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  • The Candy House: A Visit from the Goon Squad #2
    Jennifer Egan
    Paperback: 03/07/2023
     
    From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to ...
  • Fight Night
    Miriam Toews
    Paperback: 01/31/2023
     
    From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and ...
  • The Swimmers: A novel
    Julie Otsuka
    Paperback: 01/24/2023
     
    From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a ...
  • In the Time of Our History
    Susanne Pari
    Paperback: 01/03/2023
     
    Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the...
  • A Dangerous Business: A Novel
    Jane Smiley
    Hardcover: 12/06/2022
     
    From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a rollicking murder ...
  • Black Cake: A Novel
    Charmaine Wilkerson
    Paperback: 11/29/2022
     
    In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother'...
  • The Consequences: Stories
    Manuel Munoz
    Paperback: 10/18/2022
     
    Shimmering stories set in California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer...

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