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New & Coming Soon FictionMarch 2018
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Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday
A first novel by an award-winning writer explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the early years of the Iraq War and an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers in Heathrow.
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Bachelor Girl by Kim Van AlkemadeFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 comes a fresh and intimate novel about the destructive power of secrets and the redemptive power of love--inspired by the true story of Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire owner of the New York Yankees, and his mysterious bequest in 1939 to an unknown actress, Helen Winthrope Weyant.
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The Bad Daughter : a novel by Joy FieldingEstranged from her family because of her difficulties getting along with her stepmother, Robin returns home in the aftermath of a brutal home invasion, hoping to mend fences, only to uncover horrible family secrets that may have led to the attack. By the best-selling author of See Jane Run.
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Beautiful Days : stories by Joyce Carol OatesA new collection of 13 stories by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes her Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien" and features protagonists who harbor secret inner lives and assert their independence through bold, often irrevocable acts of defiance. 20,000 first printing.
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The Château by Paul GoldbergFacing daunting prospects after losing a prestigious job, a once-successful science reporter investigates the suspicious death of his college roommate, a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, in an all-or-nothing case that is shaped by the schemes of the reporter's political dissident father.
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Daphne : a novel
by Will Boast
Born with a rare condition that causes her to suffer degrees of paralysis when experiencing intense emotion, Daphne endures a virtually solitary existence before meeting a shy, charming man who compels her to chose between safe isolation and true intimacy. A first novel.
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Driest Season : a novel by Meghan KennyA full-length novel based on the author's award-winning short story from the collection, Love Is No Small Thing, follows the experiences of a World War II-era farming family in Wisconsin whose perspectives and livelihoods are upended by a father's shattering suicide.
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The Family Next Door by Sally HepworthA new mother struggling with profound depression in the aftermath of her first child's birth hides the truth about her unhappiness before forging a friendship with an unpopular single mother and renter who chose to move to the community for a secret purpose. By the author of The Mother's Promise.
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Finding Georgina by Colleen FaulknerWhat happens after you get what you've always wanted? In Colleen Faulkner's thought-provoking and emotionally compelling novel, a mother is reunited with the daughter who was abducted as a toddler--only to face unexpected and painful challenges . . .
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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel by Amad Sa'dwHadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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Green : a novel
by Sam Graham-Felsen
Struggling with bullying in his largely segregated, working-class neighborhood in 1992 Boston, Dave, a white boy at a mostly black middle school, befriends a youth who lives in public housing and who confounds Dave's assumptions about black culture before their bond is tested by girls, family secrets and national violence. A first novel.
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Hotel Silence by Auður A. ÓlafsdóttirA lonely handyman discovers new meaning in his life when he visits a dilapidated hotel in a war-torn country.
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The Hush by John HartA tale set in the world of The Last Child finds Johnny Merrimon struggling to avoid notoriety by moving into the wilderness 10 years after the events that transformed his life and hometown, a decision that his longtime friend, Jack, fears is subjecting Johnny to malevolent forces.
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I'll Be Your Blue Sky by Marisa De los SantosThree weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman and with the help of loved ones pieces together the story of the house and her courageous benefactor. By the best-selling author of Belong to Me.
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I'll Stay by Karen DayFollows the lives of two former college friends, whose string of bad choices led into a horrific encounter while on spring break in Florida, and explores how what happened that night has affected their lives in unexpected ways.
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Indecent
by Corinne Sullivan
Accepting a teaching position at the Vandenberg School for Boys, Imogene Abney, lost in the haze of first love and unable to recognize the danger she is in, crosses the line when she has an obsessive, illicit affair with a student.
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The Invention of Ana : a novel by Mikkel RosengaardMeeting a beautiful performance artist who claims she is from a cursed Romanian family, an aspiring young writer is entranced by the woman's history-laden stories about her relatives and her experimentation with altering her perception of time by immersing herself in darkness for one month. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers by Sara AckermanHawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested.
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King Zeno
by Nathaniel Rich
A traumatized police officer, a conflicted Mafia matriarch and a talented trumpet musician cross paths in 1918 New Orleans against a backdrop of the Spanish flu, the birth of jazz and the brutal activities of an ax murderer. By the author of The Mayor's Tongue.
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy : a novel in clues by Nova JacobsReceiving a cryptic letter from her famous mathematician grandfather just before his suicide, adopted granddaughter Hazel, the owner of a struggling bookstore in Seattle, is charged with tracking down and protecting a dangerous equation before dangerous enemies can exploit it. A first novel.
