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In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family—from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives.
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Are you happy with your life? What if you could try again . . . and again? From the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars comes Again, Again, a romantic, surprising, and unpredictable love story that will surprise you over and over. Now in paperback!
After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of love a thousand times—while finally confronting the secrets she keeps and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.
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Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come. From debut author Veronica G. Henry comes a mesmerizing fantasy novel of dangerous magic. Welcome to the traveling Bacchanal Carnival. The price for a ticket: your soul. Read Bacchanal.
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New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell’s epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes.
After everything they thought they understood has been proven wrong, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward. Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.
Sponsored by The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, author of #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens, a secret society of female students at Cambridge University. When one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered, Mariana is convinced that Greek tragedy professor Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder.
When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop this killer, even if it costs her everything―including her own life.
Sponsored by Flatiron Books, publishers of Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford.
Ashley C. Ford’s New York Times bestseller Somebody’s Daughter is one of the most talked about books of the summer. John Green calls it “a classic in the making” and Glennon Doyle says, “Ford is a writer for the ages.”
A poignant and powerful memoir about discovery, love, and acceptance, as Ashley recounts her childhood punctuated by the absence of her incarcerated father.
Sponsored by Little, Brown and Company
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith leads readers on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. “How the Word Is Passed frees history, frees humanity to reckon honestly with the legacy of slavery,” raves Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of How to be an Anti-Racist. “We need this book.”
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The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve endearing strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.
Sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change – and maybe even redemption.
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