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The Nickel Boys

A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 16 Jul 2019

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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black...

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The Invited

A Novel

by Jennifer McMahon

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 30 Apr 2019

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A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one . . .

In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres...

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The Most Fun We Ever Had

A Novel

by Claire Lombardo

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 25 Jun 2019

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"Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like she's been alive for a thousand."
--Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers

A dazzling, multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love...

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The Castle on Sunset

Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

by Shawn Levy

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 07 May 2019

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"Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed
"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair
"I want to live inside this book!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid

The definitive history of Hollywood's most iconic, storied, and scandalous hotel

For ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favored the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. An...

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Southern Lady Code

Essays

by Helen Ellis

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 16 Apr 2019

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"I loved it." —Ann Patchett

The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a...

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Machines Like Me

A Novel

by Ian McEwan

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 23 Apr 2019

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New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act

Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam...

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Haunting Paris

A Novel

by Mamta Chaudhry

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 18 Jun 2019

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A timeless story of love and loss is transformed when a bereaved pianist discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover's possessions, launching her headlong into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris.

In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution...

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The Porpoise

A Novel

by Mark Haddon

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 18 Jun 2019

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From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present

Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja...

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Delayed Rays of a Star

A Novel

by Amanda Lee Koe

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 09 Jul 2019

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A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century

At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captures three very different women together in one frame: up-and-coming German actress Marlene...

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All the Wrong Moves

A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

by Sasha Chapin

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 13 Aug 2019

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"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."
--Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker

Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp--the game has consumed his life and...

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The Ministry of Truth

The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

by Dorian Lynskey

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.

1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure...

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Empty Hearts

A Novel

by Juli Zeh

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 20 Aug 2019

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A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit; there's a global financial...

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Summerlings

A Novel

by Lisa Howorth

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 06 Aug 2019

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Written with humor and poignancy, Summerlings is a powerful testament to love and friendship amid uncertain times--a Cold War coming-of-age story in which three best friends confront their fears of the Bomb, Russian spies, bullies, and their role in the tragic event that ushers them into adulthood.

It's the summer of 1959. For the families who live on...

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Family of Origin

A Novel

by CJ Hauser

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 16 Jul 2019

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"Family of Origin is a meditation on a singularly unique family that opens up to embrace all of us, every single family, every human being, and it doesn't let go. It's amazing...a supremely weird novel that displays humor and heartbreak in equal measure."
--Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang

When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent...

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Black Sun

A Novel

by Owen Matthews

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 23 Jul 2019

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For fans of Red Sparrow and Child 44 comes a chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history, a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire.

It is the...

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Running to the Edge

A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed

by Matthew Futterman

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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Visionary American running coach Bob Larsen assembled a mismatched team of elite California runners . . . the start of his decades-long quest for championships, Olympic glory, and pursuit of "the epic run."

In the dusty hills above San Diego, Bob Larsen became America's greatest running coach. Starting with a ragtag group of high school cross country and...


The Nickel Boys 16 Jul 2019 Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction	The Invited 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	The Most Fun We Ever Had 25 Jun 2019 Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction	The Castle on Sunset 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Southern Lady Code 16 Apr 2019 Humor

Machines Like Me 23 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Haunting Paris 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction	The Porpoise 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Delayed Rays of a Star 09 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	All the Wrong Moves 13 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)

The Ministry of Truth 04 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Family of Origin 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Black Sun 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers

Running to the Edge 04 Jun 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Sports


The Nickel Boys 16 Jul 2019 Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction	The Invited 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	The Most Fun We Ever Had 25 Jun 2019 Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction	The Castle on Sunset 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)

Southern Lady Code 16 Apr 2019 Humor	Machines Like Me 23 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Haunting Paris 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction	The Porpoise 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Delayed Rays of a Star 09 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	All the Wrong Moves 13 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	The Ministry of Truth 04 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers

Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Family of Origin 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Black Sun 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Running to the Edge 04 Jun 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Sports


The Nickel Boys 16 Jul 2019 Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction	The Invited 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers

The Most Fun We Ever Had 25 Jun 2019 Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction	The Castle on Sunset 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)

Southern Lady Code 16 Apr 2019 Humor	Machines Like Me 23 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Haunting Paris 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction	The Porpoise 18 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Delayed Rays of a Star 09 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	All the Wrong Moves 13 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)

The Ministry of Truth 04 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers

Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Family of Origin 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Black Sun 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Running to the Edge 04 Jun 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Sports

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