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Little Reunions by Ailing ZhangA best-selling, autobiographical depiction of class privilege, bad romance, and political intrigue during World War II in China.
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The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim FuFrom 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.
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Mrs by Caitlin MacyIn the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture.Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood acquaintance who uncovers an explosive secret about Philippa's single days, and Minnie Curtis, a newcomer whose vast fortune and frank revelations about a penurious upbringing in Spanish Harlem put everyone on alert.
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My Name is Venus Black : a novel by Heather LloydFive years after committing a shocking crime that she refuses to talk about, once-passionate astronomy student Venus Black emerges from prison and changes her identity, only to discover in the face of a romantic interest, a girl like herself and a sibling's disappearance that she cannot keep running from the past. A first novel.
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Next Year in Havana by Chanel CleetonA freelance writer returns to her grandmother’s homeland to fulfill her last wish to have her ashes scattered in Havana and discovers her family history amidst Cuba’s tropical beauty and dangerous political environment.
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Promise : a novel
by Minrose Gwin
Barely surviving an F5 tornado that rips through her 1936 Mississippi hometown, an African-American laundress and great-grandmother searches for her family among the catastrophe's survivors while bonding with the traumatized teen daughter of a despised white judge. By the author of The Queen of Palmyra. 100,000 first printing.
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The Queen of Hearts by Kimmery MartinA debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years.
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Rosie Colored Glasses : a novel by Brianna WolfsonEnraged by her parents' joint-custody arrangement after she expressed a preference to live exclusively with her mother, 11-year-old Willow struggles to make sense of her changing world and loneliness when her mother's demons begin to surface and overtake her. A first novel. 150,000 first printing.
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Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin DarznikA spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny.
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The Story of Our Lives
by Helen Warner
Four best friends reunite for the holidays throughout 20 years also marked by difficult parenting dynamics, troubled marriages, an escalating addiction, questions about a child's paternity and a deeply rooted secret that threatens to tear them apart. By a Sunday Times best-selling author. Original. 70,000 first printing.
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Straying : a novel
by Molly McCloskey
Settling into married life in western Ireland, a young American woman navigates challenging cultural gaps, only to embark on a summertime affair that ends her marriage, an event that she reevaluates years later while working in war zones in different world regions. By the author of Circles Around the Sun.
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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library by Sue HalpernHead librarian Kit has her quiet existence disrupted when a local, home-schooled teen, desperate for contact with people other than her hippie parents, is arrested for shoplifting a dictionary and is forced to do community service at the library. 35,000 first printing.
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The Wedding Date by Jasmine GuilloryStranded together in an elevator during a power outage, Drew and Alexa agree to pose as a couple at an ex's wedding and discover afterwards that they are unable to forget each other.
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The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth CrookSurviving a panther attack that kills her mother and leaves her with scars, a tenacious young woman resolves to find and kill the unusually aggressive cat with the assistance of a charismatic Mexican American, a haunted preacher, her traumatized half-brother and an old hunting dog. By the award-winning author of The Night Journal. 35,000 first printing.
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White Houses : a novel by Amy BloomFor readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a love story inspired by "one of the most intriguing relationships in history"--between Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok.
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Winter Kept Us Warm : a novel by Anne RaeffUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. She's scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual, asthmatic Isaac, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.Winter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives--from Berlin to postwar Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters' lives, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living.
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Winter Sisters by Robin OliveiraWhen the two young daughters of friends killed in a late-19th-century storm vanish without a trace, a former Civil War surgeon launches a determined rescue effort that is challenged by a community that believes there is no hope and a violin student niece who returns home from Paris with a secret agenda. By the best-selling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter.
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Child of a Mad God by R. A. SalvatoreA first entry in a series by the best-selling author of Archmage follows the story of a witch's young daughter, born under a fateful Blood Moon, who finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians.
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The Gone World by Tom SweterlitschTime-travel secret agent Shannon Moss visits future time periods for clues about a Navy SEAL astronaut's murdered family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, a case that is complicated by the SEAL's and Shannon's own impact on the timeline. By the author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
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Starlings by Jo WaltonIn this intimate first collection from award-winning novelist Jo Walton (Among Others,The King's Peace,Necessity) are captivating glimpses of her subtle myths and wholly reinvented realities. An ancient Eritrean coin uncovers the secrets of lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do almost nothing. A search engine logically proceeds down the path of an existential crisis. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with ingenuity, bad poetry, and the aid of the Queen of Cats. Through eclectic stories, intriguing vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and more than a hint of magic.
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