The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar

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Author: Thrity Umrigar



From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review
calls a “perceptive and . . . piercing writer,” comes a profound,
heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets,
forgiveness, and second chances.

An experienced psychologist,
Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But
when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her
professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India,
Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a
domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and
grocery store.

Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her
home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman
doesn’t need a shrink; she needs a friend. Determined to empower Lakshmi
as a woman who feels valued in her own right, Maggie abandons protocol,
and soon doctor and patient have become close friends.

But while
their relationship is deeply affectionate, it is also warped by
conflicting expectations. When Maggie and Lakshmi open up and share
long-buried secrets, the revelations will jeopardize their close bond,
shake their faith in each other, and force them to confront painful
choices.

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• Print Length: 336 pages


• Publisher: Harper (August 19, 2014)


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• Language: English


• ASIN: B00GWKTTQS

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An Unwilling Accomplice by Charles Todd

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Author: Charles Todd

World War I Battlefield nurse Bess
Crawford’s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her
watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.

 Home
on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier
confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he’s to be
decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect
Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold
Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry.

Then
comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the
already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he’s killed a
man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and
uncover the truth. But the elusive soldier has disappeared again and
even the Shropshire police have lost him. Suddenly, the moral
implications of what has happened that a patient in her charge has
committed murder become more important to Bess than her own future.
She’s going to solve this mysterious puzzle, but righting an injustice
and saving her honor may just cost Bess her life.

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• Print Length: 352 pages


• Publisher: William Morrow (August 12, 2014)


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• Language: English


• ASIN: B00G2ACIY8

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The Truth about Leo by Katie MacAlister

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Author: Katie MacAlister



The much-anticipated, brand-new Regency romance from New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister.



Can Dagmar flee Denmark

Dagmar Marie Sophie is a poverty-stricken Danish princess whose annoying royal cousin is about to have her stuffed away in a convent. When she finds a wounded man unconscious in her garden, she sees a way out of her desperate situation.



By Lying to Leo?

Leopold Ernst George Mortimer, seventh earl of March, and spy in the service of the king, finds himself on the wrong end of a saber and left for dead. He wakes up not remembering what happened...in the care of a beautiful woman who says she is his wife.



Back in London, Leo-with the help of his old friends the eccentric Britton family-sets out to unravel what he's forgotten... Is Dagmar truly the wonderful, irrepressible woman who makes his heart sing, or is she a dangerous enigma bent on his destruction?



RT Book Reviews praise for Katie MacAlister:



"Cheerful mayhem and...witty banter that sparkles...MacAlister is a rare talent."



"Saucy, sexy, and outrageously fun."

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• Print Length: 384 pages


• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (August 5, 2014)


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The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

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Author: Jessie Burton

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam a city
ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion a masterful debut
steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of
Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.

”There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .“

On
a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in
Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader
Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming.
Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his
warehouse office leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued
and forbidding Marin.

But Nella’s world changes when Johannes
presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica
of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a
miniaturist an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror
their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways . . .

Johannes’
gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household.
But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand and
fear the escalating dangers that await them all. In this repressively
pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be
different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man
as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that
awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation . . . or the
architect of their destruction?

Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.

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• Print Length: 416 pages


• Publisher: Ecco (August 26, 2014)


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• Language: English


• ASIN: B00H1UK3UO

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Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips


New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charm

Deepest winter.
An isolated island off the coast of Maine.
A man. A woman.
Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .)
And . . .
A mysterious house looming over the sea . . .

He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now.

Annie Hewitt has arrived on Peregrine Island in the middle of a snowstorm and at the end of her resources. She's broke, dispirited, but not quite ready to give up. Her red suitcases hold the puppets she uses to make her living: sensible Dilly, spunky Scamp, and Leo, the baddest of bad guys. Her puppets, the romantic novels she loves, and a little bit of courage are all she has left.

Annie couldn't be more ill prepared for what she finds when she reaches Moonraker Cottage or for the man who dwells in Harp House, the mysterious mansion that hovers above the cottage. When she was a teenager, he betrayed her in a way she can never forget or forgive. Now they're trapped together on a frozen island along with a lonely widow, a mute little girl, and townspeople who don't know how to mind their own business.

Is he the villain she remembers, or has he changed? Her head says no. Her heart says yes.

It's going to be a long, hot winter.

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• Print Length: 384 pages


• Publisher: William Morrow (August 26, 2014)


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Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

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Author: Amy Bloom



“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”



So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.



Disappointed
by their families, Iris, the hopeful star and Eva the sidekick, journey
through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions
take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station
wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and
to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island.



With
their friends in high and low places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine
though a landscape of big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled
with gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising events, Lucky Us
is a thrilling and resonant novel about success and failure, good luck
and bad, the creation of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable
perils of family life, conventional and otherwise. From Brooklyn’s
beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people
love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd,
heroic species.

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• Print Length: 257 pages


• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1400067243


• Publisher: Random House (July 29, 2014)


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• Language: English


• ASIN: B00IBZ5ZRY

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One Kick by Chelsea Cain

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Author: Chelsea Cain



From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set.



Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America’s hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that will put her talents to the test.



Trained as a marksman, lock picker, escape artist and bomb maker by her abductor, Kick could not return to the life of the average young girl after her release. So, in lieu of therapy, she mastered martial arts, boxing, and knife throwing; learned how to escape from the trunk of a car, jimmy a pair of handcuffs, and walk without making a sound all before she was thirteen.



Kick has trained herself to be safe. But then two children go missing in three weeks, and an enigmatic and wealthy former weapons dealer approaches her with a proposition. John Bishop uses his fortune and contacts to track down missing children. Not only is he convinced Kick can help recover the two children he won’t take no for an answer.



With lives hanging in the balance, Kick is set to be the crusader she has always imagined herself. Little does she know that the answers she and Bishop seek are hidden in one of the few places she doesn’t want to navigate the dark corners of her own mind.



A heart-stopping, entertaining thrill ride, One Kick announces the arrival of a blistering new series by a stunning talent in the thriller realm.

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• Print Length: 320 pages


• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 19, 2014)


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