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  • Margarita Engle
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Jennine CapĂł Crucet
    Hardcover: 03/05/2024
     
    Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
    Kij Johnson
    Hardcover: 10/24/2023
     
    A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal ...
  • Dinosaurs: A Novel
    Lydia Millet
    Paperback: 08/22/2023
     
    Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a ...
  • Ray Nayler
    Paperback: 05/30/2023
     
    Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a ...

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