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  • C Pam Zhang
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel ...
  • Creation Lake: A Novel
    Rachel Kushner
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most ...
  • Ruby Todd
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a ...
  • Anton Hur
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...
  • Aysegül Savas
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life ...
  • Caoilinn Hughes
    Hardcover: 04/16/2024
     
    From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in...
  • Douglas Westerbeke
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...

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