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New Book Alerts | New Arrivals

Deacon King Kong: A Novel

Author: James McBride

Publisher: Riverhead Books

From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.

In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south...

Weather: A novel

Author: Jenny Offill

Publisher: Knopf

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage...

Writers & Lovers

Author: Lily King

Publisher: Grove Press

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer...

Leave the World Behind: A Novel

Author: Rumaan Alam

Publisher: Ecco

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongAmanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good...

The Cold Millions: A Novel

Author: Jess Walter

Publisher: Harper

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another "literary miracle" (NPR) - a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.The Dolan brothers...

The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Author: Brit Bennett

Publisher: Riverhead Books

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community...

My Dark Vanessa: A Novel

Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell

Publisher: William Morrow

"A hard story to read and a harder one to put down . . . a well-constructed package of dynamite." - Stephen King
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naÃ¯ve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks...

Winter Counts: A Novel

Author: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Publisher: Ecco

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservationVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard...

Monogamy: A Novel

Author: Sue Miller

Publisher: Harper

A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, and heartache, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller.Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances....

Conjure Women: A Novel

Author: Afia Atakora

Publisher: Random House

A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime, are at the heart of this mesmerizing...

The Glass Hotel: A novel

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Publisher: Knopf

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events--a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost...

How Much of These Hills Is Gold:...

Author: C Pam Zhang

Publisher: Random House Large Print

One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020!An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape - trying not just to survive but to find a home.Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children...

Mexican Gothic

Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Publisher: Del Rey

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico - and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. After receiving a frantic letter...