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In the Country of Others
Leila Slimani
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny that “lays bare women’s intimate, lacerating...
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Black Light
Kimberly King Parsons
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . ....
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Where the Dead Sit Talking
Brandon Hobson
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is...
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Faces and Masks: Memory of Fire, Volume 2
Eduardo Galeano
The second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of...
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The New House
David Leo Rice
A family of outsider artists roams the American interior in search of the New Jerusalem in David Leo Rice's new...
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Savage Tongues
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
A new novel by PEN/Faulkner Award winner Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi--"if you don't know this name yet, you should"...
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The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka
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Whiteout Conditions
Tariq Shah
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