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New & Notable Fiction July 2024
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Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (release date 7/9)In denial that they're all still affected by their wealthy businessman father's kidnapping back in 1980, the Fletcher siblings must face desperate questions about how much their family's wealth has played a part in both their successes and failures. The second novel from the author of Fleishman is in Trouble.
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All This and More by Peng Shepherd (release date 7/9)From the author of The Cartographers comes a novel about a woman who wins the chance to rewrite every mistake she's ever made, and how far she'll go to find her elusive “happily ever after.”
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The Briar Clubby Kate Quinn (release date 7/9)In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (release date 7/9)In 1891 Montana, Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker, and Polly Gillspie, the new bride of an extremely devout mine captain, fall madly in love and strike out on a stolen horse. But with a posse of deranged gunmen in hot pursuit, the choices they make will haunt them forever.
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The Summer Pactby Emily Giffin (release date 7/9)Ten years after they made a pact, promising to always be there for each other in their times of need, Hannah, when one of the happiest moments of her life is suddenly turned upside down, calls on her closest friends, and together, they embark on a shared journey of self-discovery, forgiveness and acceptance.
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Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu (release date 7/30)With his marriage on the verge of collapse, journalist Mamush returns to his close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C., where a death in the family leads him on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask.
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (release date 7/2)In 1975, when a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared just like her brother 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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The Bright Sword : A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman (release date 7/16)Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance.
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State of Paradiseby Laura Van den Berg (release date 7/9)Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Named a Most Anticipated book of the year by TIME, Oprah Daily, The Boston Globe, ELLE, Bustle, and Lit Hub.
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The History of Sound : Stories by Ben Shattuck (release date 7/9)A collection of 12 stories set across three centuries, from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond, examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed for generations.
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