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  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 08/20/2024
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • Mina's Matchbox
    Yoko Ogawa
    Hardcover: 08/13/2024
     
    From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel ...
  • Every Rising Sun
    Jamila Ahmed
    Paperback: 07/16/2024
     
    In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit ...
  • Daughters of Shandong
    Eve J. Chung
    Hardcover: 05/07/2024
     
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the ...
  • Strike the Zither
    Strike the Zither: Kingdom of Three #1
    Joan He
    Paperback: 03/26/2024
     
    A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a ...
  • The Women
    The Women: A Novel
    Kristin Hannah
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four ...
  • Victory City
    Victory City: A Novel
    Salman Rushdie
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the ...

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