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Week of August 11, 2014

Releases for the week of August 11th include AFTER I'M GONE, Laura Lippman's addictive novel that explores how one man’s disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress and daughters he left behind; AN EVENT IN AUTUMN, Henning Mankell's latest Kury Wallander mystery in which the shocking truth about a long-buried secret is brought to light; and HOTHOUSE by Boris Kachka, which deftly reveals the era and the city that built the publishing house of Farrar, Straus and Giroux through the stories of two men: founder-owner Roger Straus and editor Robert Giroux.

Wally Lamb, author of We Are Water

After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh --- wife, mother, outsider artist --- has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets --- dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives.