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  • Abraham Verghese
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...
  • Stephanie Dray
    Paperback: 03/18/2025
     
    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an ...
  • Playworld: A Novel
    Adam Ross
    Hardcover: 01/07/2025
     
    Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and ...
  • The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story (A Novel)
    Mark Helprin
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, ...
  • Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • Barbara Kingsolver
    Paperback: 08/27/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which ...
  • The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
    Lev Grossman
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the...

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