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  • Women's Hotel
    Women's Hotel: A Novel
    Daniel M. Lavery
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the ...
  • 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...
  • Yr Dead
    Sam Sax
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book ...
  • Witness
    Witness: Stories
    Jamel Brinkley
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken ...
  • The General and Julia
    Jon Clinch
    Paperback: 07/23/2024
     
    Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a ...
  • Liars
    Liars: A Novel
    Sarah Manguso
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from...
  • The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
    Lorraine Avila
    Paperback: 07/09/2024
     
    Elizabeth Acevedo has said that reading Lorraine Avila feels like an "uppercut to the senses." You've never ...

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