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  • Children of Blood and Bone
    Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha
    Tomi Adeyemi
    Hardcover: 03/06/2018
     
    Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, ...
  • The Book of Joan
    The Book of Joan
    Lidia Yuknavitch
    Paperback: 02/13/2018
     
    The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offers a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine - a...
  • Hag-Seed
    Hag-Seed: Hogarth Shakespeare series
    Margaret Atwood
    Paperback: 05/16/2017
     
    William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed.
  • Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
    Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
    Salman Rushdie
    Paperback: 07/12/2016
     
    From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends ...
  • Undermajordomo Minor
    Undermajordomo Minor
    Patrick deWitt
    Paperback: 06/21/2016
     
    A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo ...
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat
    The Beautiful Bureaucrat
    Helen Phillips
    Paperback: 05/10/2016
     
    A young wife's new job in an enigmatic organization pits her against the unfeeling machinations of the ...
  • The Book of Strange New Things
    The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
    Michel Faber
    Paperback: 06/30/2015
     
    A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things ...

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