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Something Like Happy
Eva Woods
Graydon House
Hardcover
On sale: September 5th
ISBN-13: 9781525811357
$26.99
Jojo Moyes meets Emily Giffin in this poignant, uplifting tale of the power of friendship and
the importance of living each day to the fullest.
Best Day Ever
Kaira Rouda
Graydon House
Hardcover
On sale: September 19th
ISBN-13: 9781525811401
$26.99
For fans of Liane Moriarty; Best Day Ever explores the fault lines lurking beneath the
façade of a perfect life.
Hanna Who Fell From The Sky
Christopher Meades
Park Row Books
Hardcover
On sale: September 26th
ISBN-13: 9780778328735
$24.99
A magical tale, perfect for book clubs, in the vein of “Big Love,” The 19th Wife and The
Book of Speculation.
Lie To Me
J.T. Ellison
Mira
Trade Paperback Original
On sale: September 5th
ISBN-13: 9780778330950
$15.99
The breakout standalone domestic noir that will appeal to fans of Mary Kubica, Gilly
Macmillan and Ruth Ware.
Rosie Colored Glasses
Brianna Wolfson
Mira
Hardcover
On sale: February 20th, 2018
ISBN-13: 9780778330691
$26.99
A debut novel about the impact of mental illness on family with the quirk of Maria Semple’s
Where’d You Go Bernadette and the emotional impact of Jonathan Safran Foer’s
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
The Black Painting
Neil Olson
Hanover Square Press
Hardcover
On sale: January 9th, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781335953810
$26.99
An atmospheric suspense novel about an old-money family facing an unexpected death,
an unsolved theft, and a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. Perfect for fans of The
Goldfinch and The Nest.
The Second Sister
Claire Kendal
Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
On sale: September 26th
ISBN-13: 9780062297648
$15.99
An obsessive quest to solve the mystery of her older sister’s disappearance puts a young
woman in mortal jeopardy in this taut, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense from
the author of the “truly riveting” (New York Times) The Book of You. An intoxicating cocktail
of loyalty and secrets, lies and betrayal, reminiscent of Rosamund Lupton’s Sister and
Kimberly McCreight’s Reconstructing Amelia.
The Boat Runner
Devin Murphy
Harper Perennial
Paperback
On sale: September 5th
ISBN-13: 9780062658012
$15.99
In the tradition of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale comes an
incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the
perilousness of World War II.
The House at Baker Street
Michelle Birkby
Harper Perennial
Paperback
On sale: October 24th
ISBN-13: 9780062680198
$15.99
Moriarty meets Longbourn in this enthralling debut novel featuring the adventures of Mrs.
Hudson and Mary Watson, perfect for fans of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series.
Even If It Kills Her
Kate White
Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
On sale: October 31st
ISBN-13: 9780062448873
$15.99
Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins series with a riveting
new psychological thriller featuring this beloved true-crime journalist turned amateur sleuth
in her most spellbinding case to date.
The Library at the Edge of the World
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Harper Perennial
Paperback
On sale: November 14th
ISBN-13: 9780062663726
$15.99
In the bestselling tradition of Fannie Flagg and Jenny Colgan comes Felicity Hayes-
McCoy’s U.S. debut about a local librarian who must find a way to rebuild her community
and her own life in this touching, enchanting novel set on Ireland’s stunning West Coast.
Someone You Love is Gone
Gurjinder Basran
Harper Perennial
Paperback
On sale: November 7th
ISBN-13: 9780062674609
$15.99
Perfect for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Anne Tyler, Someone You Love Is Gone is a
beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets and ghosts that haunt a family.
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
Heather Harpham
Henry Holt
Hardcover
On sale: August 1st
ISBN-13: 9781250131560
$27.00
A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists
of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.
Real American A Memoir
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Henry Holt
Hardcover
On sale: August 15th
ISBN-13: 9781250137746
PRICE: $26.00
A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise An Adult author
Julie Lythcott-Haims pull no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black
woman in America.
My Life With Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
Pamela Paul
Henry Holt
Hardcover
On sale: May 2nd
ISBN-13: 9781627796316
PRICE: $27.00
Imagine keeping a record of every book you’ve ever read. What would this reading
trajectory say about you? With passion, humor and insight, the editor of the New York
Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her life.
