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  • Book Jacket: The Weight of Ink
    The Weight of Ink
    Rachel Kadish
    Published 6/6/17

    Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the ...
  • Book Jacket: The Essex Serpent
    The Essex Serpent
    Sarah Perry
    Published 6/6/17

    When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow ...
  • Book Jacket: The Gypsy Moth Summer
    The Gypsy Moth Summer
    Julia Fierro
    Published 6/6/17

    On an island, time can freeze. But in the summer of 1992, young and old felt the change coming, ...

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  • Book Jacket: Spoonbenders
    Spoonbenders
    Daryl Gregory
    Published 6/27/17

    Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground ...
  • Book Jacket: If Birds Fly Back
    If Birds Fly Back
    Carlie Sorosiak
    Published 6/27/17

    Linny has kept a journal of famous disappearances ever since her sister Grace ran away in the middle...
  • Book Jacket: Quiet Until the Thaw
    Quiet Until the Thaw
    Alexandra Fuller
    Published 6/27/17

    Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and ...

Featured This Week

  • Book Jacket: Thanks for the Trouble
    Thanks for the Trouble
    Tommy Wallach
    Published 6/6/17

    Tommy Wallach, the New York Times bestselling author of the "stunning debut" (Kirkus Reviews, ...
  • Book Jacket: The Hermit
    The Hermit
    Thomas Rydahl
    Published 6/1/17

    For fans of Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene comes this bold, prize-winning literary ...
  • Book Jacket: Mischling
    Mischling
    Affinity Konar
    Published 5/30/17

    "One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin ...

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New in Hardcover

  • Book Jacket: Golden Hill
    Golden Hill
    Francis Spufford
    Published 6/27/17

    Winner of the 2017 Costa First Novel Award.

    The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction...
  • Book Jacket: Midnight at the Electric
    Midnight at the Electric
    Jodi Lynn Anderson
    Published 6/13/17

    New York Times bestselling author Jodi Lynn Anderson's epic tale - told through three unforgettable ...
  • Book Jacket: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
    The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
    Arundhati Roy
    Published 6/6/17

    A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small ...

New in Paperback

  • Book Jacket: The Other Side of the World
    The Other Side of the World
    Stephanie Bishop
    Published 6/27/17

    In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road comes a novel set in the 1960s about marriage,...
  • Book Jacket: Crossing the Horizon
    Crossing the Horizon
    Laurie Notaro
    Published 6/27/17

    Soar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro - beloved ...
  • Book Jacket: The Bones of Grace
    The Bones of Grace
    Tahmima Anam
    Published 6/27/17

    From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a ...

Top Recommendations for Book Clubs

  • Book Jacket: Commonwealth
    Commonwealth
    Ann Patchett
    Published 5/2/17

    The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells ...
  • Book Jacket: Tuesday Nights in 1980
    Tuesday Nights in 1980
    Molly Prentiss
    Published 5/2/17

    An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and their shared muse...
  • Book Jacket: The Nightingale
    The Nightingale
    Kristin Hannah
    Published 4/25/17

    Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award

    Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and ...

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