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Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
Hardcover: Nov 2017
Paperback: Nov 2018

A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.

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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
by Heather Harpham
Hardcover: Aug 2017
Paperback: Nov 2018

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.

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Winter: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)
by Ali Smith
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Nov 2018

Smith's shapeshifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.

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The Music Shop: A Novel
by Rachel Joyce
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Nov 2018

A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy.

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Sometimes I Lie
by Alice Feeney
Hardcover: Mar 2018
Paperback: Oct 2018

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:
1. I'm in a coma.
2. My husband doesn't love me anymore.
3. Sometimes I lie.

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White Houses
by Amy Bloom
Hardcover: Feb 2018
Paperback: Oct 2018

The unexpected and forbidden affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok unfolds in a triumph of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Away and Lucky Us.

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The Wife Between Us
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Hardcover: Jan 2018
Paperback: Oct 2018

A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

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The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
by Daniel Alarcon
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles.

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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel
Hardcover: Oct 2018

A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy.

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Seven Days of Us: A Novel
by Francesca Hornak
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...

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Hey, Kiddo
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Hardcover: Oct 2018

Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.

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Never Coming Back
by Alison McGhee
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

Never Coming Back is a brilliant and piercing story of a young woman finding her way in life, determined to know her mother - and by extension herself - before it's too late.

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Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land
Hardcover: Sep 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

Good Me Bad Me is dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land.

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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
by Alexis Okeowo
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo - a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of ...

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The Floating World
by C. Morgan Babst
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Oct 2018

A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief.

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Five-Carat Soul
by James McBride
Hardcover: Sep 2017
Paperback: Sep 2018

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird.

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A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
by Deborah Campbell
Hardcover: Sep 2017
Paperback: Sep 2018

In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell's frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the ...

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The Age of Perpetual Light
by Josh Weil
Hardcover: Sep 2017
Paperback: Sep 2018

A dazzling new work that spans a century and eight tales of light, human progress, and the search for a better life from Josh Weil, one of "the most gifted writers of his generation" (Colum McCann), winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American ...

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The Half-Life of Everything: A Novel
by Deborah Carol Gang
Hardcover: Sep 2018

David and Kate are happily married fifty-somethings when she's diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more each day, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-...

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In the Midst of Winter
by Isabel Allende
Hardcover: Oct 2017
Paperback: Sep 2018

New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn ...

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