Recommended books found: 20
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A Novel
Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026
In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
A Novel
Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: May 2026
The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.
A Novel
Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: May 2026
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-...
A Novel
Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the ...
A Memoir
Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026
A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.
A Memoir
Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026
A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Hardcover: Nov 2025 | Paperback: Oct 2025
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
Hardcover: Sep 2025
From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love.
A Novel
Hardcover: Sep 2025
"A small-town novel of epic proportions" (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.
How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History
Hardcover: Aug 2025
This powerful and unflinching examination of racism in America by award-winning historian Ann Bausum deconstructs the warped history of the Civil War for teen readers, perfect for fans of Stamped, Just Mercy, and Accountable.
A Novel
Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: Aug 2026
Three people - two enslaved, one indentured - live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be.
A New Life
Hardcover: Aug 2025
A profoundly moving, ground-breaking biography that challenges the established narrative to reveal the Brontë family as they've never been seen before.
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