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  • 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.
  • 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 Bullet Swallower
    Elizabeth Gonzalez James
    Hardcover: 01/23/2024
     
    A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The ...
  • Perish
    Perish: A Novel
    LaToya Watkins
    Paperback: 08/01/2023
     
    From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the ...
  • The Consequences
    Manuel Munoz
    Paperback: 10/18/2022
     
    Shimmering stories set in California's Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer...
  • Yolk
    Mary Choi
    Paperback: 03/01/2022
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged ...
  • Nights When Nothing Happened
    Simon Han
    Paperback: 11/16/2021
     
    From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, ...

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