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Dark at the Crossing: A novel

Elliot Ackerman - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Transports readers into a world few Americans know" - Washington Post "Promises to be one of the most essential books of 2017" - EsquireA timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story...
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The Leavers: A Novel

Lisa Ko - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature "There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written,...
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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY...
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange." -- Roxane Gay"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire....
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner...
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