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  • Becoming Madam Secretary
    Stephanie Dray
    Paperback: 03/18/2025
     
    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an ...
  • Absolution
    Absolution: A Novel
    Alice McDermott
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the ...
  • Those Pink Mountain Nights
    Jen Ferguson
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and ...
  • All You Have to Do Is Call
    Kerri Maher
    Paperback: 08/27/2024
     
    A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought ...
  • The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
    Lorraine Avila
    Paperback: 07/09/2024
     
    Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "uppercut to the senses." You've never ...
  • Wings in the Wild
    Margarita Engle
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the ...
  • The Last Animal
    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 ...

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