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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
Author
Publisher
Soho, Soho Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, best-selling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Approached in the park by a shadowy figure, Angus Lordie is mistaken for a journalist and becomes privy to some controversial plans of the Scottish Parliament - but just what is he meant to do about it? At school, a new member of Bertie's class, Galactica MacFee, quickly comes between Bertie and Olive, leaving him no choice but to skip town. And the indomitable Irene finds herself yet again in Edinburgh . . . but this time there might be romance...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On arrival, Sonia is roped into playing Gertrude in a production of Hamlet in the West Bank, in a company of actors from all over historic Palestine. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many violent obstacles stand in their way. Amidst it all, the life in London Sonia once...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Regaining consciousness after nearly losing his life to Akutagawa, Atsushi is paralyzed by the thought of inviting more death and destruction upon his companions at the Armed Detective Agency. But before he can make good on his vow to leave the agency, the Mafia sends Ryuurou Hirotsu -- of the merciless Black Lizard group -- to storm their offices! Between the Black Lizards and the bomb-tossing Motojirou Kajii, and the demure, kimono-wearing Kyouka...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Spring flowers may be about to bloom in Crozet, Virginia, but Harry is thinking about snow. Her dear friend Ned Tucker is in the House of Delegates, advocating for a bill to improve road clearing during bad weather, and Harry and Ned's wife, Susan, have gone down to the statehouse to support him. Tensions are high between political parties, and no one can agree on anything for long enough to get something done. The bill's chief detractor is the glamorous...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Summer Sullivan of Elm Creek Quilts has returned home to the celebrated quilter's retreat, but it isn't all a delight. Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't graduate until she does. She finds distraction in organizing an exhibit of quilts as a fundraiser. But Summer's research uncovers facts about the town's past, prompting questions about racism, economic injustice, and corruption within their community
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting--one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. Before the stunned populace can process the tragedy, an arsonist begins torching antebellum plantation homes in Bienville. When an unknown...
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