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Early Morning Riser
by Katherine Heiny
Falling in love with Duncan, the world’s most prolific seducer of women, Jane finds herself part of an unconventional family, which includes his best friend and ex-wife, when one terrible car crash permanently intertwines her life with Duncan’s.
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The Music of Bees
by Eileen Garvin
Three strangers navigating grief and devastating setbacks cross paths in a rural Oregon town, where they find unexpected friendship, healing and new chances on local honeybee farm.
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My Old Home: a novel of exile
by Orville Schell
A former Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism dean and Emmy Award-winning PBS producer presents the story of a rare Chinese student at 1950 San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music who, upon returning home, is confronted by an erratic new government.
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Revelations
by Mary Sharratt
Revealing to her 15th-century village's holy woman that she has been experiencing visions after nearly dying in childbirth, Margery is entrusted with her confessor's radical writings and the task of secretly sharing their contents.
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The Five Wounds
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night at the Fiestas finds a man accepting the role of Jesus in his New Mexico community’s Good Friday procession, before his personal goals of redemption are challenged by a daughter’s pregnancy.
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The Night Always Comes
by Willy Vlautin
Working multiple jobs to buy a home that will give her family much-needed stability, Lynette is sidelined by a betrayal that forces her to consider dangerous options among the hustlers and wealthy elite controlling her booming city.
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Whereabouts
by Jhumpa Lahiri
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland comes this novel (written originally in Italian) which follows the routines of a misfit city dweller who experiences a year of remarkable transformation in the aftermath of a parent’s death.
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First Person Singular: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
Told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a new collection by the award-winning writer explores the boundaries of the mind through subjects ranging from youth and music to baseball and solitude.
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The Souvenir Museum: Stories
by Elizabeth McCracken
The award-winning author of The Giant’s House presents a story collection that includes entries about a fear-testing Texas water park venture, a widower’s puffin search and a villain actress’s New Year celebration.
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