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Literary Fiction - 34
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  • Those Pink Mountain Nights
    Jen Ferguson
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and ...
  • Like Home
    Louisa Onome
    Paperback: 07/23/2024
     
    Fans of Netflix's On My Block and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Thomas will love this debut novel ...
  • Mood Swings
    Mood Swings: A Novel
    Frankie Barnet
    Hardcover: 05/21/2024
     
    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California ...
  • The Warm Hands of Ghosts
    Katherine Arden
    Hardcover: 02/13/2024
     
    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie ...
  • Bad Cree
    Bad Cree: A Novel
    Jessica Johns
    Paperback: 12/05/2023
     
    In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-...
  • The Most Precious Substance on Earth
    Shashi Bhat
    Paperback: 06/27/2023
     
    Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's ...
  • Fight Night
    Miriam Toews
    Paperback: 01/31/2023
     
    From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and ...

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