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  • Liars: A Novel
    Sarah Manguso
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from...
  • All Fours: A Novel
    Miranda July
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising ...
  • J. Nicole Jones
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, ...
  • Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles
    Paperback: 04/08/2025
     
    From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly ...
  • Sky Daddy: A Novel
    Kate Folk
    Hardcover: 04/08/2025
     
    Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this "razor-sharp and tender-...
  • Bonnie Garmus
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s...
  • Soft Core: A Novel
    Brittany Newell
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany ...

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