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Between Two Fires
The Illness Lesson
Joshua Yaffa
Clare Beams
HC: 978-1-5247-6059-5 eBook: 978-1-5247-6061-8 AD: 978-0-593-16709-0 Tim Duggan Books | 40,000 January 14, 2020
HC: 978-0-385-54466-5 eBook: 978-0-385-54467-2 AD:978-0-593-16952-0 Doubleday | 50,000 February 11, 2020
From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.
Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why.
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Josie Silver
Bess Kalb
HC: 978-0-593-13523-5 eBook: 978-0-593-13524-2 AD: 978-0-593-15164-8 LP: 978-0-593-21240-0 Ballantine Books | 100,000 March 3, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-65471-1 eBook: 978-0-525-65472-8 AD: 978-0-593-16972-8 Knopf | 100,000 March 17, 2020
In this next captivating love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December, a young woman is reunited with her late fiancĂŠ in a parallel life. But is this happy ending the one she really wants?
A funny, warm, and brilliantly original memoir in which a grandmother speaks to her granddaughter from beyond the grave, telling, with candor and irresistible humor, stories from both their lives—of kinship, loyalty, tenacity, and love.
The Holdout
We Ride Upon Sticks
Graham Moore
Quan Barry
HC: 978-0-399-59177-8 eBook: 978-0-399-59178-5 AD: 978-0-593-15456-4 Random House | 100,000 February 18, 2020
HC: 978-1-5247-4809-8 eBook: 978-1-5247-4810-4 AD: 978-0-593-17032-8 Pantheon | 40,000 March 3, 2020
From the author of the widely From the Academy Awardacclaimed She Weeps Each Time winning screenwriter of You're Born, a comic tour de The Imitation Game and female force about a 1980s field bestselling author of hockey team. The Last Days of Night: a jury on a murder trial is deadlocked when a young woman manages to turn the tide to acquit and, now, a decade later, she must face the consequences.
Bag Man
The Glass Hotel
Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz
Emily St. John Mandel
HC: 978-0-593-13668-3 eBook: 978-0-593-13669-0 Crown | 150,000 March 17, 2020 The untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious cover-up, and spectacular downfall of Vice President Spiro.
HC: 978-0-525-52114-3 eBook: 978-0-525-52115-0 AD: 978-0-525-59670-7 CD: 978-0-525-59667-7 LP: 978-0-593-17173-8 Knopf | 200,000 March 24, 2020 From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, whitecollar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise.
This Is Chance!
The Immortals of Tehran
Jon Mooallem
Ali Araghi
HC: 978-0-525-50991-2 eBook: 978-0-525-50993-6 AD: 978-0-593-15468-7 Random House | 75,000 March 24, 2020
HC: 978-1-61219-818-7 eBook: 978-1-61219-819-4 Melville House | 50,000 April 7, 2020
HC: 978-1-64129-041-8 eBook: 978-1-64129-042-5 Soho Crime | 100,000 April 7, 2020
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the unlikely woman around whom it pulled together.
This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution—and marks the debut of a literary talent to watch.
History books agree that in June of 1940, after Paris had fallen to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light. What has been lost to posterity is why he left in such a hurry— and why he never came back.
The Book of Lost Friends
Pretty Things
Lisa Wingate
Janelle Brown
Amity Gaige
HC: 978-1-9848-1988-8 eBook: 978-1-9848-1989-5 AD: 978-0-593-21327-8 CD: 978-0-593-21325-4 LP: 978-0-593-28641-8 Ballantine Books | 500,000 April 7, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-47912-3 eBook: 978-0-525-47913-0 AD: 978-0-593-21001-7 CD: 978-0-593-20999-8 Random House | 200,000 April 21, 2020
Sue Monk Kidd
HC: 978-0-525-65649-4 eBook: 978-0-525-65650-0 AD: 978-0-593-16962-9 Knopf | 40,000 April 28, 2020
HC: 978-0-525-42976-0 eBook: 978-0-698-40819-7 AD: 978-0-593-21284-4 CD: 978-0-593-21282-0 LP: 978-0-593-28596-1 Viking | 750,000 April 28, 2020
From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by littleknown historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives.
Two wildly different women— one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a pageturner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.
Three Hours in Paris Cara Black
Sea Wife
From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix HC: 978-1-68369-143-3 eBook: 978-1-68369-144-0 Quirk Books | 100,000 April 7, 2020 Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
The Book of Longings
"I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus." So begins the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings, an extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny in a time of great despair and great hope.
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The Mother Code
All My Mother's Lovers
The Vanishing Half
Carole Stivers
Ilana Masad
Brit Bennett
Jody Gehrman
HC: 978-1-9848-0692-5 eBook: 978-1-9848-0694-9 AD: 978-0-593-16563-8 Berkley | 75,000 May 5, 2020
HC: 978-1-5247-4597-4 eBook: 978-1-5247-4599-8 AD: 978-0-593-21112-0 Dutton | 75,000 May 26, 2020
HC: 978-1-64385-386-4 eBook: 978-1-64385-387-1 Crooked Lane Books | 35,000 June 9, 2020
In this mind-bending debut novel, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. A sciencebased, real-world premise combined with the page-turning quality of a thriller for fans of Andy Weir and Margaret Atwood.
Fans of The Female Persuasion and This Is Where I Leave You will love this warm and witty debut novel, which weaves together a coming-of-age road trip with a mother-daughter story. It centers on characters who identify as asexual and gender non-binary, grappling with lots of themes surrounding queer identity.
