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  • LIARS
    LIARS
    MANGUSO, SARAH
    An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 Arguments“Painful and brilliant—I loved it.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A nuclear family can destroy a woman arti...
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  • HOW TO LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER
    HOW TO LOVE YOUR DAUGHTER
    BLUM, HILA
    “A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” —Flynn Berry, New York Times Book ReviewThe seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit wi...
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  • THIS USED TO BE US
    THIS USED TO BE US
    RENÉE CARLINO
    There are two sides to every love story—and every breakup. Get ready for an emotional roller coaster of family, marriage, and divorce that will have you both laughing and crying, from the bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers. “Hilarious, unnervingly relatable, romantic, and heartbreaking in the best way.”—Julia Stiles “This book is a gut-punch to the feels.”—Karina Ha...
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    Q. 190

  • THE LIBRARIANIST
    THE LIBRARIANIST
    PATRICK DEWITT
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland,...
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  • MORE DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    MORE DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP
    YAGISAWA, SATOSHI / OZAWA, ERIC
    In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them. Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at th...
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  • WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
    WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES
    NANCY JOOYOUN KIM
    A “propulsive and moving story of a family torn asunder by their mother’s disappearance” (Bookreporter) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee. 1999: At the end of the millennium, the Kim family is struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago. Sixty-one-year-old John Kim feels more isolated from his grown children than e...
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  • THE EXCHANGE
    THE EXCHANGE
    JOHN GRISHAM
    What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America's favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a part...
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    Q. 110

  • THE SECRET
    THE SECRET
    LEE CHILD / ANDREW CHILD
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!  A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose.1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts ...
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  • A HAPPIER LIFE
    A HAPPIER LIFE
    KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY
    “New York Times bestselling author and southern sensation Kristy Woodson Harvey” (Good Morning America) presents a touching novel about eternal love and the places we call home. The historic houses in the seaside town of Beaufort, North Carolina, have held the secrets of their inhabitants for centuries. One of the most enduring refuses to be washed away by the tide: What happen...
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  • UNDER YOUR SPELL
    UNDER YOUR SPELL
    LAURA WOOD
    The daughter of an aging rock star finds herself working for the hottest musician on the planet and is shocked when sparks start to fly—especially since she swore she’d never, ever date a celebrity—in this unputdownable romance that is perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Emily Henry.She wants three things. He isn’t one of them... Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her d...
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    Q. 220

  • SHE STARTED IT
    SHE STARTED IT
    SIAN GILBERT
    A hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a Caribbean bachelorette party that takes a sinister turn. It's Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or were, as children. Despite drifting apart in adulthood, shared s...
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  • LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS
    LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS
    KIRSTEN MILLER
    "Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books is shaping up to be this summer's Big Read. Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too."--James Patterson The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brin...
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  • AUGUST BLUE
    AUGUST BLUE
    DEBORAH LEVY
    Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperforma...
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    Q. 140

  • THE MIDNIGHT FEAST
    THE MIDNIGHT FEAST
    LUCY FOLEY
    Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin..."Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet." -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End"Everything you want in a thriller." -- Harper's Bazaar"Agatha Christie for the Instagram age." -- GuardianThe deliciously twisty new locked room murder mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling auth...
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    Q. 310

  • ONE-STAR ROMANCE
    ONE-STAR ROMANCE
    LAURA HANKIN
    A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy from Laura Hankin.Natalie and Rob couldn’t have less in common. Nat’s a messy artist, and Rob’s a rigid academic. The only thing they share is their devotion to their respective best friends—who just got eng...
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  • FOUR SQUARES
    FOUR SQUARES
    BOBBY FINGER
    From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding relief in the corner of New York City he can...
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    Q. 300

  • THE MEMO
    THE MEMO
    RACHEL DODES / LAUREN MECHLING
    "The perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny." --Airmail "A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it."--J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Commencement, Maine, and Friends and Strangers If you could rewrite your life story, would ...
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    Q. 190

  • MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES
    MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES
    RUFI THORPE
    "An audacious, wildly funny, completely unpredictable novel by a writer so singular that it's hard to compare her to anyone else . . . absolutely brilliant." --Kevin Wilson A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world--from the PEN/Faulkner...
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  • LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    LISA SEE
    *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China—perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane.According to Confucius, “an educate...
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  • ONE OF OUR KIND
    ONE OF OUR KIND
    NICOLA YOON
    Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel • A terrifying and thought-provoking look at what it means to be truly free in America as a woman uncovers a secret about her new home in a utopian community • "Brilliant, provocative, seminal...Your book club will be discussing this one for DAYS.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York...
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    Q. 190

  • EVERYTHING'S FINE
    EVERYTHING'S FINE
    CECILIA RABESS
    “Does love conquer all? Does it now? Did it ever? These are questions Cecilia Rabess asks in her nimble, discerning debut…The ending of Everything’s Fine is one of the best I’ve read in years.” —The New York TimesA painfully funny, painfully real love story for our time that doesn’t just ask will they, but…should they?Jess is a senior in college, ambitious but aimless, when she...
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  • YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE
    YOU WERE ALWAYS MINE
    PRIDE, CHRISTINE / JO PIAZZA
    The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found.Cinnamon Haynes has fo...
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  • EMILY FOREVER
    EMILY FOREVER
    MARIA NAVARRO SKARANGER / AITKEN, MARTIN
    In this novel about poverty,social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarketworker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet. Em's nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out "to take care of something" and hasn't returned. Her mother, who raised Emily alone, moves into the little apartment to help. Meanwhil...
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    Q. 210

  • YOUTHJUICE
    YOUTHJUICE
    E.K. SATHUE
    American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generationA 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture.From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhoo...
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  • GODWIN
    GODWIN
    JOSEPH O'NEILL
    From the acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year): the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes.Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and rai...
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    Q. 180

  • SERVICE
    SERVICE
    SARAH GILMARTIN
    A “powerful and compelling” novel about power, consent, and complicity in our #MeToo era — for fans of Sweetbitter and I Have Some Questions for You (Joseph O’Connor, author of My Father’s House)Tensions are at an all-time high in an upscale Dublin restaurant as its employees grapple with the fallout from a shocking scandal involving its head chefThe waitress, the chef, and the...
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    Q. 180

  • BUT HOW ARE YOU, REALLY
    BUT HOW ARE YOU, REALLY
    ELLA DAWSON
    A burned-out bisexual confronts old demons, her estranged chosen family, and the ex she maybe shouldn’t have walked away from when she attends her five-year college reunion.Charlotte Thorne does not want to go back to Hein University. Her life postcollege isn’t what she expected—her career in media is stalled, her passion for drawing has fallen by the wayside, and she’s done a ...
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  • BIRDING WITH BENEFITS
    BIRDING WITH BENEFITS
    SARAH T. DUBB
    A divorcee embarks on her “year of yes” and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who changes her life in this charming rom-com that is perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Ali Hazelwood.Newly-divorced, almost-empty-nester Celeste is finally seeking adventure and putting herself first, cliches be damned. So when a friend asks Celeste to “partner” with his buddy...
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  • THE MEIJI GUILLOTINE MURDERS
    THE MEIJI GUILLOTINE MURDERS
    YAMADA FUTÂRÔ
    A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoA captivating locked room murder mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Janice HallettJapan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious...
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    Q. 180

  • MY MURDER
    MY MURDER
    WILLIAMS, KATIE
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR!“One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads… Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night.” –The New York Times “Ingenious…fresh and unpredictable.” –The Washington Post“Gleefully overturn[s] the age-old ‘woman-in-trouble’ plot…eerie and inventive.” –NPR's Fresh Air Wh...
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    Q. 150