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Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
A beautiful black woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood:...
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Songs for the Flames
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The characters in Songs for the...
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Unknown
"An illustrated collection of traditional Russian folktales"--
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Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes...
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Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut
“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad...
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Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
A New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle. At 2:27pm...
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Zone One
Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has...
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Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel...
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Universal Harvester
John Darnielle
Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local...
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston
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