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  • What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
    Claire Jimenez
    Hardcover: 03/07/2023
     
    A powerful debut novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and a**-kicking" (Jamie Ford), of a Puerto Rican ...
  • The Lies I Tell: A Novel
    Julie Clark
    Paperback: 03/07/2023
     
    The Lies I Tell is a twisted domestic thriller that dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women ...
  • The Candy House: A Visit from the Goon Squad #2
    Jennifer Egan
    Paperback: 03/07/2023
     
    From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to ...
  • Unlikely Animals: A Novel
    Annie Hartnett
    Paperback: 02/28/2023
     
    A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-...
  • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
    Elif Shafak
    Paperback: 02/28/2023
     
    A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-...
  • My Flawless Life
    Yvonne Woon
    Hardcover: 02/14/2023
     
    Yvonne Woon, author of If You, Then Me, has crafted a slow-burn thriller about fixing—our friends, ...
  • Groundskeeping: A novel
    Lee Cole
    Paperback: 02/14/2023
     
    An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and...

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