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  • Book Jacket: Safe with Me
    Safe with Me
    Amy Hatvany
    Published 3/4/14

    A "compelling and thought-provoking" (Kristin Hannah) novel about two mothers and one daughter who ...
  • Book Jacket: Precious Thing
    Precious Thing
    Colette McBeth
    Published 3/4/14

    I know her inside out.  I know what she's thinking, I know what she wants. So I can't give up ...
  • Book Jacket: City of the Sun
    City of the Sun
    Juliana Maio
    Published 3/11/14

    Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo

    CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the ...

Publishing Soon

  • Book Jacket: The Visitors
    The Visitors
    Patrick O'Keeffe
    Published 3/13/14

    As he did so masterfully in the connected novellas of The Hill Road, Patrick O'Keeffe's first novel ...
  • Book Jacket: American Afterlife
    American Afterlife
    Kate Sweeney
    Published 3/15/14

    Someone dies. What happens next?

    One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ...
  • Book Jacket: Strongwood
    Strongwood
    Larry Millett
    Published 3/15/14

    The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson has fallen in love, or so he ...

Featured This Week

  • Book Jacket: The Orchard of Lost Souls
    The Orchard of Lost Souls
    Nadifa Mohamed
    Published 3/4/14

    From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia&#...
  • Book Jacket: The Spinning Heart
    The Spinning Heart
    Donal Ryan
    Published 2/25/14

    Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is ...
  • Book Jacket: The Wives of Los Alamos
    The Wives of Los Alamos
    TaraShea Nesbit
    Published 2/25/14

    The Wives of Los Alamos is a bold and emotionally charged debut novel told in the collective voices ...

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New in Hardcover

  • Book Jacket: The Blazing World
    The Blazing World
    Siri Hustvedt
    Published 3/11/14

    A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, ...
  • Book Jacket: Shotgun Lovesongs
    Shotgun Lovesongs
    Nickolas Butler
    Published 3/11/14

    Seldom has the American heartland been so richly and accurately portrayed. A rare work of fiction ...
  • Book Jacket: Redeployment
    Redeployment
    Phil Klay
    Published 3/4/14

    Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to ...

New in Paperback

  • Book Jacket: Americanah
    Americanah
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Published 3/11/14

    Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, ...
  • Book Jacket: Eighty Days
    Eighty Days
    Matthew Goodman
    Published 3/11/14

    1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite ...
  • Book Jacket: The Unwinding
    The Unwinding
    George Packer
    Published 3/4/14

    A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our ...

Top Recommendations for Book Clubs

  • Book Jacket: A Possible Life
    A Possible Life
    Sebastian Faulks
    Published 11/26/13

    From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—...
  • Book Jacket: The Aviator's Wife
    The Aviator's Wife
    Melanie Benjamin
    Published 11/26/13

    In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the...
  • Book Jacket: Give and Take
    Give and Take
    Adam M. Grant
    Published 4/9/13

    Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and ...

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