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  • The Oceans and the Stars
    The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story (A Novel)
    Mark Helprin
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, ...
  • Nicked
    Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • Loot
    Loot: A Novel
    Tania James
    Paperback: 06/18/2024
     
    A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a ...
  • The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
    Briony Cameron
    Hardcover: 06/04/2024
     
    This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few ...
  • Wild and Distant Seas
    Tara Karr Roberts
    Hardcover: 01/02/2024
     
    A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their ...
  • Luck of the Titanic
    Stacey Lee
    Paperback: 09/27/2022
     
    From the critically-acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and ...
  • The Devil and the Dark Water
    Stuart Turton
    Paperback: 07/06/2021
     
    A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.

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