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Earth
2024 || Hardcover || John Boyne || Doubleday
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected.
It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt.
As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, his life has been a l...
Lies and Weddings
2024 || Paperback || Kevin Kwan || Doubleday
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s wedding and seduce a woman with money.
Will it be the French hotel heiress with a royal bloodline? Or the venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or will Rufus betray his family and confess his love to the literal girl next door? Wh...
Framed
astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
2024 || Hardcover || John Grisham e.a. || Doubleday
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Paperback || Marianne Cronin || Doubleday
'Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore' JOANNA CANNON
'Heartwarming, remarkable stories' BBC BOOKS FOR 2021
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Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.
Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-th...
This Motherless Land
2024 || Paperback || Nikki May || Doubleday
'A spirited exploration of culture and kinship--of how we belong, and to whom' BONNIE GARMUS
'Proves that love has the power to save a life again and again. Deeply emotional and entertaining, this is a novel to treasure' EMMA STONEX, author of The Lamplighters
'A vibrant coming-of-age story that explores love, longing and belonging in a multi-cultural family' CHARMAINE WILKERSON, bestselling author of Black Cake
'Gripping and poignant' NITA PROSE, bestselling author of The Maid
'Beautiful, bo...
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Harlem Shuffle
Paperback || Colson Whitehead || Doubleday
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her pa...
The Boys from Biloxi
2022 || Hardcover || John Grisham || Doubleday
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. Grisham takes his powerful storytelling to the next level, his trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor...
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When Women Were Dragons
2022 || Paperback || Kelly Barnhill || Doubleday
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. • The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and ...
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She and her Cat
2022 || Hardcover || Makoto Shinkai || Doubleday
Award winning director Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work.
Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai returns with an adaptation of his very first work. Recently adapted into a TV series She and Her Cat is a slice of life story of loneliness, sadness and eventually perseverance expressed by a young woman many people can relate to.
On a rainy Spring day, a young woman finds a cat she would come to call Chobi outside and brings him home with her. Chobi falls ...
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The Titanic Survivors Book Club
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Schaffert || Doubleday
"Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller."
—Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept
From the author of The Perfume Thief, a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors.
For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at s...