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  • The Magician's Daughter
    H.G. Parry
    Paperback: 02/28/2023
     
    In the early 1900s, a young woman is caught between two worlds in H. G. Parry's spellbinding tale of miracles,...
  • After Sappho: A Novel
    Selby Wynn Schwartz
    Hardcover: 01/24/2023
     
    An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at ...
  • Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel
    Juhea Kim
    Paperback: 12/06/2022
     
    An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, ...
  • The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
    Nathaniel Ian Miller
    Paperback: 10/04/2022
     
    The "ceaselessly brilliant" story of one man who banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and...
  • Luck of the Titanic
    Stacey Lee
    Paperback: 09/27/2022
     
    From the critically-acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and ...
  • The Personal Librarian
    Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
    Paperback: 06/07/2022
     
    The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one...
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words
    Pip Williams
    Paperback: 05/03/2022
     
    In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English ...

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