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  • Women's Hotel
    Women's Hotel: A Novel
    Daniel M. Lavery
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the ...
  • Murder by Degrees
    Ritu Mukerji
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th ...
  • The Mighty Red
    Louise Erdrich
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a ...
  • The MANIAC
    Benjamin Labatut
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian ...
  • Season of the Swamp
    Yuri Herrera
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World....
  • North Woods
    North Woods: A Novel
    Daniel Mason
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit...
  • Model Home
    Model Home: A Novel
    Rivers Solomon
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.

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