Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Orbit These Deathless Shores
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Little Brown and Company 12 Months to Live
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Little Brown and Company Salt Bones
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Orbit House of Odysseus
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Random House USA Inc There Your Heart Lies
Book SynopsisAt nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Marian’s secret history—of personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s generation, of the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship—compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. Moving and deeply felt, There Your Heart Lies explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history—and passed down through generations.
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Random House USA Inc Cincuenta sombras liberadas Fifty Shades Freed
Book SynopsisLa tercera entrega de la exitosa trilogía Cincuenta sombras“La novela erótica que ha revolucionado a las mujeres de Estados Unidos”. —The New York TimesCuando la inexperta estudiante Anastasia Steele conoció al joven, seductor y exitoso empresario Christian Grey, nació entre ellos una sensual relación que cambió sus vidas para siempre. Sin embargo, desconcertada y llevada al límite por las peculiares prácticas eróticas de Christian, Ana lucha por conseguir un mayor compromiso por parte de él. Y Christian accede con tal de no perderla. Ahora, Ana y Christian lo tienen todo: amor, pasión y un mundo de infinitas posibilidades por delante. Pero Ana sabe que amar a su Cincuenta Sombras, como ella le llama, no es tarea fácil, y que estar juntos plantea un desafío que ninguno de los dos podía prever. Ana debe aprender a compartir
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Harper Perennial Stubborn Archivist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Upon a Burning Throne The Burnt Empire
Book SynopsisWhen this girl, whose father is the powerful demonlord Jarsun, is denied her claim by the interim leaders, Jarsun declares war, vowing to tear the Burnt Empire apart—leaving the young princes Adri and Shvate to rule a shattered realm embroiled in rebellion and chaos .Trade Review"Upon A Burning Throne is a tale told with masterful control over the narrative. The pace never slackens and the story is never offered up at the altar of world-building details. Upon A Burning Throne is undoubtedly a compelling read—it is one of those 'on-the-edge-of-your-seat' novels which keeps the reader hooked on right till the end. I would, therefore, recommend it to all lovers of fiction.” — A Hindu's View
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Ecco Press A Perfect Explanation
Book SynopsisFinalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA “superb debut”* novel—based on the story of the author’s grandmother—following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it. A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events—a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500—that reverberated through the generations. Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the
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Mariner Books Three Rooms
Book SynopsisA piercing howl of a novel about one young woman’s endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author “A woman must have money and a room of her own.” So said Virginia Woolf in her classic A Room of One’s Own, but in this scrupulously observed, gorgeously wrought, debut novel, Jo Hamya pushes that adage powerfully into the twenty-first century, to a generation of people living in rented rooms. What a woman needs now is an apartment of her own, the ultimate mark of financial stability, unattainable for many. Set over the course of one year, Three Rooms follows a young woman as she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she’s working as a research assistant; to a stranger’s sofa, all she can afford as a copyediting temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she’s been forced to return, jobless, even a room of her own out of reach. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protestors, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful life on her own terms, unsure if she’ll ever be able to afford to do so.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Beautiful World Where Are You
Book SynopsisAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBeautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still youngbut life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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MCD Cult Classic
Book SynopsisHilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR at the Washington Post, the BBC, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and more!One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but with the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Inverno
Book SynopsisA daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger's Franny Glass might have written a few decades into her adulthood.Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything.Inverno is a love story that stretches across decades. Inverno is also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her phone to ring, yards from where, thirty years ago, Alastair, as a boy, hid in the trees. Will he call? Won't he? The story moves the way the mind does: years flash by in an instantnow we are in the perilous world of fairy tale, now stranded anew in childhood, with its sorrows and harsh words. Ever present are the complicated negotiations of the heart.
