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The Fastest Way to Fall
Denise Williams
"The perfect feel-good read."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation Britta didn’t plan...
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Stiff
Steve Hughes
Surreal stories highlighting the struggle of carving out a home for one's self.
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Extinction Theory
Kien Lam
Extinction Theory is a collection of pseudoscience poems that try to provide rationales for some of life's most salient mysteries....
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The Arab of the Future
Riad Sattouf
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Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for...
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Lost on Me
Veronica Raimo
In this irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning and bestselling Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex and family disaster...
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