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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Ariz. Nev. N.M. Utah

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    Headshot: A Novel
    Rita Bullwinkel
    Hardcover: 03/12/2024
     
    An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of ...
  • Dinosaurs
    Dinosaurs: A Novel
    Lydia Millet
    Paperback: 08/22/2023
     
    Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a ...
  • We Are Not Free
    Traci Chee
    Paperback: 03/01/2022
     
    "All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard ...
  • The Distant Dead
    Heather Young
    Paperback: 08/24/2021
     
    A young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery in this timely and twisty thriller from the author...
  • The Lightness of Hands
    Jeff Garvin
    Paperback: 08/10/2021
     
    A quirky and heartfelt coming-of-age story about a teen girl with bipolar II who signs her failed magician ...
  • Paradise, Nevada
    Dario Diofebi
    Hardcover: 04/06/2021
     
    From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political ...
  • Inland
    Téa Obreht
    Paperback: 05/26/2020
     
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife returns with a stunning tale of perseverance - an ...

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