HC: 978-0-525-53629-1 eBook: 978-0-525-53697-0 AD: 978-0-525-63716-5 CD: 978-0-525-63713-4 LP: 978-0-593-28610-4 Riverhead | 100,000 June 2, 2020 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Girls Weekend
For fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley, a riveting locked-room mystery about five college friends eager to reunite after years apart—only to be ripped apart again when their host's disappearance unearths dark secrets and old grudges.
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Super Host
A Knock at Midnight
Seven Lies
Brittany K. Barnett
Elizabeth Kay
Jane L. Rosen
HC: 978-0-593-18770-8 eBook: 978-0-593-18771-5 AD: 978-0-593-21170-0 LP: 978-0-593-28605-0 Putnam| 100,000 June 9, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-2578-0 eBook: 978-1-9848-2579-7 AD: 978-0-593-21019-2 Crown | 75,000 June 16, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-7971-4 eBook: 978-1-9848-7972-1 AD: 978-0-593-21336-0 LP: 978-0-593-28609-8 Pamela Dorman Books | 100,000 June 16, 2020
HC: 978-0-593-10208-4 eBook: 978-0-593-10210-7 AD: 978-0-593-21373-5 Berkley | 50,000 June 23, 2020
People secretly wonder about the personal lives of their AirBnb hosts, and this novel offers fantastic insight in the people behind one fictional London rental.
An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a powerful new voice in the movement to transform the system.
Kate Russo
Told in a seductive first-person voice, this is a story full of toxic secrets, tangled friendships, and the way compulsive love can make us do the unthinkable.
Eliza Starts a Rumor
Four women, one tiny lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all in this charming, pageturning novel from the author of Nine Women, One Dress.
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The Splendid and the Vile
The Red Lotus
Erik Larson
Chris Bohjalian
HC: 978-0-385-34871-3 eBook: 978-0-385-34872-0 AD: 978-0-593-16718-2 CD: 978-0-593-16716-8 LP: 978-0-593-17207-0 Crown | 400,000 February 25, 2020
HC: 978-0-385-54480-1 eBook: 978-0-385-54481-8 AD: 978-0-593-16941-4 CD: 978-0-593-16939-1 LP: 978-0-593-17174-5 Doubleday | 125,000 March 17, 2020
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
Code Name Hélene
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh
Max Brooks
Anne Tyler
HC: 978-1-9848-7935-6 eBook: 978-1-9848-7936-3 AD: 978-0-593-16538-6 LP: 978-0-593-17190-5 Penguin Press | 75,000 April 21, 2020
HC: 978-1-9848-2678-7 eBook: 978-1-9848-2679-4 AD: 978-0-593-16808-0 LP: 978-0-593-28592-3 Del Rey | 300,000 May 12, 2020
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z reinvents the Bigfoot legend with a thriller that blends fact and fiction, natural and supernatural— human and beast.
Ariel Lawhon HC: 978-0-385-54468-9 eBook: 978-0-385-54469-6 AD: 978-0-593-16924-7 LP: 978-0-593-17175-2 Doubleday | 75,000 April 7, 2020 Based on the thrilling real-life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia.
HC: 978-0-525-65841-2 eBook: 978-0-525-65842-9 AD: 978-0-593-17075-5 CD: 978-0-593-17073-1 LP: 978-0-593-17159-2 Knopf | 200,000 April 7, 2020 From the beloved and bestselling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.
How to Be an Artist Jerry Saltz HC: 978-0-593-08646-9 eBook: 978-0-593-08647-6 AD: 978-0-593-16690-1 Riverhead Books | 75,000 March 17, 2020 Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. Brimming with rules, prompts, and practical tips, this helps artists of all kinds—painters, photographers, writers, performers—realize their dreams
It's Not All Downhill From Here Terry McMillan HC: 978-1-9848-2374-8 eBook: 978-1-9848-2376-2 AD: 978-0-593-14816-7 CD: 978-0-593-14813-6 LP: 978-0-593-15344-4 Ballantine Books | 100,000 March 31, 2020 After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
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Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker HC: 978-0-385-54376-7 eBook: 978-0-385-54377-4 AD: 978-0-593-20833-5 Doubleday | 100,000 April 7, 2020
I Want You to Know We're Still Here Esther Safran Foer HC 978-0-525-57598-6 eBook: 978-0-525-57600-6 AD: 978-0-593-16707-6 Tim Duggan Books | 75,000 March 31, 2020
The Genius of Women
The Queen's Fortune
Janice Kaplan
Allison Pataki
HC: 978-1-5247-4421-2 eBook: 978-1-5247-4422-9 AD: 978-1-9848-3234-4 Dutton | 30,000 February 18, 2020
HC: 978-0-593-12818-3 eBook: 978-0-593-12819-0 AD: 978-0-593-16720-5 Ballantine Books | 40,000 February 11, 2020
My Mother's House Francesca Momplaisir HC: 978-0-525-65715-6 eBook: 978-0-525-65716-3 AD: 978-0-593-16960-5 Knopf | 30,000 May 12, 2020
A Tender Thing
999 Heather Dune Macadam HC: 978-0-8065-3936-2 eBook: 978-0-8065-3938-6 Citadel | 10,000 December 31, 2019
Conjure Women Afia Atakora HC: 978-0-525-51148-9 eBook: 978-0-525-51149-6 AD: 978-0-593-15442-7 Random House | 75,000 March 17, 2020
All Adults Here
Emily Neuberger
Emma Straub
HC: 978-0-593-08487-8 eBook: 978-0-593-08488-5 AD: 978-0-593-16353-5 Putnam | 35,000 April 7, 2020
HC: 978-1-59463-469-7 eBook: 978-0-698-40798-5 AD: 978-0-593-16673-4 CD: 978-0-593-16671-0 LP: 978-0-593-17180-6 Riverhead Books | 150,000 May 5, 2020
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