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Random House USA Inc The Arabian Nights
Book SynopsisThe most famous of all story collections, The Arabian Nights, also known as The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, is beloved around the world. Composed of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Indian, and other sources that accumulated over hundreds of years, these fabulous stories-within-stories have long fired readers’ imaginations with an enchanted world of flying carpets, magic lamps, genies, demons, magicians and sorceresses, carnivorous giants, and bloodthirsty bandits. Translation has played a key role in the formation of The Arabian Nights as we know it, making it far more prominent in the West than it has ever been in the Arab world. Westerners’ first discovery of some of the tales in the early eighteenth century sparked a feverish thirst for more, which led to compilations that freely adapted, reconfigured, and even added to the originals. The resulting love affair with the art, architecture, literature, cuisine, and culture of the
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Man of My Dreams
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Random House USA Inc Super in the City
Book SynopsisIn this off-the-beaten-sidewalk debut, native New Yorker Daphne Uviller reveals the secrets of a sexy, story-filled Big Apple, where a mystery lurks behind every apartment door—and a savvy but slightly lost young woman unexpectedly finds herself holding the keys. In a city brimming with opportunities for heroism, twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman has often fantasized about committing acts of bravery that would make front-page news. Now she may get her big break—though it may require plunging a few toilets. When the superintendent of her parents’ Greenwich Village brownstone is led away in handcuffs, unemployed Zephyr takes over his post and unleashes her inner sleuth: discovering titillating secrets about her tenants—from a smoky-voiced Frenchwoman who entertains throngs of unsavory visitors to a moody musician who just has to be hiding something—and realizing that her new reality is far more intriguing than her imagination.Soon
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Random House USA Inc Sex and Vanity
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • The author of the international phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes us from Capri to NYC, where a young woman finds herself torn between two men—and two very different cultures.Another riveting tale of privilege, culture and romance ... extravagant fashion and deceit, resulting in one truly modern love story. —CNNOn her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can''t stand him. She can''t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can''t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can''t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte.The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blu
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Random House USA Inc Shrines of Gaiety
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Random House USA Inc Bad Cree
Book SynopsisIn this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart. —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers ClubWhen Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow''s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too—a murder of crows stalks her every m
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Random House USA Inc Again Rachel
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WW Norton & Co The Waters A Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bonnie Jo Campbell has quietly become one of our best writers. She brings news you haven’t heard before, and that’s why I read. Her new novel, The Waters, is written in prose strong and lyrical, and tells a story so deeply rooted in a specific place that the accumulation of details approaches the magical." -- Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone"Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters is a novel, a living myth, and a place.… Imagine a mash-up of Flannery O’Connor and the Brothers Grimm, of Angela Carter’s reimagined fairy tales and William Faulkner’s gothic sublime. And yet, The Waters is all Bonnie Jo. If you’ve read her, you know what I mean, how she sees and evokes us, and this land we inhabit, covered in mayapples and dogwood, cuntshells and quickmuck, with a masterful, tender objectivity. The Waters is no utopia. It is muddy and bloody; it swallows us whole and effervesces into fog. It is the magic we’d inhabit if we still believed in magic, the dream we’d have if we could sleep." -- Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frank: Sonnets"The Waters will suck you into its muddy gut and not let go.… A powerful, fragrant, readable, almost edible novel. In The Waters, Bonnie Jo Campbell, who understands the women and men of the no-longer-prosperous rural Midwest better than anyone, dreams up a marshy Northwoods township where factual flora and fauna, soil quality and agricultural practice, demographics and religious affiliation somehow share a long, dotted, antic boundary line with Oz and The Blue Fairy Book, with märchen, folkways, and ancient myth." -- Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award–winning author of Lord of Misrule"There are scenes of sadness and turmoil in Bonnie Jo Campbell’s superb new novel, but at its core is an abiding sense of wonder. We encounter that wonder in Campbell’s minute attentive-ness to her rural Michigan landscape as well as to her understanding of the complexities of the human heart. Nevertheless, for all the novel’s vividness, The Waters has an ethereal quality that we enter as if into a waking dream, and even after we turn the last page, we remain under its spell, enchanted" -- Ron Rash, author of Serena"On a swampy island in Michigan, an outcast herbalist and her granddaughter contend with traumatic family secrets and an absent mother in this vividly drawn corner of rural America." -- New York Times Book Review"For Campbell, the dose of pixie dust is thoroughly diluted in a stream of gritty reality; her style never leaves the loamy land behind[.] Once you get thoroughly sunk into the story, you’ll resent ever having to leave this matriarchal family that insists on preserving its own peculiar ways in a world determined to move on…Campbell’s most astonishing feat is bringing The Waters to a climax that abandons the fantasy of her “once upon a time” opening and yet eventually delivers us to a place of real magic we never could have anticipated." -- Ron Charles - Washington Post Book Review"Campbell has been exploring hardship, especially the hardships that independent and exploratory women have to work through, for most of her writing career. She knows that unexpected misfortunes have to be put up with, and the question is always whether to do