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  • Playground: A Novel
    Richard Powers
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The ...
  • 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 ...
  • Richard Osman
    Hardcover: 09/17/2024
     
    Solving murders. It's a family business.
  • Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships...
  • Cebo Campbell
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
  • Hildur Knútsdóttir
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav&#...
  • Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress ...

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