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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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Also by Karen Joy Fowler:

Otter Music, February 2027
Hardcover
Booth, February 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Booth, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, March 2014
Paperback / e-Book
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, June 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Wit's End, May 2009
Paperback
Because I Love Her, April 2009
Trade Size
Wit's End, April 2008
Hardcover
The Jane Austen Book Club, September 2007
Paperback

WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
By: Karen Joy Fowler

Plume
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0142180823
EAN: 9780142180822
Kindle: B00B4FU6KE
Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (June 2013)

Women's Fiction Contemporary

Included on The Christian Science Monitor's list of 2013's top 15 works of fiction

The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one

Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. β€œI was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. β€œI tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion … she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.

In We Are All Completely beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to dateβ€”a tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking