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  • Book Jacket: The Tea Planter's Wife
    The Tea Planter's Wife
    Dinah Jefferies
    Published 9/13/16

    In this lush, sexy, atmospheric page-turner, a young Englishwoman, 19-year-old Gwendolyn, marries a ...
  • Book Jacket: Darling Days
    Darling Days
    iO Tillett Wright
    Published 9/27/16

    Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age ...
  • Book Jacket: North of Crazy
    North of Crazy
    Neltje
    Published 10/4/16

    Imagine a world of Gatsby-esque glamor, opulence, and cultural prestige, of exclusive parties and ...

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  • Book Jacket: Darling Days
    Darling Days
    iO Tillett Wright
    Published 9/27/16

    Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age ...
  • Book Jacket: Time Travel
    Time Travel
    James Gleick
    Published 9/27/16

    Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and ...
  • Book Jacket: Brightwood
    Brightwood
    Tania Unsworth
    Published 9/27/16

    Daisy Fitzjohn knows there are two worlds: the outside world and the world of her home, a secluded ...

Featured This Week

  • Book Jacket: Blood at the Root
    Blood at the Root
    Patrick Phillips
    Published 9/20/16

    A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the ...
  • Book Jacket: Under the Udala Trees
    Under the Udala Trees
    Chinelo Okparanta
    Published 9/20/16

    Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, ...
  • Book Jacket: Commonwealth
    Commonwealth
    Ann Patchett
    Published 9/13/16

    The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells ...

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New in Hardcover

  • Book Jacket: The Wonder
    The Wonder
    Emma Donoghue
    Published 9/20/16

    In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe ...
  • Book Jacket: Blood at the Root
    Blood at the Root
    Patrick Phillips
    Published 9/20/16

    A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the ...
  • Book Jacket: Sun, Sand, Murder
    Sun, Sand, Murder
    John Keyse-Walker
    Published 9/13/16

    Written with a wry, witty narrative voice and a plot full of twists and turns, John Keyse-Walker's ...

New in Paperback

Top Recommendations for Book Clubs

  • Book Jacket: Purity
    Purity
    Jonathan Franzen
    Published 8/2/16

    A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom
  • Book Jacket: Jade Dragon Mountain
    Jade Dragon Mountain
    Elsa Hart
    Published 7/5/16

    On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already ...
  • Book Jacket: Lily and the Octopus
    Lily and the Octopus
    Steven Rowley
    Published 6/7/16

    Combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life ...

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