it your own way or to give in to the people around you and embark on a life you do not want…The Waters is a thought-provoking and readable exploration of eccentricity and of all different kinds of love—familial love, romantic love, love of knowledge, love of animals and love of one’s own environment, even when it is a difficult place to live." -- Jane Smiley - Los Angeles Times Book Review"Campbell, who lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, is one of American fiction’s leading voices about rural life: the struggle to make a living, the beauty of the wild environment, the thorny and sometimes violent relationships between men and women, and the economic and industrial pressures that threaten everything…filled with vivid descriptions of the diverse flora of this wetlands, The Waters is a realistic novel with a strong thread of fairy tale running through it[.] The Waters builds toward an incredible climactic episode that addresses the great divide running through this imperiled community." -- Jim Higgins - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"If you enjoy reading about strong, independent, purposeful women who thrive in the face of adversity and in spite of serious flaws, both personal and professional, this is a book for you[.] From lurking vengeful locals with firearms to deadly snakes protected by federal law, this tale moves irresistibly to an end that fulfills the promise of the rest of the book. It also addresses some trenchant current issues that appear in the news daily but are not, in fact new, but age-old problems that continue to baffle those with prospective solutions. It is a muscular and meaningful book that should be great book group material." -- Reading the West"With its detailed portrayal of nature and its mystical elements, The Waters paints a vivid picture of life in a rural area." -- Julie Hinds - Detroit Free Press"This is a verdant, gripping, and clarion saga of home, family, and womanhood, of meaningful work and metamorphosis, of poisons and antidotes, and the urgent need for us to heal and sustain the imperiled living world that heals and sustains us." -- Donna Seaman - Booklist (starred review)"With an electrifying vocabulary all its own (here, cigarettes are coffin nails, and plant names roll off the tongue with ease), The Waters is a novel that is rife with enchantments—a classic in the making, introducing generations of heroines who are destined to be beloved." -- Michelle Schingler - Foreward (starred review)"…one of the most important voices in American fiction. " -- Rebecca Jones Schinski - Book Riot"Bonnie Jo Campbell is one of the chief practitioners of Midwestern Gothic, and the National Book Award finalist’s first novel in a dozen years is reason to rejoice. The Waters is an indelible portrait of rural Michigan and the women tough enough to live there, with writing so evocative it practically sprouts in your hands. Lush, brackish, and bracing, The Waters is not so much read as steeped in." -- The Christian Science Monitor"I especially loved all the descriptive details…[The Waters] is a wonderful winter read that has you inspired for warmer springtime weather ahead." -- Victoria Giardina - New York Post
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W. W. Norton & Company Nelson Mandelas Favorite African Folktales
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WW Norton & Co Crudo
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable, The New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, Esquire, and Bustle Best Book of 2018 “Love may not be original, but this funny, fervent novel is.”—The New YorkerTrade Review"A single moment in modernity, deconstructed by the savagely entertaining, Acker-inspired voice of Laing." -- Paris Review Daily"A narrative written with immense vitality and, miraculously, the lightest of touches." -- Deborah Levy - Wall Street Journal"Written with bristling intelligence, this debut novel… pays homage to the iconoclastic author Kathy Acker, creating a pastiche of voices and identities." -- New York Times"Breathless and gripping.… [Crudo] traps the first summer of Trump and Brexit like a fly in amber.… As a record, Crudo is perfect, and agonizing." -- NPR"[Crudo is] about the longing to escape our ossified selves—to become, if only for a moment or within the pages of a novel, someone wilder and more radically free. And in staging that longing so directly and so honestly, Olivia Laing makes Crudo>/em> her own." -- New York Times Book Review"Crudo could turn out to be a novel that we pick up years from now to remind ourselves how these times felt." -- Alexandra Schwartz - The New Yorker"Crudo seduces from the very first sentence. Laing as Acker is not a literary device—it is literary detonation.… Crudo is a hot, hot book." -- Guardian"A pretzel twist of form and meaning.… Laing strikes some terrific chords in this novel." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day I spent reading Crudo. I couldn’t put it down, and then it overwhelmed me so much I had to put it down, and then I had to pick it back up again. A beautiful, strange, intelligent novel." -- Sally Rooney - Guardian"Laing’s experiment, and it’s a good one, is to describe the world—her world, between May 17 and September 23, 2017—as precisely as she can.… [Crudo is] a short, entirely readable, and lovably eccentric book." -- The Believer - Nick Hornby
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WW Norton & Co Quartet
Book Synopsis“[Quartet’s] abiding power arises from [Jean Rhys’s] ability to convey the complex vectors of desire and repulsion that move between the characters, distorted by the intractable demands of convention, even in this supposedly liberal bohemian society.” —from the introduction by Claire MessudTrade Review"Rhys tells her story with the miraculous spontaneity of all her writing, and in the tone of one who keeps calm while reporting a catastrophe." -- Shirley Hazzard - New York Times Book Review
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WW Norton & Co More News Tomorrow
