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  • The Emperor of Gladness
    Ocean Vuong
    Hardcover: 05/13/2025
     
    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we ...
  • The Railway Conspiracy
    The Railway Conspiracy: A Dee and Lao Mystery
    John Shen Yen Nee, S.J. Rozan
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a ...
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    Laila Lalami
    Hardcover: 03/04/2025
     
    READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and ...
  • Theory & Practice
    Michelle de Kretser
    Hardcover: 02/18/2025
     
    A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a ...
  • Ilium
    Ilium: A Novel
    Lea Carpenter
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the...
  • Hard by a Great Forest
    Leo Vardiashvili
    Paperback: 01/28/2025
     
    Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to ...
  • Good Girl
    Good Girl: A Novel
    Aria Aber
    Hardcover: 01/14/2025
     
    An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and ...

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