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I SPYClaire Kendal

Harper Paperbacks

Trade Paperback

On sale: August 6th, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062834690

$16.99

Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything she imagined. Now, Holly lives under an assumed name, hiding from the man who nearly destroyed her life. She avoids relationships and trusts no one.

But Holly’s new life begins to unravel when she encounters a young mother and her two-year-old child… a child who reminds her of a past she has tried hard to forget. This time, someone is spying on her, and Holly will need to decide how far she is willing to go to survive.

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Small Silent Things

Harper Perennial

Trade Paperback

On sale: September 3rd, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062879233

$16.99

A lyrical, haunting debut that explores the power of parenthood, identity, lust, and the legacy of trauma.

Jocelyn and Simon are unlikely neighbors in a luxury condo building. Simon is a Rwandan refugee living the American Dream and Jocelyn is living a life of privilege with her charming husband and beautiful young daughter. But each has scars—both figurative and literal—from their pasts. As Jocelyn and Simon begin a friendship, they forge a bond out of their dark histories—a bond that may be their only hope of being pulled back from the abyss.



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The Starlet and the SpyJi-Min Lee

Harper Paperbacks

Trade Paperback

On sale: September 10th, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062930262

$15.99

A captivating work of historical fiction—based on true events—set in Seoul, a year after the Korean War armistice, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet.

February 1954. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist working for the US forces still sanctioned in Korea, is haunted by memories from the war. Moving through her day to day life—existing more than living, she has few expectations for her new assignment: translator for American movie star Marilyn Monroe who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour.

As Alice escorts Marilyn on her tour, she can’t help but compare their two very different lives and as her own painful and troubled past catches up with her, she is forced into a reckoning, no longer able to run from her guilt and trauma.



The Mistletoe MatchmakerFelicity Hayes-McCoy

Harper Perennial

Trade Paperback

On sale: October 8th, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062799067

$15.99

The days are turning colder, preparations are under way for the Winter Fest, and everyone is hoping for a little holiday magic on the Finfarran peninsula. And as Cassie Fitzgerald, fresh from Toronto, is about to discover, there's more to the holidays on the west coast of Ireland than mistletoe and mince pies.

The dazzling third book in Felicity Hayes-McCoy’s Finfarran Peninsula series, The Mistletoe Matchmaker is a heartfelt celebration of community, family, and the meaning of home.



The NetworkL. C. Shaw



Harper Paperbacks

Trade Paperback

On sale: December 17th, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062950901

$16.99

A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media.

Late one night, investigative journalist Jack Logan receives a surprise visit from U.S. Senator Malcolm Phillips at his New York apartment. Disheveled and in a panic, the senator swears he’s about to be murdered and pleads with Jack to protect his wife Taylor. Days later, Phillips is found dead. As Jack and Taylor race to find the one man who knows the truth, their desperate hunt leads them to the Institute, a mysterious organization responsible for a generation of America’s top political and media power players.

News of Our Loved OnesAbigail DeWitt

Harper Perennial

Trade Paperback

On sale: December 31st, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780062834744

$16.99

Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love, loss, and the cost of survival, as witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy.

Moving back and forth in time, News of Our Loved Ones explores the way family histories are shared and illuminates the power of storytelling to understand the past and who we are.

Trust ExerciseSusan Choi

Henry Holt & Co.

Hardcover

On sale: April 9, 2019

ISBN-13: 9781250309884

$27.00

“Book groups, meet your next selection. . . . Trust Exercise is fiction that contains multiple truths and lies. Working with such common material, Choi has produced something uncommonly thought-provoking.” —NPR



The Last Book PartyKaren Dukess

Henry Holt & Co.

Hardcover

On sale: July 9, 2019

ISBN-13: 9781250225474

$27.00

A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the timeless beaches of Cape Cod.



The Long AccomplishmentRick Moody

Henry Holt & Co.

Hardcover

On sale: August 6, 2019

ISBN-13: 9781627798440

$28.00

Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage―an eventful month-by-month account―in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony.



The ShadesEvgenia Citkowitz

W. W. Norton & Company

Paperback

On sale: October 22nd, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780393357585

$15.95

A year has passed since Catherine and Michael Hall lost their teenage daughter in a car accident, leaving them and their sixteen-year-old son, Rowan, reeling in the aftermath of the tragedy. Catherine withdraws to Hamdean, the family’s apartment in a Georgian country manner, where the mysteries of the past begin to collide with the truth of the present.



CrudoOlivia Laing


Paperback

On sale: September 3rd, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780393357417

$14.95

It’s the summer of 2017 and Kathy—who bears a distinct resemblance to punk novelist Kathy Acker—is getting married. Meanwhile, fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is heating up, and Trump is tweeting the world ever closer to nuclear war. In Crudo, her first work of fiction, Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel with a fierce, compassionate account of learning to love when the end of the world seems in sight.

A New York Times Notable, Washington Post, NPR, Guardian, and Bustle Best Book of 2018.



The Shadow KingMaaza Mengiste


Hardcover

On sale: September 24th, 2019

ISBN-13: 9780393083569$26.95

In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini’s looming invasion. As the battles begin in earnest, Hirut and other women must care for the wounded. But when Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia is about to lose hope, Hirut helps to disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor to keep the fight alive. She becomes his guard, inspiring women to join the war against fascism.

In this extraordinary, beautifully told epic, Hirut overcomes rape, violence, and imprisonment, finding the strength to fight for her country’s freedom and her own. MaazaMengiste breathes life into complicated characters on both sides of the battle line, shaping a searing story of ordinary women and the advanced army they courageously opposed. Set against the first real conflict of World War II, The Shadow King is a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.



The World Doesn’t Require You: StoriesRion Amilcar Scott

Liveright Publishing

Hardcover

On sale: August 20th, 2019

ISBN-13: 978-1631495380$25.95

“Wild, restless, deeply intelligent… What a beautiful book.” ― Lauren GroffIn creating his very own Yoknapatawpha County with the fictional Cross River, Maryland, Rion Amilcar Scott explores religion, violence, and love with sly humor and magical realism. Cross River’s residents―spanning decades and species―include struggling musicians, dutiful robots, ruthless Ph.D. candidates, and David Sherman, who just so happens to be God’s last son. One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, The World Doesn’t Require You announces the arrival of a generational talent.



Joy Enough: A MemoirSarah McColl


Paperback

On sale: January 14th, 2020

ISBN-13: 978-1631496639$15.95

A Belletrist Book of the Month, this “exquisite memoir” (Los Angeles Times) is the perfect balm for any reader who has experienced loss.Lipsticks applied, novels read, imperfect cakes baked—such memories are recalled with “crystalline perfection” (The Brooklyn Rail) in Sarah McColl’s breathtaking testimonial to the joy and pain of loving well. When her mother Allison was diagnosed with cancer, McColl dropped everything to return to the family farmhouse and fix elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. Joy Enough is “a gorgeous, painful, exhilarating debut” (Kirstin Valdez-Quade), perfect for readers of Ann Hood and Jenny Offill.



The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp EtnaMira Ptacin


Hardcover

On sale: October 29th, 2019

ISBN-13: 978-1631493812$26.95

“A brilliant work and a fabulous read.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert“Deft, immersive… a marvelous exploration of a lost bit of history.” ― Susan OrleanThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin’s haunting account of the women of Camp Etna―a community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the links between the mortal realm and the afterlife. Blending memoir, ethnography, and investigative reportage, The In-Betweens offers a vital portrait of Camp Etna and our enduring search for connection and otherworldliness.

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