Book Synopsis“A well-tuned mandolin of a gothic adventure.” —Washington PostTrade Review"[A] mythic journey of self-discovery, held aloft by Shreve’s silken prose." -- Marilyn Stasio - New York Times Book Review"A compelling, atmospheric family drama." -- People"A tightly written family drama that still manages to pack in deeper points about racism, memory, and time." -- Elizabeth Sile - Real Simple"One of [Shreve’s] very best books." -- Elizabeth Strout, bestselling author of Olive, Again"Violent weather, inexperienced campers and the disappearance of a child make this a potent family drama." -- Elfrieda Abbe - Star Tribune"Shreve combines elements of a classic mystery novel with a contemporary psychological thriller to create a story whose surface simplicity conceals depths of emotion.… A story whose journey is as rewarding as its destination." -- Harvey Freedenberg - Shelf Awareness"Shreve creates a spooky atmosphere with stormy weather, eerie parallels between past and present, and at least one threateningly crazy woman. Even spookier is the backdrop of 20th-century racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigration feeling that are all too familiar today." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"With a keen sense of place and pacing, Shreve weaves a subtle and unrelenting pattern of malevolence in this portrait of a woman burdened by the sins of her father and sustained by her unshakable belief in his innocence." -- Booklist"In More News Tomorrow, Susan Richards Shreve gives us an unforgettable seventy-year-old heroine, Georgianna Grove, who takes her family and the reader on a journey back in time to solve the murder of her mother. Part mystery, part family drama, More News Tomorrow reveals the hatred of racism, the weight of history and grief, and the enormous generosity and grace of the human heart. I loved this book!" -- Ann Hood, best-selling author of The Book That Matters Most"I loved the way More News Tomorrow takes us into an elemental and unpredictable landscape, as it takes the novel of family life into new territory. It’s just superb fiction of great emotional authenticity, always finding the remarkable under what we assume." -- Joan Silber, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Improvement
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WW Norton & Co Site Fidelity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tracing a landscape of deserts, mountains, sagebrush, and ranches, this story collection evokes life in the contemporary American West. Boyles’s characters are steeped in a sense of connection to place and aware of the precariousness of their environment." -- The New Yorker"Shot through with a nicely fatalist sense of humor, the stories press on the touchy question of just who best speaks for today’s American West—those who, in the pioneer tradition, view it as a realm of independence and opportunity or those who feel called upon to preserve it." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"[These 10 stories] offer an unrelenting clarity... This is the real stuff, adulthood at its most complex... Boyles weaves such knowledge deep into her narratives, choosing to end many of them in the middle, in the moment just before the trouble starts. It is a deft and daring choice." -- David L. Ulin - Los Angeles Times"[Site Fidelity] offers a sometimes bleak, often funny and warm look at family and sense of place in the West... [It explores] how people form an ethos of climate justice and care for their communities and natural resources. Boyles often brings a sense of humor to this work, showing how that ethos can manifest itself alongside all the quirks and inconsistencies of the human brain." -- Erin Berger - Outside"[Boyles's] settings exist as characters in their own right, carefully detailed, possessed of complex backstories, and imbued with definite, sometimes dangerous, agency... Site Fidelity bursts with pleasures—not just its lush attention to place but its frequent moments of humor...as well as the delightful frissons of surprise that shiver off the pages each time we catch a reference to a previous story." -- Amy Hassinger - Kenyon Review"Site Fidelity is an impressive collection of stories that exudes kindness and warmth for its characters and a clear passion for its central thesis… [A] solid debut collection by a writer to watch out for." -- Taylor Griggs - Chicago Review of Books"These are tenderly, insightfully-told tales of the hardscrabble lives of women in the present-day West, their families and how nature influences those ties." -- David Steinberg - Albuquerque Journal"If we are to survive, even the next several decades, we need to feminize the myth of the American West…Claire Boyle’s stories do just that, the tenacious, unsinkable women who inhabit them no longer content to sit back and let powerful men of industry make us all extinct. For anyone who loves and grieves the West, who isn’t afraid to open their eyes and see her distress, these beautifully forged stories are as essential as water." -- Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek"In Site Fidelity, Claire Boyles explores her characters’ love for the land with as much care as she evokes the knotty loyalties within families. These masterful short stories are wise, graceful, and as unsparingly beautiful as the sagebrush-scented landscapes they explore." -- Kirstin Valdez Quade, author of The Five Wounds"Site Fidelity pulled me in from the first line and stayed with me long after I’d finished the last. This is one of those rare story collections that manages to be both unsparing and bighearted, brutal and beautiful, intimate and sweeping. Claire Boyles is a marvel, and this book is a triumph." -- Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans"Attuned to harsh, western beauty and full of unforgettable, resilient characters, Site Fidelity is a bold and deeply affecting debut collection. Boyles writes with grace, style, and tremendous compassion about family, activism, and the undeniable impact (for better or worse) human beings have on the planet." -- Kimberly King Parsons, National Book Award–longlisted author of Black Light"Site Fidelity is a masterful collection of stories set in the contemporary and complex West…Site fidelity, the tendency to return to a previously occupied location, seems rather fitting—because of its artistry and heft, this is a book I will return to again and again." -- Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction for Hell’s Bottom, Colorado"Claire Boyles grabs the myth of the American West and reinvents it…Each of her harrowing stories introduces us to a remote landscape where the world has begun to crumble—sometimes literally—and yet the beauty of these places comes through, the hope of the people who live there comes through, due to Boyle’s patient, observant eye. A compassionate, raw, unforgettable collection." -- Leigh Newman, author of Still Points North
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WW Norton & Co Small Days and Nights
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this brilliant novel is “a shattering study of disaffection and belonging” (Bidisha, Guardian).Trade Review"Tishani Doshi brings all her skills as one of the world’s best poets to this lovely, beguiling, brilliant novel." -- Gary Shteyngart, best-selling author of Lake Success"Every sentence in this achingly beautiful book carries multiple meanings that resonate across the pages. Tishani Doshi uses language like a blade, cutting through our defenses to illuminate what it means to love, and forgive, and truly exist in the life we have." -- Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King"A beautiful gem of a book full of heartbreak and joy. A deep exploration of what it is to be within family and what it is to occupy your own skin and the ebb and flow between the two." -- Nayomi Munaweera, author of What Lies Between Us"A shattering study of disaffection and belonging…[A] concise novel of staggering depth…[D]isturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary." -- Bidisha - Guardian"Radiantly written…this superb novel from Doshi ranges over family secrets, trying to do the right thing, and the sheer contingency of life in all its richness and uncertainty." -- Phil Baker - Times (UK)
