at a Pacific Coast resort, where she is embroiled in a murder investigation that makes her question both her past and her sanity. 10,000 first printing.
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Death of a She Devil
by Fay Weldon
Sequel to The Life and Loves of a She Devil. Tyler is a new kind of 'heroine'. He's an ultra-confident, twenty-something man. But he won't be satisfied with his life until he can transition into the ultimate symbol of power and status: a woman...
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Ecstasy : a novel
by Mary Sharratt
Coming of age in the glittering hotbed and cultural whirlwind of turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna, beautiful aspiring composer Alma Schindler loses her heart to the brilliant Gustav Mahler, who demands she give up her music as a condition for their marriage. 25,000 first printing.
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Every note played
by Lisa Genova
A once-celebrated concert pianist who is gradually succumbing to ALS is forced to accept help from the estranged wife he pushed away, a situation that forces the couple to reconcile their past before time runs out. By the best-selling author of Still Alice.
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Every Other Weekend
by Zulema Renee Summerfield
In the year following her parents' divorce, highly imaginative 8-year-old Nenny has a creeping premonition that something terrible will happen, and when this hunch comes true in the most unexpected of ways, she must deal with the fallout. 35,000 first printing.
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Exhibit Alexandra : a novel
by Natasha Bell
An abducted woman held against her will in a room suffers tortuous worries about her husband and children, who, in the wake of unsettling evidence, are led to believe she has been killed.
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Family and Other Catastrophes by Alexandra BorowitzEmily Glass knows she's neurotic. But she's got it under control. Sort of. She dons compression socks when she flies (because, you know, deep vein thrombosis) and responds to people routinely overestimating her age with more Lifespin classes and less gluten. Thankfully, she also has David, the wonderful man she'll soon call husband--assuming they can survive wedding week with her wildly dysfunctional family.
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The Family Gathering by Robyn CarrA highly anticipated latest entry in the series that includes What We Find and Any Day Now continues the story of the residents of and visitors to the rustic campground of Sullivan's Crossing. 300,000 first printing.
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Feast days
by Ian Mackenzie
A young wife relocates with her financier husband to SĂ´ Paulo, where she encounters crime, protests, refugees, gentrification and the collision of art and commerce while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.
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The female persuasion by Meg WolitzerA shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend. By the best-selling author of The Interestings.
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First person by Richard FlanaganA down-on-his-luck ghost writer penning the memoirs of a notorious con man in the six weeks before the latter's trial for a $700 million heist begins to experience a chilling psychological downward spiral that makes him question his perceptions of the truth. By the award-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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Flying at night
by Rebecca L. Brown
Learning that her abrasive hero pilot father has sustained a debilitating brain injury at the same time her young son is confirmed on the autism spectrum, Piper embarks on a journey of devotion and self-discovery while watching her son and his grandfather start to connect in near-miraculous ways. A first novel.
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Freshwater
by Akwaeke Emezi
Traces the experiences of a deeply troubled young woman who alarms her devout Nigerian family as she succumbs to multiple personality disorder and begins to display increasingly dark and dangerous traits in accordance with her fractured personalities. A first novel.
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The friend
by Sigrid Nunez
Becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends. By the award-winning author of Salvation City.
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Gateway to the moon : a novel by Mary MorrisFrom award-winning novelist Mary Morris comes the remarkable story of a remote New Mexican town coming to grips with a dark history it never imagined.
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Go Ask Fannie by Elisabeth Hyden Go Ask Fannie, readers follow the adult Blaire children, Lizzie, George, and Ruth, as they convene for a weekend visit in New Hampshire at the behest of their father, Murray. The Blaire children carry with them a host of issues, but perhaps the biggest one is that it has been more than 30 years since the accident that took their mother, Lillian, and brother, Daniel, from them. When a beloved keepsake of Lillian's, a Fannie Farmer cookbook, is discovered ruined, it is considered a travesty. As the Blaire family grapples with the present and the past, readers learn about the enigmatic Lillian, an aspiring writer, and the struggle she faced in reconciling who she wanted to be with who she needed to be.
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A guide for murdered children : a novel by Sarah SparrowWe've heard it said that there is no justice in this world. But what if there really was? What if the souls of murdered children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous killers who stole their lives? Such is the unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde, fresh out of rehab and finally able to find a job running a Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. When the two rookie cops assigned to him take an obsessive interest in a decades-old disappearance of a brother and sister, Willow begins to suspect something out of the ordinary is afoot. And when he uncovers a series of church basement AA-type meetings made up of the slain innocents, a new way of looking at life, death, murder - and missed opportunities - is revealed to him.
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The house of special purpose by John BoyneAn octogenarian haunted by his past makes one last journey home to Russia where he remembers his youth in St. Petersburg at the czar's Winter Palace and the bloody revolution that caused sweeping changes in his country and in his life.
