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  • Future Home of the Living God
    Future Home of the Living God
    Louise Erdrich
    Paperback: 11/13/2018
     
    A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces ...
  • Winter
    Winter: A Novel (Seasonal Quartet)
    Ali Smith
    Paperback: 11/06/2018
     
    Smith's shapeshifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story ...
  • Unsheltered
    Unsheltered: A Novel
    Barbara Kingsolver
    Hardcover: 10/16/2018
     
    A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion ...
  • The Floating World
    The Floating World
    C. Morgan Babst
    Paperback: 10/02/2018
     
    A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief.
  • Washington Black
    Washington Black
    Esi Edugyan
    Hardcover: 09/18/2018
     
    A dazzling new novel about a boy who rises from the ashes of slavery to become a free man of the world.
  • The End We Start From
    The End We Start From
    Megan Hunter
    Paperback: 09/18/2018
     
    A searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to ...
  • The Melody
    The Melody
    Jim Crace
    Hardcover: 06/19/2018
     
    A tender new novel about music, celebrity, local intrigue, and lost love - all set by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Genre: Adult Fiction
Novels - 47
Historical Fiction - 17
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Africa - 1
Asia - 9
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Europe - 10
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USA - 44
Global - 4
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Imaginary Locations - 2

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N.H. Vt. Maine - 4
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South - 11
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West - 16

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