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  • Tan Twan Eng
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, ...
  • The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
    Olga Tokarczuk
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie ...
  • Nilima Rao
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a ...
  • Sandra Dallas
    Paperback: 04/30/2024
     
    Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century ...
  • In Memoriam: A Novel
    Alice Winn
    Paperback: 03/19/2024
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Debut Book Award 2023

    A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in ...
  • Jacqueline Winspear
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-...
  • Katherine Arden
    Hardcover: 02/13/2024
     
    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie ...

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