Escape
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Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller. "My story is not unique. Single girl comes to New York; New York eats her alive. But what does stand out is my discovery that you can essentially live a life that appears to be a textbook manual for everything one can do wrong to find love—and still find Mr. Right."
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Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao. An electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstance but relentless in their search for one another.
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She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop. The forgotten granddaughter of one of New York’s wealthiest men is reunited with her family just as she comes of age—and once she’s had a glimpse of their glittering world, she refuses to let it go without a fight.
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The Elizas by Sara Shepard. When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it’s just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness.
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The Ensemble by Aja Gabel. The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.
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The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy. An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedlyconnected when one of their newborns goes missing.
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Educated by Tara Westover. She didn't enter a classroom until she was 17. Now she has a PhD from Cambridge.
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You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld. The author who made her debut with "Prep" has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her “astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers’ heads” is showcased like never before.
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Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley. From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat.
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How to Walk Away by Katherine Center. The newest release from the Houston-based New York Times-bestselling author: Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.
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Florida by Lauren Groff. In the much-anticipated return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time.
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The High Season by Judy Blundell. The Hamptons hath no fury like a woman scorned...
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You Me Everything by Catherine Isaac. Set in the French countryside on an idyllic summer vacation, a delicious, tender novel about finding joy and love even in the most unexpected places.
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Calypso by David Sedaris. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.
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When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri. From the acclaimed author of The Assistants comes another gutsy book about the importance of women taking the reins--this time, when it comes to love, sex, and self-acceptance.
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Marriage Vacation by Pauline Brooks. Marriage Vacation is for anyone who has ever fantasized about what it would be like to run away from it all.
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16 Sizzling Summer Reads
The hottest page turners to read right now.
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