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  • Song of the Six Realms
    Judy I. Lin
    Hardcover: 04/23/2024
     
    Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy gothic romance...
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    Tyriek White
    Paperback: 04/16/2024
     
    A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of...
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    Lily Brooks-Dalton
    Paperback: 04/16/2024
     
    For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and ...
  • The Alternatives
    Caoilinn Hughes
    Hardcover: 04/16/2024
     
    From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in...
  • I'm the Girl
    Courtney Summers
    Paperback: 04/16/2024
     
    The next searing and groundbreaking queer young adult novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-...
  • Henry Henry
    Allen Bratton
    Hardcover: 04/16/2024
     
    Crackling with intelligence and wit, Henry Henry is a brilliant recasting of the Henriad in which Hal ...
  • A Kind of Madness
    Uche Okonkwo
    Paperback: 04/16/2024
     
    A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, ...
  • The Familiar
    The Familiar: A Novel
    Leigh Bardugo
    Hardcover: 04/09/2024
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish ...
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