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The queen of beach reads (New York Magazine) delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel. Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime...

The quintessential story of what it means to be the first generation to live two lives across one border, The House of Broken Angels is Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea's unforgettable...

The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico.It is 1889, and civil war is brewing in...

When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried...

The Ianda NovelAuthor: Elin HilderbrandPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Mar 01, 2011Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316043885ISBN-13: 9780316043885

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred...

The instant New York Times bestseller is "a fun, delightful, un-putdownable novel" about two identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike . . . or live more differently (PopSugar). Nantucket...

The Invitation - 9780316272902Author: Lucy FoleyPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Aug 01, 2017Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316272906ISBN-13:...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a family that must face their darkest fears--and deepest secrets--when they go on the run for their lives...

The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an...

The 40 best books of 2016 you must read immediately -- New York Post The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong...

Ted Thompson's shrewdly funny and finely observed novel about a man who must reckon with the high cost of the good life. Now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix, directed by Nicole...

The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to...

The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something...

This "profound and disturbing" (New York Times Book Review) bestseller written by a Guant?namo prisoner will soon be a major feature film starring Jodie Foster and Tahar Rahim. When The Mauritanian...

In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved...

A taut, psychologically gripping novel... Leipciger has Margaret Atwood's rare flair for crafting an intelligent and suspenseful novel.--Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs Tragedy erupts in...

In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the...

Author: Jake TapperPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 704 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316425222ISBN-13: 9780316425223

Author: Annie JacobsenPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jun 07, 2016Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316371661ISBN-13: 9780316371667

The Perfect Couple - 9780316375252Author: Elin HilderbrandPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Feb 2019Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 031637525XISBN-13:...

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten...

In this stunning bestseller that inspired the Amazon Prime series, praised as "our era's Handmaid's Tale," a fierce new power has emerged--and only women have it (Washington Post). In The Power, the...

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between them when one marries now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx.Author: Thomas SavagePublisher:...

Critically acclaimed, "reads like a detective story," (Washington Post) "one of the most outlandish true crime capers of the season," (Daily Beast) and the basis for the podcast The Queen, Slate...

A BEST BOOK OF 2019: Library Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and Financial Times From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt...

Author: Nancy GoldstonePublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Apr 19, 2016Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316409669ISBN-13: 9780316409667

A friendship is tested in this "thrilling" page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand (Us Weekly). Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket...

Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers. Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water...

Author: Steven GainesPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Date: Jun 03, 2006Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0316154555ISBN-13: 9780316154550