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  • Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver
    Paperback: 08/27/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which ...
  • Someone Like Us
    Dinaw Mengestu
    Hardcover: 07/30/2024
     
    The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by ...
  • All the Sinners Bleed
    S. A. Cosby
    Paperback: 07/09/2024
     
    The new novel from New York Times bestselling and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author S. A. Cosby, "...
  • Holy City
    Henry Wise
    Hardcover: 06/04/2024
     
    Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an ...
  • Happiness Falls
    Angie Kim
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about ...
  • The House Is on Fire
    Rachel Beanland
    Paperback: 04/02/2024
     
    The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an ...
  • Horse
    Horse: A Novel
    Geraldine Brooks
    Paperback: 01/16/2024
     
    Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award

    A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and ...

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