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Literary Fiction - 512
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  • Mood Swings
    Mood Swings: A Novel
    Frankie Barnet
    Paperback: 05/25/2025
     
    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California ...
  • Women and Children First
    Alina Grabowski
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small ...
  • The Names
    The Names: A Novel
    Florence Knapp
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • Old School Indian
    Aaron John Curtis
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.
  • Ghost Girl, Banana
    Wiz Wharton
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...
  • Early Sobrieties
    Michael Deagler
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering ...
  • Daughters of Shandong
    Eve J. Chung
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the ...

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