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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 ...
  • Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships...
  • Bart Yates
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in ...
  • Mikki Brammer
    Paperback: 05/21/2024
     
    Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula ...
  • Stephanie Dray
    Hardcover: 03/12/2024
     
    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an ...
  • Catherine Newman
    Paperback: 11/07/2023
     
    For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, ...
  • Noelle Salazar
    Paperback: 10/03/2023
     
    The discovery of a hidden label on a famous gown unearths the story of a talented young seamstress in this ...

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