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  • The Corruption of Hollis Brown
    by K. Ancrum
    Hardcover (04/01/2025)
    From acclaimed author K. Ancrum comes a queer romantic thriller in which the lives of Hollis, a boy in search ...
  • Death in the Jungle
    by Candace Fleming
    Hardcover (04/01/2025)
    How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "...
  • The Names
    by Florence Knapp
    Hardcover (05/01/2025)
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • Are You Happy?
    by Lori Ostlund
    Hardcover (05/01/2025)
    Nine exquisite stories that explore class, desire, identity, and the specter of violence that looms daily over...
  • The True Happiness Company
    by Veena Dinavahi
    Hardcover (05/20/2025)
    In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well...
  • Terrestrial History
    by Joe Mungo Reed
    Hardcover (04/01/2025)
    A family saga following four generations on a time-bending journey from coastal Scotland to a colony on Mars.
  • Blazing Eye Sees All
    by Leah Sottile
    Hardcover (03/01/2025)
    An investigation of the New Age movement in America that aims to understand its appeal to women and the self-...
  • Twist
    by Colum McCann
    Hardcover (03/01/2025)
    A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean&...
  • Vanishing World
    by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
    Hardcover (04/01/2025)
    From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a ...
  • Women of War
    by Suzanne Cope
    Hardcover (04/01/2025)
    The gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told ...
  • The Emperor of Gladness
    by Ocean Vuong
    Hardcover (05/01/2025)
    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we ...
  • Isola
    by Allegra Goodman
    Hardcover (02/01/2025)
    A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga, an epic story of love, faith,...
  • Hot Air
    by Marcy Dermansky
    Hardcover (03/01/2025)
    A joyfully unhinged story of money, marriage, sex, and revenge unspools when a billionaire crashes his hot-air...
  • The Creation of Half-Broken People
    by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
    Paperback (04/01/2025)
    Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham–Campbell Prize.

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    The Lilac People
    by Milo Todd
    For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.

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