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A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined sh...
Bethanne Patrick
2023-01-13T13:58:13.000ZFrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university ...
Bethanne Patrick
2023-01-13T13:58:13.000ZA beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, this unputdownable debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what’s left of American democracy.In an alternate 2009, the United States...
Bethanne Patrick
2023-01-06T13:23:07.000ZAn extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey—whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award—The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession.It’s 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most in...
Bethanne Patrick
2022-12-13T15:52:52.000ZMy Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge.When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discover...
Bethanne Patrick
2022-12-09T14:26:55.000ZNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST "Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway." --The New York Times Book Review There ...
Bethanne Patrick
2022-12-08T15:10:18.000ZAlso recommended by
Genevieve GuentherIn this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his juni...
From New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine....
Bethanne Patrick
2022-11-09T19:48:23.000ZAlso recommended by
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will ...
Bethanne Patrick
2022-09-23T14:04:34.000ZINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION The 2020 NAACP Image Award-winning poet makes her fiction debut with this National Book Award-longlisted, magisterial epic--an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and...
Bethanne Patrick
2022-08-17T14:01:29.000ZAlso recommended by
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Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
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Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Off Our Chests – A Candid Tour Through the World of Cancer by Dr. John Marshall, Liza Marshall
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Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Red Island House by Andrea Lee
The Butchers' Blessing by Ruth Gilligan
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
These Women by Ivy Pochoda
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Beheld by Tarashea Nesbit
How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye
A Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Palm Beach, Finland by Antti Tuomainen
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
New People by Danzy Senna
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
Your Face in Mine by Jess Row
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy
The Age of Shiva by Manil Suri
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Beautiful Children by Charles Bock
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The House of Gucci by Sara G. Forden