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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 ...
  • Happy
    Happy: A Novel
    Celina Baljeet Basra
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in ...
  • The Blood Years
    Elana K. Arnold
    Paperback: 10/22/2024
     
    From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a ...
  • 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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    Our Evenings: A Novel
    Alan Hollinghurst
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the ...
  • 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 ...
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    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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