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  • SWIFT RIVER
    SWIFT RIVER
    ESSIE CHAMBERS
    A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A Most Anticipated Book from Today, Real Simple, Time, Los Angeles Times, and BookPage “The book we all need to revive our souls” (Nicole Dennis-Benn): A sweeping family saga about the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the disappearance of a father, and the long-hidden history of a declining New England mill town. “A p...
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  • WOMEN
    WOMEN
    CHLOE CALDWELL
    One of Cosmopolitan UK's Best Erotic Novels of All Time "Brief, sharp, and utterly consuming. . . Like your first love, it lingers long after the final chapter." - Tegan Quin "A contemporary classic of queer women's writing." - Michelle Tea "Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic." - Cheryl Strayed "[A] gorgeously composed queer novel that's about so much ...
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  • FIREBRAND
    FIREBRAND
    FREMANTLE, ELIZABETH
    Now a major motion picture, Firebrand shows the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotisti...
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  • CAMINO GHOSTS
    CAMINO GHOSTS
    JOHN GRISHAM
    #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise. In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and de...
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  • THE SECOND COMING
    THE SECOND COMING
    HALLBERG, GARTH RISK
    A luminous new novel from the best-selling author of City on Fire, plunging us deep into the lives of a teenage girl and her father as they navigate love, grief, addiction, resurrection, and the restless pull of other people.When 13-year-old Jolie Aspern drops her phone onto the subway tracks in 2011, her estranged dad, Ethan, seems like the furthest thing from her mind. A conv...
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  • A GOOD LIFE
    A GOOD LIFE
    VIRGINIE GRIMALDI / SERLE, HILDEGARDE
    A JUNE 2024 INDIE NEXT PICKFull of humor and compassion, a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life from France's most beloved contemporary novelistLaughter, tears, the transformative power of love, unexpected revelations, and striking natural beauty: these are the ingredients that combine to make best-selling author Virginie Grimaldi's Amer...
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  • LIES AND WEDDINGS
    LIES AND WEDDINGS
    KEVIN KWAN
    The iconic author of the international sensation Crazy Rich Asians returns with a delicious comedy of manners set on the Big Island of Hawaii, where a decadent wedding serves as the elaborate rouse for a romantic scheme, and an unexpected affair erupts volcanically in the midst.Auggie and Maxxi are getting married and if they had any say in it, this low-key couple would celebra...
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  • PERFUME AND PAIN
    PERFUME AND PAIN
    ANNA DORN
    A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer’s group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that...
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  • EXHIBIT
    EXHIBIT
    KWON, R O
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE"Hypnotic...a haunting romance about desire, obsession, and ambition that is sure to get your heart rate up." —Time Magazine“R.O. Kwon’s Exhibit is, hands down, the sexiest novel of the year.” - Vogue"A highly sensory experience...lingers like a mysterious, multihued bruise." —The New York TimesFrom bestselling author R. O. Kwon,...
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  • SWIPED
    SWIPED
    L.M. CHILTON
    “As if Bridget Jones found herself in a Scream film. Murderously clever!” —Rupert Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Your Employer “Fast-paced, twisty and great fun!” —Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie A clever and darkly hilarious thriller/romantic comedy about a young woman who must unmask a serial killer that everyone think...
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  • THE PARIS DAUGHTER
    THE PARIS DAUGHTER
    KRISTIN HARMEL
    Instant New York Times bestseller! “A gorgeous, gut-wrenching” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) historical novel about two mothers facing unthinkable choices as the Nazis invade France—from the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Th...
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  • TIRED LADIES TAKE A STAND
    TIRED LADIES TAKE A STAND
    ANTHONY, GRETCHEN
    "Do yourself a favor and say yes to the perfect bookish escape." --Lucy Gilmore, author of The Lonely Hearts Book Club You've heard of Year of Yes. Introducing... Year of No. During one unforgettable year in their twenties, best friends Emma, Fern, Carolina, and Andi make a pact to embrace whatever life throws at them, inspiring Fern to write a memoir detailing their esca...
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  • THE WHISPERS
    THE WHISPERS
    AUDRAIN, ASHLEY
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Push, a propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens—and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses“Nobody delves as deep into the guts of motherhood as Ashley Audrain, she really is in a league of her own.” —Lisa JewellOn Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood c...
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    Q. 130

  • LONG ISLAND
    LONG ISLAND
    COLM TOIBIN
    From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later.Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, ...
