(Atria) A battered wife raised in a violent home attempts to halt the cycle of abuse.ġ4.

(Ballantine) A man who shepherds retirees to an island where their bodies are renewed and memories wiped clean questions everything he once believed.ġ3. (Scribner) Nine years after being cast out, a young woman returns to reclaim her place in her family and comes into her own as a bootlegger.ġ2. (Knopf) Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.ġ1. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Dial) In this homage to Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a young man’s dark past resurfaces as he gets to know the family of his college sweetheart.ġ0. (Atria) When an illustrated book offering potential clues arrives years after World War II, a woman in London delves into her past.ĩ. THE SECRET BOOK OF FLORA LEA, by Patti Callahan Henry. (Grand Central) A former detective becomes the prime suspect in a murder case involving a man with mob ties who was in witness protection.Ĩ. (Delacorte) An unmarried wedding planner contends with problems, secrets and scandals.ħ. (Doubleday) A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.Ħ. (Grove) Three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast suffer the loss of a family member by drowning.ĥ. THE COVENANT OF WATER, by Abraham Verghese.

(Little, Brown) The 23rd book in the Women’s Murder Club series. THE 23RD MIDNIGHT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

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