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WW Norton & Co Actress A Novel
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” —Ron Charles, Washington PostTrade Review"Intoxicating.… Even while laughing at Enright’s wicked mockery, I was moved by the tenderness of her evocation of difficult love." -- Mary Gordon - New York Times"Gorgeously written fiction.… Enright’s unflinching portrait… is scrupulously developed and painfully moving." -- Wendy Smith - Boston Globe"There is something that seems effortless about Ms. Enright’s writing—an illusion, of course, but one brilliantly sustained." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"Captivating." -- Sara Resnick - The New Yorker"[A] skillfully crafted, emotionally charged novel from an expert practitioner.… Enright has given us another first-rate performance." -- Malcolm Forbes - National"A perfect jewel of a book, a dark emerald set in the Irish laureate’s fictional tiara, alongside her Man Booker Prize winner The Gathering (2007) and The Green Road (2015). Its brilliance is complex and multifaceted, but completely lucid.… Actress is a deeply humane, often darkly funny novel about the exercise of power over sexually attractive women. The grim subject matter is illuminated by Enright’s acute sensitivity to language.… Enright proves, once again, her genius." -- Ruth Scurr - Spectator"Out in force. Anne Enright, the unofficial rock star of literary fiction, cements her stardom with Actress." -- Niamh Donnelly - Irish Times"In Katherine O’Dell, her fictional fallen star of stage and screen… Enright has created a heroine as irresistible to the reader as to her audiences.… She has become a byword for contemporary Irish literary fiction at its finest." -- Lisa Allardice - Guardian"Actress absolutely enthralled me.… [An] immersive, masterful novel." -- Anya Meyerowitz - Red magazine"May I recommend Actress by Anne Enright. Her writing is always pitch perfect, but this is truly exquisite. If there is such a thing as the perfect novel, this is it." -- Nigella Lawson
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WW Norton & Co This Is Salvaged
Book SynopsisLonglisted for The Story Prize A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023 • The Frontlist, Adam Morgan's Substack, Favorite Book of 2023 • A Publishers Weekly Best Fiction of 2023 • A Best Book of Fall 2023 by Bustle. Trade Review"Vauhini Vara’s stunning and imaginative debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, made quite a splash this year. It garnered rave reviews! It was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s prestigious First Novel Prize! How exciting for us, then, that her short story collection is coming out in 2023. She’s a writer who packs a punch, and personally, I’m excited to see what magic she can conjure in the condensed form. Although we don’t know much about yet, one thing is certain: it’s something to look forward to." -- Katie Yee - Literary Hub Most Anticipated Books of 2023"Vara’s The Immortal King Rao, a show-stopping novel about a Dalit immigrant who becomes extremely powerful, and about his child, was one of my favorite books that published in 2022, and this story collection promises to be at least as good. I first read a story from this collection, “I, Buffalo,” a decade ago in Tin House. It’s a heartbreaking, somehow very funny story about alcoholism, buffalos, and metamorphosis, one I must have reread a dozen times." -- R.O. Kwon - Electric Literature"Vara illuminates the threads that bind us...Readers are regaled with tales of extinction and de-extinction, death and survival here and elsewhere." -- Hana Rivers - High Country News"Vauhini Vara is on a roll...She’s back with a short-story collection that probes the relationships between people, observing humanity in multiple stages of life with humor and keen awareness." -- Hannah Bee - San Francisco Chronicle"This collection of stories is everything. From girlhood to grief, it explores intimacy, relationships, loss, motherhood, aloneness and alienation. Vara’s writing is emotional, arresting, chilling, surprising and effortlessly radiant." -- Karla Strand - Ms. Magazine"Stories that focus on the sublime and powerful bonds humans forge with one another." -- Jessica Blough, Ajay Orona, and Elizabeth Casillas - Alta Journal"In these tales, Vara has captured the fantasies, griefs and longings of life. From keen-eyed girlhood to delusional middle-age, the characters reach for more than is possible, falter, then reach for more. This Is Salvaged is a book for readers who need clarity and hope—that is to say: everybody. Read it!" -- Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Less is Lost"It takes tremendous courage and wit to look with wonder at the darkest, most shameful places in the human heart and make them hilarious, tender, and deeply moving; Vauhini Vara, with her grand-scale compassion and moral complexity in This is Salvaged, can do this magic with astonishing ease. I've been a fan since I read the story "I, Buffalo" years ago, and am so glad to (finally!) have a collection of Vara's stories in hand to admire and love." -- Lauren Groff, author of Matrix"I finished This is Salvaged and immediately wanted to re-read it. What a ride. Vauhini Vara's writing is immersive, yielding stories that are clever and surprising, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny. A brilliant, deeply satisfying collection." -- Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies"The stories in Vauhini Vara's This Is Salvaged are brilliant, entirely human, abidingly strange. She is one of our most inventive writers of fiction, as well as visionary, with a gift for writing about grief both extraordinary and ordinary. This Is Salvaged is unforgettable." -- Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Souvenir Museum"These dazzling stories take a kaleidoscopic and ferociously tender look at loss and what people hold onto or discover in the wake of it. This is Salvaged is frank enough to introduce its characters at their strangest and most vulnerable but is as interested in the aftermath of a breaking point as the break itself, excavating from grief a fragile and honest sense of hope. Vara has written a wholly original, insightful, and powerful collection." -- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections"A haunting, moving, and wise story collection that leads us to and through the blood-slippery true nature of mourning, commitment, sisterhood, mothering, love, and death, amidst all the strangeness and lostness of the world." -- Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different"A poignant collection of stories that glimpse the salvation of human connection in the midst of modern alienation." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Vara invigorates with emotional insights, whimsy, and a precision with language. It’s a remarkable achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co The Hunters
