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  • The Lincoln Highway
    The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
    Amor Towles
    Paperback: 03/21/2023
     
    Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Fiction Award

    The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of ...
  • Once We Were Home
    Once We Were Home
    Jennifer Rosner
    Hardcover: 03/14/2023
     
    From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel ...
  • Stealing
    Stealing: A Novel
    Margaret Verble
    Hardcover: 02/07/2023
     
    A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian ...
  • Skull Water
    Skull Water: A Novel
    Heinz Insu Fenkl
    Hardcover: 02/07/2023
     
    A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South ...
  • Hungry Ghosts
    Hungry Ghosts: A Novel
    Kevin Jared Hosein
    Hardcover: 02/07/2023
     
    From an unforgettable new voice in Caribbean literature, a sweeping story of two families colliding in 1940s ...
  • Shadows of Berlin
    Shadows of Berlin: A Novel
    David R. Gillham
    Paperback: 01/24/2023
     
    A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves...
  • Moonrise Over New Jessup
    Moonrise Over New Jessup
    Jamila Minnicks
    Hardcover: 01/10/2023
     
    Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut...

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