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  • Absolution
    Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Hardcover: 10/22/2024
     
    The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the ...
  • Season of the Swamp
    Yuri Herrera
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World....
  • Model Home
    Model Home: A Novel
    Rivers Solomon
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
  • A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
    Raul Palma
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of ...
  • Chenneville
    Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
    Paulette Jiles
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post&#...
  • The Reformatory
    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • King of the Armadillos
    Wendy Chin-Tanner
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City...

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