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Such Kindness: A Novel

Andre Dubus III · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced...
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Loot: A novel

Tania James · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in eighteenth-century India, England, and France, about a young man's dream of leaving a mark on the world. Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace...
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The Librarianist: A Novel

Patrick deWitt · Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded...
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Novel

Emma Torzs · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Follow where this novel leads and you will be lost in a bewitching spell, a book of magic about books of magic . . . extraordinary." - MARLON JAMES"If, like me, you're a fan of Holly Black and Leigh Bardugo, pick up this book at once." - KELLY LINK In this spellbinding...
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home: A novel

Lorrie Moore · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs - a daring, meditative exploration of love and death, passion and grief, and what it means to be haunted by the past, both by history and the human heart. From"one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation"...
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The Celebrants

Steven Rowley · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises - especially to ourselves - by the bestselling and celebrated author of The Guncle. . It's been a minute - or five years - since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their...
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Cassandra in Reverse: A Novel

Holly Smale · MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Witty, touching and totally absorbing. Cassandra is a funny and sharply-observed character who I loved spending time with." - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project. If you had the power to change the past ... would you?. Cassandra Penelope Dankworth...
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Between Two Moons: A Novel

Aisha Abdel Gawad · Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.It's the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high...
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Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel

Richard Ford · Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literatureOver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view...
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Banyan Moon: A Novel

Thao Thai · Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother,...
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