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  • Anne Tyler
    Hardcover: 02/11/2025
     
    A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the...
  • Diane Oliver
    Paperback: 02/11/2025
     
    A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day ...
  • Beta Vulgaris: A Novel
    Margie Sarsfield
    Paperback: 02/11/2025
     
    A young woman's seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn in this surprising and vivid ...
  • Soft Core: A Novel
    Brittany Newell
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany ...
  • William Boyle
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear ...
  • Ilium: A Novel
    Lea Carpenter
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the...
  • Gliff: A Novel
    Ali Smith
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing...
  • Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to ...
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