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Dealing with Loss - 558

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  • Hot Springs Drive
    Lindsay Hunter
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel ...
  • The Rest of You
    Maame Blue
    Paperback: 10/08/2024
     
    An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story...
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    Kate Greathead
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our ...
  • Shred Sisters
    Betsy Lerner
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

    From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The ...
  • North Woods
    North Woods: A Novel
    Daniel Mason
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit...
  • A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
    Raul Palma
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of ...
  • Land of Milk and Honey
    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 ...

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