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  • HOW TO READ A BOOK
    HOW TO READ A BOOK
    WOOD, MONICA
    "A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures." -- Booklist "A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." --Lily King From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships,...
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  • THE BEST LIFE BOOK CLUB
    THE BEST LIFE BOOK CLUB
    SHEILA ROBERTS
    "[With] a set of characters so vivid we want to be their best friends, and a story that keeps us turning the pages, The Best Life Book Club is your book club book of the year. . . . A novel of pure delight! --Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together. Karissa Newc...
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  • A LONG WALK FROM GAZA
    A LONG WALK FROM GAZA
    ASMAA ALATAWNA
    The violence of life in Gaza which has taken on immense proportions for the whole world to see is intimately rendered here in a human story of resistance and resilience. In the tradition of Palestinian women writers, Asmaa Alatawna a has gifted us a novel that is both personal and political, that exposes both the occupation and the patriarchy. A Long Walk from Gaza is a coming-...
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  • CINEMA LOVE
    CINEMA LOVE
    JIAMING TANG
    A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Exceptional, moving, and not to be missed.”—Alice Hoffman “Gentle and fierce, heartbreaking without sacrificing its sense of humor . . . I have never read anything like it.”—Robert Jones, Jr. A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobble...
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  • CLIVE CUSSLER CONDOR'S FURY
    CLIVE CUSSLER CONDOR'S FURY
    GRAHAM BROWN / CUSSLER, CLIVE
    Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain cl...
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  • DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    DAUGHTERS OF SHANDONG
    EVE J. CHUNG
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family storyDaughters are the Ang family’s curse.In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of a...
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  • AMÉRICA DEL NORTE
    AMÉRICA DEL NORTE
    NICOLÁS MEDINA MORA
    Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole.Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a ...
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  • THE DAYDREAMS
    THE DAYDREAMS
    LAURA HANKIN
    A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption or destroy them all for good.Back in 2004, The Daydreams had it all: a cast of innocent-seeming teenagers acting and singing their hearts out, amazing ratings, an...
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  • THE GUEST
    THE GUEST
    EMMA CLINE
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.   “Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully destabilizing force.”—The New York TimesLON...
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  • THE HEIRLOOM
    THE HEIRLOOM
    JESSIE ROSEN
    AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERThe answer to the biggest question of her life lies in someone else’s past.Shea Anderson’s beloved Nonna had endless rules for a happy, healthy life: avoid owls, never put a hat on a bed, and never, ever accept a marriage proposal that comes with an heirloom ring. Happily ever after is hard enough without bad karma in the mix.Naturally, panic sets...
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  • EARLY SOBRIETIES
    EARLY SOBRIETIES
    MICHAEL DEAGLER
    "“Just give me one more day,” Monk says, and “Early Sobrieties” is such a wise and piercing book that we believe him."—Charlie Lee, The New York Times Book Review"Michael Deagler is the real deal." —Percival Everett, 2023 Windham Campbell Prize recipient and author of Dr. NoDon’t worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He’s sober now, ready to rejoin the world of...
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  • THE POSTCARD
    THE POSTCARD
    BEREST, ANNE
    A BEST BOOK OF 2023TIME Magazine·NPR·Library Journal·The Globe and Mail·Lilith·Forward Magazine·Toronto Star·The New Yorker"A testament to the power of imagination and an investigation of empathy."--Vogue"Stunning."--Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker"A can't-miss novel."--Chicago Review of Books"Compelling."--The Washington ExaminerAnne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclai...
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  • THE SUMMER WE CROSSED EUROPE IN THE RAIN
    THE SUMMER WE CROSSED EUROPE IN THE RAIN
    KAZUO ISHIGURO / BIANCA BAGNARELLI
    From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously illustrated volume of lyrics written for the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent.Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, whi...
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  • REAL AMERICANS
    REAL AMERICANS
    RACHEL KHONG
    From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a s...
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  • 888 LOVE AND THE DIVINE BURDEN OF NUMBERS
    888 LOVE AND THE DIVINE BURDEN OF NUMBERS
    ABRAHAM CHANG
    “Abraham Chang’s novel, packed with pop culture, is wonderfully alive. This is a beautifully tender and funny examination of love, of identity, of making your way in a world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time.” —Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Nothing To See HereYoung Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, ...
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  • MISS MORGAN'S BOOK BRIGADE
    MISS MORGAN'S BOOK BRIGADE
    Janet Skeslien Charles
    The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman’s World) The Paris Library returns with a brilliant new novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work...
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