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  • The Half-Life of Everything
    The Half-Life of Everything : A Novel
    by Deborah Carol Gang
    Hardcover: Sep 2018
     
    David and Kate are happily married fifty-somethings when she's diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. He has never been unfaithful, but after several years of losing Kate more each day, he wonders: What is a married widower supposed to do? Two strong-...
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    Hamnet
    by Maggie O'Farrell
    Hardcover: Jul 2020
    Paperback: May 2021
     
    "Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life … here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston Globe
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  • The Hand that First Held Mine
    The Hand that First Held Mine : A Novel
    by Maggie O'Farrell
    Hardcover: Apr 2010
    Paperback: Jan 2011
     
    A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
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  • The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
    The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors : A Novel
    by Michele Young-Stone
    Hardcover: Apr 2010
    Paperback: Apr 2011
     
    When lightning strikes, lives are changed.
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  • Happiness
    Happiness : The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
    by Heather Harpham
    Hardcover: Aug 2017
    Paperback: Nov 2018
     
    A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.
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  • Happiness Falls
    Happiness Falls : A Novel
    by Angie Kim
    Hardcover: Aug 2023
    Paperback: May 2024
     
    When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another in this thrilling page-turner, a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle ...
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  • Happy
    Happy : A Novel
    by Celina Baljeet Basra
    Hardcover: Nov 2023
    Paperback: Nov 2024
     
    For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in Punjab to pursue his dreams - a formally daring debut novel set against the global migration crisis.
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  • Hard by a Great Forest
    Hard by a Great Forest : A Novel
    by Leo Vardiashvili
    Hardcover: Jan 2024
    Paperback: Jan 2025
     
    Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over
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    Babylonia
    by Costanza Casati
    From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history. When kings fall, queens rise.
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    Let's Call Her Barbie
    by Renée Rosen
    She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.
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    The Wager
    by David Grann
    From the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a gripping story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
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    Beast of the North Woods
    by Annelise Ryan

    When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature.

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    The Secret History of the Rape Kit
    by Pagan Kennedy

    The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.

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    Going Home
    by Tom Lamont

    Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.

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