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Mercury Pictures Presents

A Novel

by Anthony Marra

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

Critics' Consensus:

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A ...

Jackie & Me

by Louis Bayard

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen her before.

Properties of Thirst

by Marianne Wiggins

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the ...

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

A Novel

by Patti Callahan Henry

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed.

Shrines of Gaiety

A Novel

by Kate Atkinson

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War--a city fizzing with money, glamour, and corruption--in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal

Elektra

A Novel

by Jennifer Saint

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A spellbinding reimagining of the story of Elektra, one of Greek mythology's most infamous heroines, from Jennifer Saint, the author of the beloved international bestseller, Ariadne.

Trust

by Hernan Diaz

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception.

I Must Betray You

by Ruta Sepetys

Hardcover: Feb 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Critics' Consensus:

A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray.

Theatre Of Marvels

A Novel

by Lianne Dillsworth

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Set amid the bustle of Victorian London, an irresistible story of an ambitious young Black actress, an orphan from the slums who has finally achieved a dubious stardom as "The Great Amazonia, a savage African queen" - but everything she has fought ...

The Foundling

A Novel

by Ann Leary

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test when they meet years later at a controversial institution - one as an employee; the other,...

Take My Hand

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Apr 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.

The Lincoln Highway

A Novel

by Amor Towles

Hardcover: Oct 2021 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Fiction Award

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America.

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