Author: Gigi Levangie Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: February 11, 2020 Book Description: When he changes the locks, she changes the rules. Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife – she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her…
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Author: Colleen Hoover Genre: Contemporary Fiction/YA Publisher: Montlake Romance Publication Date: December 10, 2019 Book Description: Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan…
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Author: Dan Bevacqua Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: May 1, 2020 Book Description: A haunting and provocative debut novel about the stratospheric rise of an enigmatic Hollywood star and her legacy in the vein of Daisy Jones and the Six, from Columbia MFA graduate Dan Bevacqua. Molly Bit doesn’t believe she’s…
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Author: Kiley Reid Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: G.P. Putnam Publication Date: December 31, 2020 Book Description: A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that…
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Author: J.T. Ellison Genre: Psychological Thriller Publisher: MIRA Publication Date: December 30, 2019 Book Description: Goode girls don’t lie… Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential,…
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Author: Emily Nemens Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: February 4, 2020 Book Description: An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens, the editor of The Paris Review Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in…
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Author: Lisbeth Zornig Andersen; Trans: Mark Mussari Genre: Memoir Publisher: AmazonCrossing Publication Date: March 3, 2020 Book Description: An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older…
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