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  • Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly ...
  • The Last Animal: A Novel
    Ramona Ausubel
    Paperback: 03/26/2024
     
    A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild ...
  • A Country You Can Leave: A Novel
    Asale Angel-Ajani
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious ...
  • Only the Beautiful
    Susan Meissner
    Paperback: 03/05/2024
     
    A heartrending story about a young mother's fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear ...
  • The Women: A Novel
    Kristin Hannah
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four ...
  • The Atlas of Us
    Kristin Dwyer
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    "A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page." —...
  • The Silence that Binds Us
    Joanna Ho
    Paperback: 12/26/2023
     
    Joanna Ho, New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, has written an exquisite, heart...

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