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  • Exhibit: A Novel
    R O. Kwon
    Paperback: 05/20/2025
     
    From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sky Daddy: A Novel
    Kate Folk
    Hardcover: 04/08/2025
     
    Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with an unusual obsession, in this "razor-sharp and tender-...
  • Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
    Torrey Peters
    Hardcover: 03/11/2025
     
    The kaleidoscopic follow-up to the bestselling Detransition, Baby.
  • Sarah Harman
    Hardcover: 03/11/2025
     
    "The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."
  • Emily St. James
    Hardcover: 03/04/2025
     
    An unforgettable and heartwarming book-club debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in ...
  • Han Kang
    Hardcover: 01/21/2025
     
    Han Kang's most revelatory book since The Vegetarian, We Do Not Part tells the story of a friendship between ...

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