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  • Jo Piazza
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the ...
  • Ferdia Lennon
    Paperback: 03/25/2025
     
    An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.
  • Derek B. Miller
    Paperback: 01/28/2025
     
    From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World ...
  • Happy: A Novel
    Celina Baljeet Basra
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in ...
  • C Pam Zhang
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel ...
  • Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
    Paperback: 06/18/2024
     
    The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her ...

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