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The Big Seven

Jim Harrison

"Harrison's writing is always exhilarating. An added strength is his penchant for delightfully flawed but deeply human characters. Sunderson doesn't disappoint."-Seattle Times"The pleasures of The Big Seven are found mo...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Great Leader: A Faux Mystery

Jim Harrison

Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult ...

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Published: Oct 2012

The River Swimmer

Jim Harrison

"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers."-Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Trenchant and visionary."-Ron Carlson, The New York T...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Truth About Love

Josephine Hart

It opens in a small Irish town in the 1960s with the accidental death of a teenage boy who commits one final, heartrending act of love.Then: three brilliantly realized voices—the boy's mother, his older sister, a German expat neighb...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Good Father

Noah Hawley

An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.As a rheumatologist, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients other doctor...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Railwayman's Wife

Ashley Hay

For fans of The Light Between Oceans, this "exquisitely written, true book of wonders" (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) explores the aftermath of World War II in an Australian seaside town, and the mysteriou...

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Published: Apr 2017

A Thousand Ships: A Novel

Natalie Haynes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.”—Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortliste...

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Published: Oct 2021

Volt

Alan Heathcock

A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voiceOne man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting ...

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Published: Mar 2011

Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

Mark Helprin

The "enchanting, passionate, and uplifting" (Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, "Best New Fiction") new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great Wa...

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Published: Oct 2018

How I Became a Famous Novelist

Steve Hely

What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shoot...

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Published: Jul 2009

The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher

In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has ...

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Published: Feb 2010

Motherhood

Sheila Heti

From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"―Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children.In Motherho...

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Published: May 2019

Hanging Mary

Susan Higginbotham

The untold story of Lincoln's Assassination1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. S...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Guest Cat

Takashi Hiraide

A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple's life in TokyoA bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtl...

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Published: Jan 2014

At the End of the Matinee

Keiichiro Hirano

Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career w...

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Published: May 2021

Sleeping Above Chaos: A Novel (Black ...

Ann Hite

Imagine the relationship triangle from EAST OF EDEN and set it deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Add a couple of ghosts, a good measure of dysfunction, and a whole lot of twists and turns, and you have Ann Hite's new Black Mountain n...

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Published: Sep 2016

Neon in Daylight

Hermione Hoby

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A radiant first novel. . . . [Neon in Daylight] has antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Joan Didion’s Play I...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Retribution of Mara Dyer (The Mar...

Michelle Hodkin

It had to end sometime, but Mara had no idea it would end like this. Experience the mind-blowing conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy.Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she's been told. There...

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Published: Nov 2015

Safekeeping: A Novel

Jessamyn Hope

Jessamyn Hope's Safekeeping is a profound and moving novel about love, the inevitability of loss, and the courage it takes to keep starting over.It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with...

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Published: Jun 2015

Eternal Life: A Novel

Dara Horn

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2018, Booklist Editors' Choice Book (January 2019), and Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018What would it really mean to live forever?Rachel's current troubles—a middle-aged son minin...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Hairdresser of Harare

Tendai Huchu

In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named one of its ten best contemporary African books, Caine Prize finalist Tendai Huchu (The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician) portrays the heart of conte...

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Published: Feb 2015

Motherland

Maria Hummel

Motherland is inspired by stories from author Maria Hummel's father and his German childhood, and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years. It is the author's attempt to reckon with the parado...

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Published: Jan 2015

Mr. Splitfoot

Samantha Hunt

A New York Times Editors’ Choice * A Paris Review Staff Pick * An Indie Next Pick“Hypnotic and glowing.” — New York Times Book Review“An intriguing mystery with clues, suspense, enigmas galore, and an exhilarating, witty, po...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Dark Dark: Stories

Samantha Hunt

"Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky." ―Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"A feminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; it's the most evocative, impressive collection I've read this ...

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Published: Jul 2017

The Invention of Everything Else

Samantha Hunt

From the moment Louisa first catches sight of the strangeman who occupies a forbidden room on the thirty-thirdfloor, she is determined to befriend him.Unbeknownst toLouisa, he is Nikola Tesla—inventor of AC electricity and wirelessc...

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Published: Mar 2009

Ugly Girls

Lindsay Hunter

BuzzFeed Books' Best Book of 2014Perry and Baby Girl are best friends, though you wouldn't know it if you met them. Their friendship is woven from the threads of never-ending dares and power struggles, their loyalty fierce but incredi...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Hearts of Men

Travis Hunter

A man named Prodigy Banks has made his way from the streets of Atlanta to become an important figure in the finance world, but his unruly family continues to need his help both financially and as a mediator. Then he meets Nina and her...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award  A Best Book of the Year, London Times and Daily Mail | An Exceptional Novel, Sunday Times Best Book of the Year, British Book Industry Awards | A Best Summer Book, Publishers Weekly "The ...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Oleander Sisters

Elaine Hussey

An emotionally riveting tale of the bonds of family and the power of hope in the sultry Deep South In 1969, the first footsteps on the moon brighten America with possibilities. But along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a category five st...

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Published: Jul 2014

Deafening

Frances Itani

A deaf woman named Grania O'Neill marries Jim Lloyd, who goes off to fight in World War I. As he undergoes the ordeals of battle, his brother, Kenan, returns home--mute and with major injuries. Using her knowledge of the language she ...

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Published: Nov 2004
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