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I was Anastasia : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
An evocative retelling of the Anastasia survival myth follows the appearance of a traumatized, badly scarred young woman who claims to be the youngest Romanov daughter, launching a half-century of questions, accusations and changing perspectives on identity as conveyed by her supporters and detractors. By the author of Flight of Dreams.
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The Italian party : a novel
by Christina Lynch
Arriving in 1956 Tuscany, newlyweds Scottie and Michael find their sensory experiences in the ancient city overshadowed by dark secrets, the disappearance of a troubled teen and unsettling revelations about their roles in a dangerous political game. A first novel.
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A Lady's Guide to Selling Out
by Sally Franson
An ambitious young woman navigates the slippery world of advertising and the just-as-perilous question of who she wants to be in the face of a hard-to-please boss, a top-secret marketing campaign and the real characters of her literary idols. A first novel.
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Lawn boy by Jonathan EvisonFaced by a life of menial prospects in the years after high school, Mike Muñoz, a young Mexican-American, attempts over and over to change his life for the better and achieve the American dream, only to be stymied by social-class distinctions and cultural discrimination. By the author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.
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Lost in the beehive : a novel by Michele Young-StoneFrom 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. As Gloria tries to outrun her past, experiencing profound love--and loss--and encountering a host of unlikely characters, including her Uncle Eddie, a hard-drinking former boyfriend of her mother's, to Madame Zelda, a Coney Island fortune teller, and Jacob, the man she eventually marries but whose dark side threatens to bring disaster, the bees remain. It's only when she needs them most that Gloria discovers why they're there. Moving from the suburbs of New Jersey to the streets of New York to the swamps of North Carolina and back again, Lost in the Beehive is a poignant novel about the moments that teach us, the places that shape us, and the people who change us.
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My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan Major Motion Picture Already in Development with Temple Hill Entertainment! Set 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 love that will irrevocably alter her future--perfect for fans of JoJo Moyes and Nicholas Sparks.
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A Nantucket Wedding
by Nancy Thayer
The long-awaited nuptials of a woman to the love of her life are thrown into turmoil and drama by family dynamics involving her daughters, including one whose husband has just revealed an affair and another who falls for her soon-to-be stepbrother. By the best-selling author of the Hot Flash Club series.
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Not that I could tell
by Jessica Strawser
An innocent weekend get-together of women friends turns sinister when the group discovers on Monday morning that one of their number has gone missing, a disappearance that places the woman's husband under suspicion and forces two of the women two reckon with personal secrets. By the author of Almost Missed You.
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The other mother : a novel by Carol GoodmanStarting a new life with her infant daughter in the Catskills, Daphne Marist, suffering from Post Partum Mood Disorder, forms an intense bond with Laurel Hobbes and, as their lives mirror one another in disturbing ways, Daphne realizes that being friends with Laurel will come at a very shocking price. By a best-selling author. 50,000 first printing.
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Other people's houses by Abbi WaxmanAnd now the author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything. At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man who is most definitely not her husband... *record scratch*. The repercussions of the affair reverberate through the four carpool families--and Frances finds herself navigating a moral minefield that could make or break a marriage.
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The overstory : a novel
by Richard Powers
A National Book Award-winning author presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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The parking lot attendant : a novel
by Nafkote Tamirat
A reviled member of a dysfunctional Ethiopian immigrant community in Boston reflects on the experiences that brought her and her introverted father to America and traces her growing bond with the community's charismatic con-man leader, whose schemes embroil her in a plot with unanticipated repercussions.
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The Magnificent Esme Wells by Adrienne SharpThe irrepressible daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl comes of age in golden-era Hollywood and a nascent Las Vegas before her beauty captures the attentions of one of the Strip's most powerful men. By the author of The True Memoirs of Little K. 50,000 first printing.
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The only story by Julian BarnesA man who ran away as a teen university student with a married woman more than twice his age reflects on how they fell in love, how he freed her from a sterile marriage and how their relationship fell apart as she succumbed to depression. By the award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
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Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-smithEvi--a classically-trained ballerina--was nine months pregnant when her husband Eamon was killed in the line of duty on a steamy morning in July. Now, it is winter, and Eamon's adopted brother Dalton has moved in to help her raise six-month-old Noah.
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Blackfish City : a novel
by Sam J Miller
When a climate-wars project involving the construction of a sophisticated floating city in the Arctic Circle begins to succumb to corruption and crime, the arrival of a woman riding an orca at the side of a polar-bear companion subtly brings together four marginalized people to stage strategic acts of resistance. By the award-winning author of the young-adult novel, The Art of Starving. 40,000 first printing
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The city of lost fortunes
by Bryan Camp
Maintaining a low profile in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, a street magician who inherited an ability to find lost things from his superhuman father, is drawn back into the world by the murder of a Fortune god to whom he owes a debt, an event that exposes a plot that threatens the city's soul. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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