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  • The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
    by Lynda Cohen Loigman
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    It's never too late for new beginnings.
  • Everything We Never Had
    by Randy Ribay
    Hardcover (08/01/2024)
    From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, ...
  • My Friends
    by Hisham Matar
    Paperback (01/07/2025)
    A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–...
  • But the Girl
    by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
    Paperback (03/01/2024)
    "Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the ...
  • The Sisters K
    by Maureen Sun
    Hardcover (06/01/2024)
    "You're my sister, but I'm not sure I love you. I'm not sure I love anyone. But if someone hurt you I'd want ...
  • The Avian Hourglass
    by Lindsey Drager
    Paperback (08/01/2024)
    At once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the ...
  • Before the Mango Ripens
    by Afabwaje Kurian
    Hardcover (09/01/2024)
    Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the...
  • Graveyard Shift
    by M. L. Rio
    Hardcover (09/01/2024)
    The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift ...
  • Our Evenings
    by Alan Hollinghurst
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the ...
  • Roman Year
    by Andre Aciman
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp...
  • Margo's Got Money Troubles
    by Rufi Thorpe
    Hardcover (06/01/2024)
    A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, ...
  • My Good Bright Wolf
    by Sarah Moss
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.
  • Absolution
    by Jeff VanderMeer
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the ...
  • Linguaphile
    by Julie Sedivy
    Hardcover (10/01/2024)
    A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

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