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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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The Flames
2022 || Paperback || Sophie Haydock || Doubleday
Every painting tells a story, but what if the women on the canvas could talk...
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art, lead by Gustav Klimt until the arrival of his scandalous protegee, Egon Schiele. Into this world come four women, each with their own story to tell:
ADELE: passionate, fierce, obstinate. The daughter of a bourgeois family, she rails against the strictures of her class and yearns for free...
The Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
2024 || Paperback || Mizuki Tsujimura || Doubleday
Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million-copy Japanese magical realist mystery for fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR
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I bring together the living and the departed. I am the Go-Between.
When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world - at least, this is ...
The Blue Hour
2024 || Paperback || Paula Hawkins || Doubleday
‘Paula Hawkins is a genius’ LISA JEWELL
When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there.
Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the mainland for just a few hours each day, and home to only one inhabitant, The Blue Hour asks questions of ambition, power, art and perception.
'A new Paula Hawkins novel is always a cause for celebration. Her books have all the pleasing twists...
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Why We Remember
unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
2024 || Paperback || Charan Ranganath || Doubleday
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing.
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think abo...