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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 380
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 62
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Magical or Supernatural - 54
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  • Shred Sisters
    Betsy Lerner
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

    From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The ...
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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 ...
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    Charles Burns
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's ...
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    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • King of the Armadillos
    Wendy Chin-Tanner
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City...
  • Let Us Descend
    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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    Barbara Kingsolver
    Paperback: 08/27/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which ...

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