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Chronicles of a Liquid Society

by Umberto Eco

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 14 Nov 2017

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A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco.

Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L’Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand of matchbook that had two white spaces inside, useful for brief jottings. Eco intended...

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Garden of the Lost and Abandoned

The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves

by Jessica Yu

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 07 Nov 2017

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The fascinating and joyful story of Gladys Kalibbala, a Ugandan "orphan sleuth," who works to connect missing and castaway children to their families.

The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of...

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The Night Market

by Jonathan Moore

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 16 Jan 2018

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From an author who consistently gives us “suspense that never stops” (James Patterson), a near-future thriller that makes your most paranoid fantasies seem like child’s play.

It’s late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city’s last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that’s...

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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 17 Oct 2017

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Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising...

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The First Day

by Phil Harrison

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 24 Oct 2017

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Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways

Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their...

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It's Not Yet Dark

A Memoir

by Simon Fitzmaurice

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 01 Aug 2017

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In a memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and My Left Foot and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker diagnosed with ALS gives us “a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more, of love and struggle and the power of both” (Joseph O'Connor).

In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with ALS, or...

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Silencer

by Marcus Wicker

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 05 Sep 2017

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Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Oddisee meet traditional verse in this urgent collection of poems by Pushcart winner and NAACP Image Award finalist Marcus Wicker

Welcome to Marcus Wicker’s Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police...

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The Asshole Survival Guide

How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

by Robert I. Sutton

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 12 Sep 2017

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How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule

“Help, I’m dealing with an asshole! What can I do?”

Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has heard that question asked in a thousand different ways. He answers the question in a new book that...

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The Book of Separation

by Tova Mirvis

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 19 Sep 2017

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The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted...

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Never Coming Back

by Alison McGhee

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 10 Oct 2017

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When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known. ...

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Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

by Amy Stewart

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 05 Sep 2017

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The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.

Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The...

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The Blood Card

by Elly Griffiths

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 05 Sep 2017

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In the third Magic Men mystery, the first partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II’s coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?

Elizabeth II’s coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortuneteller. Meanwhile, his old pal, the...

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After the Eclipse

A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

by Sarah Perry

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 26 Sep 2017

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A fierce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life.

When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much...

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Bannerless

by Carrie Vaughn

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 11 Jul 2017

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A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.

Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new...

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The Streak

Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record

by John Eisenberg

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 04 Jul 2017

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The fascinating story of baseball’s most legendary “Iron Men,” Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig, who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played

When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he’d beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a row set by...

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The Fourth Monkey

by J.D. Barker

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 27 Jun 2017

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Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called, “A talented writer with a delightfully devious mind.”

For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which...

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The Sisters Chase

by Sarah Healy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 27 Jun 2017

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A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge

The hardscrabble Chase women—Mary, Hannah, and their mother Diane—have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations, inviting trouble into...

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The Dark Net

by Benjamin Percy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 01 Aug 2017

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Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy’s terrifying new horror novel

The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is...

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The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo

by Ian Stansel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 04 Jul 2017

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A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband’s killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family

When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother’s wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge...

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The Chalk Pit

by Elly Griffiths

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 30 May 2017

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In the ninth Ruth Galloway mystery, Ruth and Nelson investigate a string of murders and disappearances deep within the abandoned tunnels hidden far beneath the streets of Norwich.

Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one’s sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she...

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The Weight of Ink

by Rachel Kadish

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 06 Jun 2017

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An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a...

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You Play the Girl

On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

by Carina Chocano

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub Date 08 Aug 2017

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In this zippy, intelligent call to arms, a former film and TV critic merges memoir and cultural commentary to break down how women have been watching, making, and playing in the all-media funhouse.

Who is “The Girl”? Look to Hollywood and find the usual answer, one projected on millions of screens every day: she holds The Hero’s hand as he runs through the...

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