Venetian Blood
Christine Evelyn Volker
She Writes Press
Paperback
On sale: August 8th
ISBN-13: 9781631523106
$16.95
To escape a failing marriage, Anna Lucia Lottol goes to Venice to visit an old friend --- and
becomes a suspect in a brutal murder echoing a gruesome homicide that happened
decades ago. Fearful of foreign justice and hoping to prove her innocence, she gathers
clues before the real murderer comes for her. At the climax of her journey, she discovers a
secret that will change her life.
A Kind of Justice
Renee James
Oceanview
Paperback
On sale: September 19th
ISBN-13: 9781608092659
$16.00
Bobbi Logan finally has it all. She's a celebrated hairdresser, a successful entrepreneur,
and a leader in the transgender community. But Bobbi has secrets, as well as a tough
transphobic cop on her trail. As the detective builds an ever more convincing case against
her, both of them will be shaken by revelations --- about themselves, about their own
deeply held secrets and about the bizarre ritual murder of John Strand.
Crossing the Lines
Sulari Gentill
Poisoned Pen Press
Paperback
On sale: August 1st
ISBN-13: 9781464209161
$15.95
Crossing the Lines is about the process of creation and its seductive pull as the act of
writing spirals away and merges with the story being told, a self-referring narrative crossing
over boundaries leaving in question who to trust, and who and what is true.
The Punch Escrow
Tal Klein
Inkshares
Paperback
On sale: July 25th
ISBN-13: 9781942645580
$14.99
Joel Byram, our smartass protagonist, is an everyday 25th century guy. He spends his
days training artificial-intelligence engines to act more human, jamming out to 1980s
new wave --- an extremely obscure genre, and trying to salvage his deteriorating
marriage. Joel is pretty much an everyday guy with everyday problems --- until he’s
accidentally duplicated while teleporting. Now Joel must outsmart the shadowy
organization that controls teleportation, outrun the religious sect out to destroy it and
find a way to get back to the woman he loves in a world that now has two of him.
I'm the One Who Got Away
Andrea Jarrell
She Writes Press
Paperback
On sale: September 5th
ISBN-13: 9781631522604
$16.95
Fugitives from a man as alluring as he is violent, Andrea Jarrell and her mother escape
Andrea's father together and develop a powerful and unusual bond. Once grown, Jarrell
thinks she’s put that chapter of her life behind her --- until a woman she knows is
murdered, and she suddenly sees that it's her mother's choices she's been trying to
escape all along.
Life's Too Short to Go So F*uckng Slow
Susan Lacke
VeloPress
Paperback
On sale: November 10th
ISBN-13: 9781937715656
$18.95
They were unlikely friends. She was a young, overweight college professor with a pack-
and-a-half-a-day habit and a bad attitude. He was her boss, and an accomplished Ironman
triathlete. She was a whiner, he was a hardass. He had his shit together, she most
assuredly did not. Amusing and poignant, Life’s Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow is about
running and triathlon, growth and heartbreak, and an epic friendship that went the
distance.
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.
Danielle Allen
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
On sale: September 5th
ISBN-13: 9781631493119
$24.95
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration
nothing less than a new American tragedy.
Michael Alexander Allen, baby cousin of an extended family, was first arrested at fifteen for
an attempted carjacking. Tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years, Michael served
eleven. Three years after his release, he was shot and killed. Why? Why did this gifted
young man, who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he
languish in prison? In this Ellisonian story of a young African American man’s coming-of-
age in late 20th-century America, and of the family who will always love Michael, we learn
how we lost a generation.
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder
Piu Eatwell
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
On sale: October 10th
ISBN-13: 9781631492266
$26.95
With startling new evidence, this gripping reexamination of the Black Dahlia murder offers
a definitive theory of a quintessential American crime.
The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of
1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime
mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell --- relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist --- cracks the
case after seventy years. In mesmerizing prose, Black Dahlia, Red Rose is a panorama of
1940s Hollywood, a definitive account of one of the biggest unsolved murders of American
legal history.
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
Monica Hesse
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
On sale: July 11th
ISBN-13: 9781631490514
$26.95
A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story,
redefining American tragedy for our time.
Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left a rural Virginia county reeling, Washington
Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to the desolate county of Accomack to cover the
trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. Over two years of reporting,
Hesse uncovered the motives of this troubled addict and his struggling accomplice,
girlfriend Tonya Bundick. A mesmerizing and crucial panorama with nationwide
implications, American Fire brings to life the Eastern Shore and its inhabitants, battling a
punishing economy and increasingly terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. The
result evokes the soul of rural America --- a land half gutted before the fires even began.