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Patti Callahan Henry, author of The Stories We Tell

Eve and Teddy Morrison are Savannah’s power couple, but things aren’t as good as they look. Their teenage daughter, Gwen, is rebelling, and Teddy is blaming this on Eve’s preoccupation with work. The Morrison marriage is taut with tension, but when Teddy is involved in a car accident with Eve’s sister, Willa, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories, Eve has to find out what really happened --- and just who she believes.

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Tom Franklin, author of The Tilted World

Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, THE TILTED WORLD is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love.

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Khaled Hosseini, author of And the Mountains Echoed

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Chevy Stevens, author of That Night

Toni Murphy is finally leaving prison after fifteen years. Jailed for a crime she didn't commit, the murder of her sister, she just wants to get on with her life. But her ex-boyfriend Ryan, who was also set up for the murder, is determined to clear their name and get revenge on those who wronged them.

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Daphne Kalotay, author of Sight Reading

It has been 20 years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind on the cusp of success and its challenges; and the beautiful and fragile Hazel, first came together, tipping their collective world on its axis. From Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, their lives have crisscrossed, diverged and interlaced, each discovering how the quest to create something real and true can lead to profound personal revelations --- and the unearthing of long-held secrets.

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Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth Is Missing

In this darkly riveting debut novel, a woman descending into dementia refuses to accept that her elderly best friend Elizabeth has simply disappeared --- and, as her mind retreats to a frightening place where the past and present collide, she embarks on a desperate quest for the truth that will have shattering consequences.

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Kathryn Ma, author of The Year She Left Us

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize --- comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.

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John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

Insightful, bold, irreverent and raw, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love.

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Claire Kendal, author of The Book of You

A mesmerizing tale of psychological suspense about a woman who must fight to escape an expert manipulator determined to possess her, Claire Kendal’s debut novel is a sophisticated and disturbing portrait of compulsion, control, and terror that will appeal to fans of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, THE SILENT WIFE, and INTO THE DARKEST CORNER.

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Elise Juska, author of The Blessings

For any reader who has embraced Elizabeth Strout’s Burgess family or J. Courtney Sullivan’s Kellehers of Maine, this is a moving and beautiful novel about how our families define us and how we shape them in return.

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