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  • Those Pink Mountain Nights
    Jen Ferguson
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and ...
  • Blood Test
    Blood Test: A Comedy
    Charles Baxter
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic ...
  • The Puzzle Box
    Danielle Trussoni
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world's greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the ...
  • The Mighty Red
    Louise Erdrich
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a ...
  • Suggested in the Stars
    Yoko Tawada
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Model Home
    Model Home: A Novel
    Rivers Solomon
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.

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