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  • Loot
    Loot: A Novel
    Tania James
    Paperback: 06/18/2024
     
    A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a ...
  • Victory City
    Victory City: A Novel
    Salman Rushdie
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the ...
  • The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
    Shubnum Khan
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    "A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts ...
  • The Bandit Queens
    Parini Shroff
    Paperback: 01/09/2024
     
    A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other ...
  • Age of Vice
    Age of Vice: A Novel
    Deepti Kapoor
    Paperback: 01/02/2024
     
    This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can ...
  • Moth
    Moth: A Novel
    Melody Razak
    Paperback: 08/08/2023
     
    Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family's trials ...
  • The Earthspinner
    Anuradha Roy
    Paperback: 07/11/2023
     
    From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never...

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