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CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION DIVERSITY ROMANCE 3 Father’s Day: A Novel Forever Beach: A Novel SIMON VAN BOOY SHELLEY NOBLE The moving story of an orphaned girl From the New York Times bestselling named Harvey and the troubled uncle who author of Beach Colors and Breakwater FAMILY raises her—an unforgettable tale of loss Bay comes this heartwarming story of and redemption from the author of The love, family, and redemption. Two young Illusion of Separateness. girls pledged to be best friends forever. “Moving, redemptive new novel.... Van Separated by circumstance and hurt, they TIES are reunited years later as they struggle to Booy creates refreshing, humorous, yet poignant childhood milestones that the put their differences aside for the sake of a two reach with emotional honesty.” special little girl. —Publishers Weekly starred review Readalikes: Elin Hilderbrand, Jane Green, and Kristin Hannah Readalikes: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and What I Had William Morrow Paperbacks: pb • 9780062439062 • $15.99 • 416 pp. Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell Harper: hc • 9780062408945 • $24.99 • 304 pp. Paperback available in April 2017 • 9780062408952 The Art of Crash Landing: Be Frank With Me: A Novel The Girl from the Garden: Her Secret: A Novel A Novel MELISSA DECARLO JULIA CLAIBORNE JOHNSON A Novel PARNAZ FOROUTAN SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY A poignant, darkly funny debut novel Full of heart and countless “only-in- This stunning literary debut is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling about a young woman who travels— Hollywood” moments, Be Frank With Me suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, author Shelley Shepard Gray begins a new penniless, pregnant, and homeless—to is a captivating and unconventional story power, and vulnerability, in which a crisis series—The Amish of Hart County—with her deceased mother’s small southern of an unusual mother and son, and the of inheritance leads to the downfall of a this suspenseful tale of a young Amish hometown, and becomes embroiled in a intrepid young woman who finds herself wealthy family of Persian Jews in early woman who is forced to move to a new local mystery: what forced her mother to irresistibly pulled into their unforgettable twentieth-century Iran. town to escape a threatening stalker. flee that town thirty-five years previously? world. “The Girl from the Garden is a spectacular “Her Secret gives the reader an intriguing “The Art of Crash Landing is full of heart “Julia Claiborne Johnson has struck gold novel—a riveting, finely wrought portrait look into the life and struggles of a very and sass.… This is a sparkling, funny, and in creating Frank Banning—a one-of-a- of loss, longing, and passion in the intimate real Amish family and a believable heroine. moving debut.” —Edan Lepucki, author of kind exasperating, witty and endearing lives of an extended family in Iran.” Beautifully balancing a charming romance California nine-year-old genius who functions as the —Carolina De Robertis, author of with suspense, this story pulls at the heartstrings.” —Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author Readalikes: Jojo Moyes, Jessica Anya Blau, Jennifer Weiner, and Liane beating heart of this marvelous book.” —Julie Schumacher, author The Invisible Mountain of Fall from Pride Moriarty of Dear Committee Members Readalikes: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi and Dreams of Joy by Lisa See Avon Inspire: pb • 9780062469106 • $12.99 • 272 pp. Readalikes: Where’d You Go, Bernadette Ecco: pb • 9780062388391 • $14.99 • 288 pp. William Morrow Paperbacks: pb • 9780062390547 • $13.99 • 432 pp. On Sale March 2017 William Morrow Paperbacks: pb • 9780062413727 • $15.99 • 320 pp. Conrad & Eleanor: A Novel Every Wild Heart: A Novel Home Field: A Novel In the Quiet: A Novel JANE ROGERS MEG DONOHUE HANNAH GERSEN ELIZA HENRY-JONES From the multi-award-winning and From the USA Today bestselling author of Transporting you to the heart of small town In this moving novel of love, grief, and critically acclaimed author of The Testament Dog Crazy and All the Summer Girls comes America, Home Field is an unforgettable, the heartache of letting go, a recently of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel a mystery, a love story, and a mother- poignant debut novel about the pull of the deceased mother is able to linger on and about the devastating secrets revealed in daughter tale about two women on a past and the power of forgiveness. observe her husband and three young the midst of a disintegrating marriage. precarious journey to uncover their true “With elegant, precise prose and a children as they come to terms with their “A nuanced, pragmatic look at the long- selves. profound understanding of family, love, life without her. married state…. The novel’s strengths are “Every Wild Heart [is] a heartfelt, funny, and loss, Home Field accurately depicts the Readalikes: Of Things Gone Astray by Janina the author’s intelligence, her avoidance of poignant and suspenseful story... a complicated human heart: flawed but still Matthewson and If I Stay by Gayle Forman sentimentality, and the honest scrutiny celebration of what it means to be a working capable of compassion and forgiveness.” she brings to bear on how intimate adult mother in today’s world.” —Susan Wiggs, —Edan Lepucki, author of New York Times relationships age and settle.” #1 New York Times bestselling author of bestseller California HarperCollins: pb • 9781460753392 • $15.99 • 368 pp. • On Sale April 2017 —Kirkus Reviews Family Tree Readalikes: One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper Readalikes: Us by David Nicholls, The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger Readalikes: Saving Grace by Jane Green William Morrow Paperbacks: pb • 9780062413741 • $14.99 • 432 pp. and The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler William Morrow Paperbacks: pb • 9780062429834 • $14.99 • 288 pp. Harper Perennial: pb • 9780062423276 • $14.99 • 336 pp. On Sale March 2017 4 SUBGENRE KEY: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION DIVERSITY ROMANCE SUBGENRE KEY: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S FICTION DIVERSITY ROMANCE 5 The Mother: A Novel The Nest: A Novel The Runaway Midwife: The Space Between Sisters: YVVETTE EDWARDS CYNTHIA D’APRIX SWEENEY A Novel PATRICIA HARMAN A Butternut Lake Novel MARY MCNEAR From the author of the critically acclaimed A warm, funny, and acutely perceptive From the USA Today bestselling author Return to Butternut Lake with Mary A Cupboard Full of Coats comes a debut novel about four adult siblings and of the Hope River series comes a new McNear, whose heartfelt and powerful provocative and timely novel about an the fate of the shared inheritance that has contemporary midwife novel that asks the stories have made her a New York Times emotionally devastated mother’s struggle shaped their choices and their lives. question, “Have you ever wanted to leave and USA Today bestselling author. Here, to understand her teenage son’s death, and “In her intoxicating first novel, Cynthia your life behind?” the complicated bonds of sisterhood are her search for meaning and hope in the D’Aprix Sweeney has written an epic “From the mountains of West Virginia to tested, long-kept secrets are revealed, wake of incomprehensible loss. family story that unfolds in a deeply a remote island in Lake Erie, The Runaway and love is discovered… all during one “Love, loss, pain, race, poverty, abuse and personal way…. I couldn’t stop reading or Midwife takes us on a journey from loss, unforgettable summer at the lake. redemption are all beautifully played out in caring about the juicy and dysfunctional grief and guilt to one of love, forgiveness “This triumphant story had me reading Edwards’ novel about a mother struggling Plumb family.” —Amy Poehler and redemption.” —Mary McNear, New until the wee hours of the morning.” to not just ‘remain alive, but live.’” York Times bestselling author —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times —Naseem Rakha, author of The Crying Tree Readalikes: The Vacationers by Emma Straub and The Interestings by bestselling author Meg Wolitzer Readalikes: The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth and The Midwife’s Readalikes: The Sellout by Paul Beatty and Black River by S.M.