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In this stunning historical novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong
midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined
to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine—and eager to run away
from her recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C.
to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded...
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Adam Langer, the wickedly funny
author of the novels Crossing California, The Washington Story, and
Ellington Boulevard, has written a book that is at once a comical literary
caper, an exploration of authenticity and fakery, and a tribute to books.
THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN is a novel that examines the lengths some writers
will go to succeed...
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From the author of the "big-hearted...inspiring" (Vogue) New York Times
bestseller Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as
real life: the story of a remarkable coffee
shop in the heart of Kabul, and the women
who meet there--each with a story and a
secret that will lead them all to an
extraordinary friendship...
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IF WISHES WERE HORSES, a
modern day love story, explores a terrible
loss and the extraordinary ability of one
man to find love again. We believe that this
novel will appeal to the millions of readers
who enjoy fiction by writers such as
Nicholas Sparks.
Five years after Wyatt Blaine loses his
wife, Krista, and their young son...
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It’s 1960, and David Swan is
two years into his life sentence for
murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend,
Katya Osman. In the dead of night, David
escapes from prison, and that same night
Katya is found murdered in her uncle’s home,
Blackwater Hall.
Inspector Trave of the Oxford Police, last
seen in...
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The stories in
William Lychack’s dazzling new collection, The Architect of Flowers, explore
the dear and inevitable distance between people in loving relationships and
find hope in dark situations. With tiny, precise details, Lychack observes
the overlooked moments of everyday life—the small failings between parents
and children, the long-held secrets in married life.
A small-town policeman brings himself...
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Meg Waite Clayton’s
national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters
was a word-of-mouth sensation and book club
favorite. In THE FOURS MS. BRADWELLS Clayton
delivers an affecting page-turner that
explores the secrets we keep—even from those
we love most—and celebrates the enduring
power of friendship.
Years before Sandra Day O’Connor was
appointed to the Supreme Court—and at a time
when only three women had ever served full
Senate terms...
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The Tragedy of Arthur
is an emotional and elaborately constructed
tour de force from bestselling and
critically acclaimed novelist Arthur
Phillips, “one of the best writers in
America” (The Washington Post)
Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young
man struggling with a larger-than-life
father, a con artist who works wonders of
deception but is a most unreliable parent.
Arthur is raised in an enchanted world of
smoke and mirrors where the only unshifting
truth is his father’s and his...
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Thirty-five-year-old folklorist
and amateur martial artist Bess Gray is a single woman living in Washington,
D.C., who falls in love with Rory, a charming Irish musician with a secret.
When Rory asks her to marry him, Bess, who had nearly given up hope of
marrying at all, is horrified to find that he has eight ex-wives. She sets
out on a cross-country journey with the intention, unbeknownst to Rory, of
seeking them...
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In the vein of The Red
Tent and A Thousand Splendid Suns
comes a novel of a young woman in early
20th-century Jerusalem who must choose
between her faith and her passion.
Esther Kaminski knows that her duty is to
marry young and have many sons while
awaiting the return of the Messiah: that is
what all young Haredi women do. But when her
French teacher catches her doodling in a
notebook one afternoon, and begins to give
her art lessons, Esther wonders if God might
have a special...
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At once a powerful family
saga and compelling personal odyssey, Kamala
Nair’s debut novel tells the story of a
haunted young woman who, in an effort to
seek clarity about her impending marriage,
confronts one fateful summer from her
childhood.
When Rakhee Singh is just ten-years-old, her
world is shaken irrevocably when her
beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her
away from her father and their Minnesota
home...
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Marjorie Richards--now a wife and
mother--tells the story of her rescue from a bizarre, abusive childhood. By
turns dark with a peculiar breed of insanity and bright with love and
resilience, The Talk-Funny Girl is a testament to one young woman's
courage and the healing force of love.
Marjorie is raised by parents so
intentionally isolated from normal human
society that they develop their own dialect,
a kind of mountain ...
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Kwei Quartey’s debut novel
Wife of the Gods charmed reviewers and
readers alike. With his protagonist
Inspector Darko Dawson, literary fans found
a new keen-eyed and all too human detective
to root for. In CHILDREN OF THE STREET
Dawson returns to solve an even more
gruesome and perplexing case.
In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving,
cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning
up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen
many crimes...
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The Oriental Wife is the story of
two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and
struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York,
they fall in love both with each other and America, believing they have
found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing bad can
ever befall them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish accident and
a betrayal that will reverberate in the life of their American daughter...
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"Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious
thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not
comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most
unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is
fiction."
--Eudora Welty
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Fiction coming out in 2012
January:
THE
WORLD WE FOUND by Thrity Umrigar,
MORE THAN WORDS CAN
SAY by Robert Barclay,
THE FOUR MS BRADWELLS by Meg Waite Clayton, paperback.
February:
THE HEALING
by Jonathan Odell,
THE
GOLDEN HOUR by Margaret Wurtele,
THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR by Arthur Phillips, paperback.
March:
MAY THE
ROAD RISE TO MEET YOU by Peter Troy,
THE
KING OF DIAMONDS by Simon Tolkien paperback,
THE
LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL by Deborah Rodriquez,
paperback (formerly A Cup of Friendship in hardbound).
April: THE COVE
by Ron Rash.
June:
THE
GIRL IN THE GARDEN Kamala Nair, paperback.
August:
I GAVE MY HEART TO KNOW THIS by Ellen Baker, paperback.
October: KILLER LIBRARIAN by Mary Lou Kirwin, IN NEED
OF A GOOD WIFE by Kelly O'Connor McNees, AMERICAN GHOST
by Janis Owens.
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