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Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.
For Harry, this is that story at last.
Available in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
Also Available January 10th in Spanish: Spare: En la sombra.
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Age of Vice: A Novel by Deepti Kapoor
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.
“Dazzling . . . Finally free from the book’s grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked.”—The Washington Post
“Sensationally good—huge, epic, immersive and absorbing . . . certain to be a book of the year.”—Lee Child
Available in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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In the Upper Country: A Novel by Thomas Kai
The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, powerful novel set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad.
“The harshly real and the fantastic mingle in ways that recall Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer and Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black . . . An exceptional work that mines a rich historical vein.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People by Tracy Kidder
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains.
“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
Available January 17th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Brutes: A Novel by Dizz Tate
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent.
“Dreamlike . . . Tate’s novel feels a bit like avant-garde fashion: surreal, impractical, but beautiful to see. A promising first book whose enigmatic nature is . . . alluring.”—Kirkus Reviews
Available February 7th in Hardcover and eBook Editions.
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The Friendship Breakup: A Novel by Annie Cathryn
For fans of Laura Hankin and Jennifer Weiner, this fresh, clever, and complex debut “mom-com” explores the ups and downs of friendship and what happens when those you trust the most leave you high and dry.
In this warm and witty story, Annie Cathryn paints a portrait of a woman who must let go of her preconceived notions of what her life should be like in order to find out who she really is—and become her own best friend.”—Camille Pagán, national bestselling author of I’m Fine and Neither Are You
Available February 7th in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.
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Time’s Undoing: A Novel by Cheryl A. Head
A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago—inspired by the author’s own family history.
“A harrowing yet beautiful journey into the heart of darkness that beats in the center of the American Experience. A tour de force.”—S.A. Cosby,New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland
Available February 28th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together
Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.
Available March 7th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Pineapple Street: A Novel by Jenny Jackson
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.
“A vibrant and hilarious debut . . . Pineapple Street is riveting, timely, hugely entertaining and brimming with truth.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest
Available March 7th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Lone Women: A Novel by Victor LaValle
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
“If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See
Available March 21st in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.
Available March 21st in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Loyalty: A Novel by Lisa Scottoline
#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.
“A gripping, compulsively readable tale of courage, loyalty, family secrets, and the price of honor. An unputdownable piece of historical fiction that puts Scottoline’s talent for writing twisty plots and unforgettable characters on full display.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Four Winds
Available March 28th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own.
“A new and necessary American voice.”—Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review
Available April 4th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Romantic Comedy: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age.With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age.
Available April 4th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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The Golden Doves: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—an extraordinary novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
“[A] riveting story of two brave and amazing women who work in the French Resistance during World War II . . . a triumph!”—Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times bestselling author of Eternal
Available April 18th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
Available April 18th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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An American Beauty: A Novelby Shana Abé
Amidst the opulent glamor and vicious social circles of Gilded Age New York, this stunning biographical historical novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor conjures the true rage-to-riches story of Arabella Huntington—a woman whose great beauty was surpassed only by her exceptional business acumen, grit, and artistic eye, and who defied the constraints of her era to become the wealthiest self-made woman in America.
Available April 25th in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.
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Happy Place: A Novel by Emily Henry
A couple who broke up months ago pretends to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade.
Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week . . . in front of those who know you best?
Available April 25th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Only Love Can Hurt Like This: A Novel by Paige Toon
In the spirit of Colleen Hoover and Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: is love worth risking everything for?
“Will have you swooning, crying, and turning the pages late into the night . . . Truly heart-rending.”—Sophie Cousens, author of Just Haven’t Met You Yet
Available April 25th in Trade Paperback, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Ferryman: A Novel by Justin Cronin
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems.
“Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—Stephen King
Available May 2nd in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel by Tom Hanks; Illustrated by R. Sikoryak
From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film . . . and the humble comic books that inspired it.
Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
Available May 9th in Hardcover, eBook, Audio, and Large Print Editions.
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Love, Theoretically: A Novel by Ali Hazelwood
Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
By day, Elsie is an adjunct professor. By other day, she makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted ruler of the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but . . . Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?
Available June 13th in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Only One Left: A Novel by Riley Sager
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope
Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life
“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead
Available June 20th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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