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  • John Manuel Arias
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary...
  • Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
    ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in ...
  • Ruby Todd
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a ...
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and ...
  • Wellness: A Novel
    Nathan Hill
    Paperback: 06/25/2024
     
    The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the ...
  • Gabrielle Zevin
    Paperback: 06/25/2024
     
    In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends - often ...
  • The Unsettled: A Novel
    Ayana Mathis
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in ...

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