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  • We Solve Murders
    Richard Osman
    Hardcover: 09/17/2024
     
    Solving murders. It's a family business.
  • Sky Full of Elephants
    Cebo Campbell
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
  • The Night Guest
    Hildur Knútsdóttir
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav&#...
  • Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call
    T. Kingfisher
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call&#...
  • The Briar Club
    Kate Quinn
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting ...
  • Bury Your Gays
    Chuck Tingle
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it ...

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