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  • The Lincoln Highway
    The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
    Amor Towles
    Paperback: 03/21/2023
     
    Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Fiction Award

    The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of ...
  • Once We Were Home
    Once We Were Home
    Jennifer Rosner
    Hardcover: 03/14/2023
     
    From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel ...
  • The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin
    The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin
    Kip Wilson
    Paperback: 03/07/2023
     
    A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War ...
  • The Great Passion
    The Great Passion
    James Runcie
    Paperback: 02/21/2023
     
    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of ...
  • Black Cloud Rising
    Black Cloud Rising
    David Wright Falade
    Paperback: 02/21/2023
     
    Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary ...
  • Essex Dogs
    Essex Dogs: A Novel
    Dan Jones
    Hardcover: 02/14/2023
     
    The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during...
  • Stealing
    Stealing: A Novel
    Margaret Verble
    Hardcover: 02/07/2023
     
    A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian ...
  • Skull Water
    Skull Water: A Novel
    Heinz Insu Fenkl
    Hardcover: 02/07/2023
     
    A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South ...
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