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New & Notable Fiction June 2024 |
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Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand (release date 6/11)When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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Fire exit : a novel by Morgan Talty (release date 6/4)Morgan Talty, a citizen of the indigenous Penobscot Indian Nation and author of the short story collection Night of the Living Rez, presents his first novel. Booklist says "sweetened with touches of humor, the novel raises important questions about human connection and belonging."
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Husbands & loversby Beatriz Williams (release date 6/25)Two women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets, in the new novel from the bestselling author of The Summer Wives.
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God bless you, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas (release date 6/18)An ex-Army grad student, Joseph, navigates PTSD, single fatherhood and strained family ties while confronting the complexities of race, love, and justice in modern Philadelphia.
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Bear by Julia Phillips (release date 6/25)Trapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection. From the acclaimed author of Disappearing Earth.
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Godwin by Joseph O'Neill (release date 6/4)A technical writer living in Pittsburgh with his young family is pulled into a scheme with his half-brother to recruit a soccer phenom in Africa to play for his team in the United Kingdom, in the new novel by the author of the prize-winning Netherland.
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Margo's got money troublesby Rufi Thorpe (release date 6/11)A young woman attempts to navigate adulthood, new motherhood and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world.
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Familiaris by David Wroblewski (release date 6/11)The long-awaited follow-up to Wroblewski's 2008 novel The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a prequel to that beloved book, taking readers on an unforgettable journey from the halls of a small-town automobile factory, through an epic midwestern firestorm and an ambitious WWII dog training program, and far back into mankind's ancient past.
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The rom-commers by Katherine Center (release date 6/11)Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma discovers he's a jerk and doesn't even believe in love. Refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
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The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier (release date 6/18)From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure. From the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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The road to the countryby Chigozie Obioma (release date 6/4)In 1960s Nigeria, Kunle sets out on an impossible rescue mission when his younger brother disappears as the country explodes in civil war. The latest novel from Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, a two-time Booker Prize finalist.
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Jackpot summer by Elyssa Friedland (release date 6/11)When the four Jacobsen siblings, all struggling in life, win the lottery, becoming overnight millionaires, the once close-knit siblings search for comfort in shiny new toys instead of each other until they start to realize they'll never feel rich unless they can pull their family back together.
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