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THE ART OF CRASH LANDING

Broke and knocked up, Mattie Wallace has got all

her worldly possessions crammed into six giant

trash bags and nowhere to go. Try as she might,

she really is turning into her late mother, a broken

alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t

make.

When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left

by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn

things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred

miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy,

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THE BOOK OF UNKNOWN AMERICANS

Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole

lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteenyear-

old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible

injury, one that casts doubt on whether she’ll ever be the same. And so,

leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single

dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel

can get better.

When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar

Tree store, it is love at first sight.

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FOR TODAY I AM A BOY

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

2015 PEN/Hemingway Award, Finalist

A fiercely assured debut novel about four second-generation

Chinese sisters, one of whom happens

to be a boy.

At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name

Juan Chaun, “powerful king.” To his parents, newly

settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted

only son in a sea of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his immigrant

father’s dreams of Western masculinity.

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THE GREEN ROAD

Available now in hardcover and ebook. Coming to

paperback in May 2016.

From internationally acclaimed author Anne

Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small

town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road

is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and

selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human

heart and how we strive to fill them.

Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch

of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling

irreparably apart.

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THE LAST PILOT

Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the U.S. Air Force,

one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating

death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his

nights at his friend Pancho’s bar, often with his wife,

Grace. She and Harrison are secretly desperate for

a child-and when, against all odds, Grace learns

that she is pregnant, the two are overcome with joy.

While America becomes swept up in the fervor of

the Space Race, Harrison turns his attention home,

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SOME LUCK

National Book Award Nominee

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage

1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children. With the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change through the early 1950s,

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