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Small World: A Novel

LAURA ZIGMAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults - and finally reckon with their childhoodA year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos...
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The Humble Lover

Edmund White - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From National Book Award-honored author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.. Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants....
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The Laughter: A Novel

Sonora Jha - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

"Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping away, he can't see the ground shifting beneath his feet. A deliciously sharp, mercilessly perceptive exploration of power, The Laughter explores how 'otherness' is both fetishized...
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Elsewhere: Stories

Yan Ge - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career. "A bewitching collection of stories that will leave you awestruck, shaken, and wanting to reach for it again and again." - Paul...
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The Shards: A novel

Bret Easton Ellis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city.Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous...
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Ana María and The Fox (The Luna Sisters)

Liana De la Rosa - Berkley
Format: Paperback

A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season. Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when Ana María is secretly...
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Flags on the Bayou: A Novel

James Lee Burke - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

From American master JamesLee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South disintegratesand a brilliant cast of characters - plantation gentry, enslaved women, andsoldiers from both sides - are caught in the maelstrom By the fall of 1863, theUnion army is in control of the Mississippi...
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Temple Folk

Aaliyah Bilal - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

A short story collection featuring the unique lives and experiences of contemporary Black American Muslims in the Nation of Islam and Sunni Orthodox communities.In Temple Folk, author Aaliyah Bilal acquaints you with the complex and self-governing world of contemporary Black Muslims grappling...
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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories

Agustina Bazterrica - Scribner
Format: Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through...
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The Partisan

Patrick Worrall - Union Square & Co.
Format: Paperback

Epic in scope, The Partisan is a thrill ride that takes readers from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld, from 1960s London to the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever...
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