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Anthony
Capella
The Various Flavors of Coffee
978-0-553-80732-5 | $22.00 | Bantam | HC | Available
It was a cup of coffee that changed Robert Wallis’s
life—and a cup of very bad coffee at that. The impoverished
poet is sitting in a London coffeehouse contemplating an uncertain
future when he is offered the very last thing a struggling young
artist could possibly want: a job. But the job Wallis accepts—
employing his palate and talent for words to compose a “vocabulary
of coffee”—is only the beginning.
Carol
Goodman
The Night Villa
978-0-345-47960-0 | $14.00 |
Ballantine | TR | Available
An evocative tale of intrigue, romance, and
treachery, The Night Villa follows the fascinating
lives of two remarkable women centuries apart.The eruption of
Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 buried a city and its
people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes
of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the
life of classics professor Sophie Chase.
Ann Packer
Songs Without Words
978-0-375-72717-7 | $14.95 |
Vintage | TR | Available
The gripping story of a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking
point. Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs
of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide
of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship
remained a source of strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter
enters dangerous waters, the women's friendship takes a devastating
turn.
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Karen
Maitland
Company of Liars
978-0-385-34169-1 | $24.00 | Delacorte | HC |
Sept.
With Company of Liars, Karen Maitland
presents a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and
powerful human drama. The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips
the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate
strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain
death that is running inexorably toward them.
978-1-59051-306-4 | $14.95 | Other Press | TR
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When Morgan Cary flies home to Hawaii after a
decade spent in California, he arrives with a broken heart and
an overwhelming sense of guilt surrounding the death of his wife.
As he spirals further into his grief, the hope of a deliverance
into the future appears through an unexpected friendship with
a native Hawaiian family, and forces Morgan to sift through the
worst of his memories as he searches for his life in the solace
of the sea.
Alexander
McCall Smith
The Careful Use of Compliments
978-1-4000-7712-0 | $13.95 |
Anchor | HC | Available
When Isabel Dalhousie recognizes that two paintings
attributed to a deceased artist have simultaneously appeared on
the market, she can't help but think that they're forgeries. So
Isabel begins an investigation and soon finds herself diverted
from her musings about parenthood and onto a path of inquiry into
the soul of an artist.
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