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The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese

BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

Along the Malabar Coast of South India in 1900, a 12-year-old girl ...
In Memoriam
by Alice Winn

BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023

Alice Winn's remarkable debut, In Memoriam, opens in 1914 at ...
The Wager
by David Grann

BookBrowse Nonfiction Award 2023

David Grann is a journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker and...
Remember Us
by Jacqueline Woodson

BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023

Remember Us is set largely across a single hazy summer of the 1970s in...

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by Sandra Newman

From critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman, a brilliantly relevant retelling of Orwell's *1984* from the point of Smith's lover, Julia.

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