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of The Emperor’s Children and The Burning Girl, The Hunters is “a work of near-miraculous perfection” (Miranda Seymour, New York Times).Trade Review""A marvelously subtle and poignant work, richly visualized, intensely written, compassionate without a hint of sentimentality....exceptional, a work of near-miraculous perfection."" -- Miranda Seymour - New York Times""Extremely well crafted....[Claire Messud is] a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation."" -- Alan Cheuse - San Francisco Chronicle""Messud's particular talent lies in her subtle crafting of the limits of the exile's inner world."" -- Chicago Tribune
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WW Norton & Co Adrianne Geffel
Book SynopsisThis never-before-told story of the life and work of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon is "a revealing?and at times hilarious?satire of the music business, fame, and the cult of personality" (Clea Simon, Boston Globe).Trade Review"David Hajdu knows music.... A revealing—and at times hilarious—satire of the music business, fame, and the cult of personality." -- Clea Simon - Boston Globe"Gloriously twisted.... Fans of the genre, as well as musicians, will probably enjoy Mr. Hajdu’s humor most.... That Mr. Hajdu delivers such bleak views so wittily helps make some sad truths feel satisfying." -- John Young - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Both a love letter to cultural criticism and avant-garde art, and an intimate indictment of the same." -- Taylor Poulos - Guernica"[A] playful, poignant, and often very funny oral history parody.... sophisticated satire, underneath which lurks many sharp insights into the music world." -- Adrienne Davich - Van"Adrianne Geffel is an uncommon treat: a smart parody that even detractors of the experimental are likely to welcome." -- Michael Magras - BookPage"Adrianne Geffel will be enjoyed by anyone (with a sense of humor) interested in the interface between artistic genius and the commercial world. Or just anyone with a sense of humor." -- Chris Parker - London Jazz News"David Hajdu’s super smart, super funny novel—a book about art and art-making and cultural criticism and authenticity and projection—knocked my socks off. Anyone who thinks about how we codify art and artists will dig Adrianne Geffel." -- Amanda Petrusich, author and staff writer for The New Yorker"Like The Real Life of Sebastian Knight or This Is Spinal Tap, David Hajdu’s Adrianne Geffel will become part of our cultural lexicon. This is satire at its best: painfully accurate, and utterly enjoyable." -- Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl"I absolutely adore Adrianne Geffel. For me, it’s the book of the year and an amazing new summit for David Hajdu." -- Eric Lorberer, editor, Rain Taxi"Inventive.... Hajdu’s vigorous send-up of the late-20th-century music scene sings." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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WW Norton & Co Ruthie Fear
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 High Plains Book Award in Fiction and the 2021 Montana Innovation Award In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley.Trade Review"Ruthie’s lawlessness makes her an acute observer of contradictions within herself and in the community, and Loskutoff uses tropes of the Western—vivid depictions of mountain landscapes and hunting scenes—to offer a subtle portrayal of poverty and class warfare." -- New Yorker"Loskutoff depicts the casual brutality of Ruthie’s coming-of-age, as well as its wild, precarious wonders. His characters are wholly believable, reluctantly adapting to "the massive forces shifting around them"." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"Like the exemplars of Western fiction Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner, Loskutoff grants his landscape the agency and complexity of a main character." -- Regina Marler - New York Review of Books"Loskutoff reimagines the conventional bleak and brawny novel of the Western mountains, mixing magic and realism in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, and introduces a strangely beguiling Ruthie Fear." -- National Book Review"Loskutoff hones and deepens the unique skill he showcased in his debut…a capacity for human complexity, the talent to hold beauty and ugliness at once." -- Yardenne Greenspan - Ploughshares"A powerful story about the disenfranchised…Loskutoff neither divides his characters into villains and victims nor presents them as objects of condescension or condemnation." -- Donna Henderson - Harvard Review"[A]stonishing ... a magnificent novel." -- Sarah Rachel Egelman - Bookreporter"On the surface, Ruthie Fear is a coming-of-age story that explores poverty, violence and death. But below that surface lies an examination of the shifting demographics of western Montana, where a largely white, working-class community is being displaced…even as their own world slowly implodes from poverty and climate change—and supernatural forces." -- Gabino Iglesias - High Country News"An original and shape-shifting western parable. A book full of earnest, proud, damaged, and endearing characters, each one chasing their own American Dream. Maxim Loskutoff’s writing is endowed with fearless audacity, stunning grace, and gutsy heart." -- Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs"Loskutoff captures the vast and lonely land along with its beauty with breathtaking descriptions of violence and empathy, and ends with a shocking and poignant surprise. With its humor and heart, Loskutoff’s harrowing tale offers a heroine to root for. This one hits hard." -- Publishers Weekly (starred and featured review)"Maxim Loskutoff takes the real world, the gritty realism of western mountain poverty and class warfare, and turns them inside out, infusing them with the wonderfully strange. The ancient mountain wilderness becomes a violent ecotone between two worlds that cannot coexist, and we see the inevitable catastrophic clash through the eyes of a fascinating new young hero in American fiction." -- Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane"A brilliant, gritty, and poetic novel. In Ruthie Fear, Maxim Loskutoff explores the ongoing exploitation and destruction of the natural beauty and wildlife of the American West with one of the most vivid, honest, and heartbreaking characters to appear in fiction in the last few years." -- Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff"Ruthie Fear yanks you into its urgent world, where wildness is an endangered species and wilderness is being fenced off and paved over. Maxim Loskutoff’s debut novel walks a line between the dirt and bone of the earth and the hazy nightmares of myths. Written with love and precision, this book will cling to you long after the last page." -- James Scott, author of The Kept"Meet Ruthie Fear. Once you know her, you’ll never forget her. Maxim Loskutoff maps Ruthie’s Bitterroot Valley with clarity, wisdom, and tenderness, tracking the shifting relationships between those who originally inhabited the land and those who have colonized it, those who hunt and those who are hunted. This novel will seize you by the throat from its very first pages and leave you gasping for air by its end." -- Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth"Maxim Loskutoff writes the various violences of the contemporary American West (development, extraction, racism, misogyny, and guns, guns, guns) unapologetically, unromantically, and with a razor-sharp clarity that’s like a punch to the gut. The novel not so much centers around as conjures itself out of the fierce, tender wolf cub of a girl at its center who receives, exposes, incorporates, and transmogrifies that violence. I want Ruthie Fear on my side as we descend into whatever comes next." -- Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness"A ferocious, unsettling, raging storm of a novel that captures not only a place of hauntings and heartbreaks but also a world on the precipice. This is a symphony on fire, a call for us to be better—a beautiful, glimmering song." -- Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters"The mundane and the extraordinary converge in this novel of one Montana woman’s life. … With resonant characters and a great sense of place, this novel rarely goes where you’d expect, and is stronger for it." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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WW Norton & Co Activities of Daily Living
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chen writes with cool, elegant precision... [Activities of Daily Living is] an utterly persuasive transmutation of the ordinary stuff of life." -- Steph Cha - New York Times Book Review"Engrossing... [Chen] is an elegantly reserved writer. Her novel is digressive without feeling showy, sombre yet never maudlin." -- Hua Hsu - The New Yorker"Like the work of writer Rachel Cusk, who brought new thinking to what constitutes a novel, Activities of Daily Living takes chances with the form to strong effect... In delivering a meditation on human frailty and endurance, Chen shows us how we cling to our chosen work and the hope buried within it." -- Kathryn Ma - San Francisco Chronicle"Activities of Daily Living is astringent, witty, attuned to the suddenly dimmed lighting and shrunken horizons experienced by city dwellers in early middle age... Insightful." -- Sukhdev Sandhu - 4Columns"Chen wows in this tender debut novel... [She] develops an intelligent and deeply empathic portrayal of Alice witnessing her stepfather disappearing inside himself, and in doing so offers careful and illuminating observations on issues of cultural difference, productivity, family, and freedom. Chen’s own project is masterly and memorable." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] thoughtful and thoughtfilled meditation on time... Elegiac and revealing, Chen's debut illuminates the clock in our hearts." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Highly recommend for: fans of Chen’s poetry; fans of Olivia Laing and/or Ben Lerner; anyone who’s ever found themselves consumed by art; anyone who’s fighting the very nature of time (and, really, who isn’t?)." -- Kaulie Lewis - Millions"From the making of art to the making of families, Lisa Hsiao Chen makes us realize the great beauty and courage found in everyday acts of care, work, endurance, and survival. Weaving between one daughter and her father, one artist and his work, Activities of Daily Living becomes a beguiling and brilliant meditation on what it means to live and die." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed"Brilliant, fiercely honest, and exhilarating, Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living illuminates the symbiotic relationship of art and life—the art of life, indeed. This is a riveting and memorable novel." -- Claire Messud, New York Times best-selling author of The Burning Girl"Activities of Daily Living is an exquisitely crafted archive that documents the living grief of witnessing a parent’s slow descent while summoning to life a radical genealogy of artists and writers. This novel is proof of the transformational power of art, a sublime performance that left me enchanted!" -- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Call Me Zebra and Savage Tongues"Activities of Daily Living is miraculously transformative of what it holds. Organized around the artworks of Tehching Hsieh and the act of witnessing a parent’s end of life, a circumscribed but questing narrator synthesizes the chaos and fragments of time, death, and illness into a moving and brilliant arcade—a project about exceptional and quotidian endurances weaved together via lifesaving and heartbreaking bricolage." -- Eugene Lim, author of Search History"The meditative quest that unfolds from this novel’s deceptively simple framework is as riveting as any page-turner. Filled with startling insight and moving detail, Activities of Daily Living will make you want to attend to life more fully—its joys as well as its griefs. What can literature do that other art forms can’t? This book is the answer." -- Anelise Chen, author of So Many Olympic Exertions
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WW Norton & Co The Empire of Dirt A Novel
Book SynopsisIn this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.Trade Review"Remarkable. . . . A compelling read, both disconcerting and enchanting. . . . The Empire of Dirt is a rich puzzle impossible to resist." -- Virginia Reeves - New York Journal of Books"The Empire of Dirt is as elegant and precise as it is haunting." -- The Millions"In Francesca Manfredi’s intense, mesmerizing novel, cosmic forces intersect with the domestic life of a girl and her mother and grandmother. With deceptively simple sentences, Manfredi brilliantly evokes the deep mysteries that lurk within everyday interactions. I couldn’t put this book down." -- Helen Phillips, author of The Need"An elegant and haunting story of feminine chaos and self-possession. Francesca Manfredi’s prose, in Ekin Oklap’s translation, is piercing and full of dark, honest wit." -- Catherine Lacey, author of Pew and Nobody Is Ever Missing"With her magnetic, captivating style and precise linguistic register, Francesca Manfredi leads us on a journey in discovery of ourselves, changing with the turning of the seasons." -- Stefania Massari - Huffington Post Italia"A complex and beautiful novel, with a dreamlike, poetic, but never macabre register." -- Francesca Frediani - D - la Repubblica"At once disconcerting and utterly captivating." -- Florence Courriol-Seita - Le Monde"A coming-of-age story that showcases, with powerful descriptions and poetic prose, the intergenerational clash and unspoken guilt between three women." -- Booklist"Three generations of Italian women living under one roof might be witches or might just be trying to live their lives; point of view is everything.... Valentina endeavors to make sense of her place in a world inhospitable to girls seeking freedom and within a family where secrets reign over truths. Manfredi delivers Valentina’s narrative, as translated by Oklap, in a straightforward and unapologetic tone consistent with the bravado and insecurities of adolescence. Familial truth emerges, one way or another, but it may take a few generations before it can be seen." -- Kirkus"Evocative.... The accomplished prose is a testament to Manfredi’s potential." -- Publishers Weekly
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Random House USA Inc A River of Stars
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a powerful debut about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman stakes a claim to the American dream in California.“Utterly absorbing.”—Celeste Ng • “A marvel of a first novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine • “The most eye-opening literary adventure of the year.”—Entertainment WeeklyNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Real SimpleHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the married owner, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. To ensure that his child—his first son—has every advantage, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. As Scarlett awai
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Random House USA Inc Spy
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel. At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service. Fluent in French and German, she would make the perfect secret agent. Within a year, Alex is shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick. They must never know about the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Little Nothing
Book SynopsisA Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' Most Anticipated for 2016 • 2017 Ohioana Book Award Winner in Fiction“Marisa Silver’s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just as malleable identities…Silver’s storytelling skills are finely matched to her themes…meditative passages bloom with life.” —Matt Bell, The New York Times Book Review A stunning, provocative new novel from New York Times bestselling author Marisa Silver, Little Nothing is the story of a girl, scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her.<
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale The Nutcracker
Book SynopsisHoffmann's classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalized by Tchaikovsky's ballet, is brought to life by the gorgeous contemporary artwork of Finnish illustrator Sanna Annukka, and is the perfect holiday gift for adults and children alike. The Nutcracker captures, better than any other story, a child's wonder at Christmas.On Christmas Eve, Fritz and Marie excitedly await the arrival of Godfather Drosselmeier and the marvelous gifts he brings for them every year. When Marie discovers a rather curious nutcracker doll amongst the presents, she suddenly finds herself caught up in an age-old battle and ultimately transported to a magical world of sugar-frosted castles, chocolate kings, and true love. This cloth-bound edition combines the charm of Hoffmann's original eighteenth-century tale with the freshness of Sanna Annukka's gorgeous illustrations in this striking keepsake edition that will be treasured and reread by you and your loved ones for years to come.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Proposal Reeses Book Club
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick“There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane GayThe New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn''t turn into a happy ending, thanks to a woman who knows exactly how to make one on her own...When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn''t come as a surprise—or happen in front of 45,000 people.When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn''t the hard part—they''ve only been dating for five months, and he can’t even spell her name correctly. The hard part i
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Random House USA Inc The Learning Curve
Book SynopsisHow are young women supposed to see each other clearly when they can't even see themselves? This razor-sharp novel “perfectly captures [the] power dynamics and identity issues that . . . women are forced to face.”—Marie Claire (Best Books of the Year) Fiona and Liv are seniors at Buchanan College, a small liberal arts school in rural Pennsylvania. Fiona, who is still struggling emotionally after the death of her younger sister, is spending her final college year sleeping with abrasive men she meets in bars. Liv is happily coupled and on the fast track to marriage with an all-American frat boy. Both of their journeys, and their friendship, will be derailed by the relationships they develop with Oliver Ash, a ruggedly good-looking visiting literature professor whose first novel was published to great success when he was twenty-six. But now Oliver is in his early forties, with thinning hair and a checkered pas
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Penguin Putnam Inc Surprise Me
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dominated
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Penguin Putnam Inc Kept
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Random House USA Inc Before We Were Yours
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Random House USA Inc After the Fire
Book SynopsisWhat happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves?In her stunning new novel, New York Times-bestselling author Belva Plain penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time. Once again Plain proves herself the writer who sets the standard for family stories in a novel that is at once harrowing and deeply moving. Gerald and Hyacinth had the kind of marriage others envied. She was a beautiful artist. He was a brilliant plastic surgeon. Theirs was a comfortable, happy home with two wonderful children. Then whispers of betrayal tainted Hy's perfect marriage. And in one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives Gerald the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children. When her own beautiful, angry mother wants to know why she won't fight for custody, Hy can give no answers. But deep in her heart, Hy knows there
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Penguin Putnam Inc Return to Tradd Street
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Penguin Putnam Inc Judgment Road
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