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  • The Prophets
    The Prophets
    by Robert Jones Jr.
    Hardcover: Jan 2021
    Paperback: Feb 2022
     
    A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
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  • Puck
    Puck : A Novel
    by Samantha Allen
    Paperback: Jun 2026
     
    In this A Midsummer Night's Dream-inspired romcom, Puck is a reality show producer and agent of chaos with a talent for bringing people together ... and tearing them apart.
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  • The Pull of the Stars
    The Pull of the Stars
    by Emma Donoghue
    Hardcover: Jul 2020
    Paperback: Jul 2021
     
    In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).
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  • Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
    Pulling the Chariot of the Sun : A Memoir of a Kidnapping
    by Shane McCrae
    Hardcover: Aug 2023
    Paperback: Dec 2045
     
    An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.
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  • Pulse
    Pulse : Stories
    by Julian Barnes
    Hardcover: May 2011
    Paperback: Feb 2012
     
    After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examines with his trademark wit and observant eye.
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  • Punching the Air
    Punching the Air
    by Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi
    Hardcover: Sep 2020
    Paperback: Dec 2021
     
    From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and ...
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  • Puppet Child
    Puppet Child
    by Talia Carner
    Hardcover: Nov 2002
    Paperback: Sep 2002
     
    When the justice system fails her daughter, one courageous mother takes matters into her own hands. In a wrenching race against time, the safety of one child becomes entangled in the theatrics of Family Court, bottled-up family dynamics, media frenzy...
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  • Purity
    Purity
    by Jonathan Franzen
    Hardcover: Sep 2015
    Paperback: Aug 2016
     
    A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom
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