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  • The Most Precious Substance on Earth
    The Most Precious Substance on Earth
    Shashi Bhat
    Hardcover: 06/28/2022
     
    Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's ...
  • The Other Black Girl
    The Other Black Girl
    Zakiya Dalila Harris
    Paperback: 06/07/2022
     
    Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that ...
  • Cult Classic
    Cult Classic: A Novel
    Sloane Crosley
    Hardcover: 06/07/2022
     
    Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale ...
  • Suburban Dicks
    Suburban Dicks
    Fabian Nicieza
    Paperback: 05/03/2022
     
    From the cocreator of Deadpool comes a hilariously entertaining debut featuring two unlikely and unforgettable...
  • Let's Not Do That Again
    Let's Not Do That Again: A Novel
    Grant Ginder
    Hardcover: 04/05/2022
     
    From Grant Ginder, the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes Let's Not Do That Again a poignant, ...
  • Vladimir
    Vladimir: A Novel
    Julia May Jonas
    Hardcover: 02/01/2022
     
    A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of ...
  • Thank You, Mr. Nixon
    Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories
    Gish Jen
    Hardcover: 02/01/2022
     
    The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of ...

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