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Five-Carat Soul

James McBride · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant,...
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Hanna Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel

Christopher Meades · Park Row Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl's struggle for liberation Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen...
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Passage: A Novel

Khary Lazarre-White · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

"In [Lazarre-White's] world, mysticism and madness walk hand in hand with the waking reality of so many young Black men in America, a reality that by any rational measure is itself insane." --Susan L. TaylorPassage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the snowy...
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To?mas Jo?nsson : bestseller

Guðbergur Bergsson · Open Letter Books
Pages: 411

"Guobergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tomas Jonsson, Bestseller, which shocked Icelandic readers in innumerable ways, lashing out as it does at the Icelandic society of the post-war years for its cultural confusion, amorality, and hypocrisy. The main character is a grumpy...
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The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs: A Novel

JANET PEERY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and clear-eyed gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with her second novel, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.On a summer evening in the blue-collar...
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Forest Dark: A Novel

NICOLE KRAUSS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel...
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The Age of Perpetual Light

Josh Weil · Grove Press
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover

"A storyteller of the first order." -- Joshua Ferris "Josh Weil is a spectacular talent." -- Lauren Groff Following his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel, The Great Glass Sea, Sue Kaufman Prize winner and National Book Foundation "5 Under 35"...
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Thalia: A Texas Trilogy

LARRY MCMURTRY · Liveright
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover

The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, "an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold" (New York Times Book Review) , continues with the publication of Thalia.Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive...
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The Wolf Trial

Neil Mackay · Freight Books
Pages: 373
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by an extraordinary true case - the first-ever documented account of a serial killer in world history. In the second half of the 16th century, Paulus Melchior, lawyer, academic and enlightened rationalist, travels with his young assistant, Willy Lessinger, to the isolated German...
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The River Bank: A sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

KIJ JOHNSON · Small Beer Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings,...
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