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The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Time is running out for humanity in The Dark Forest, the stunning sequel to Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece,...
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Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente
A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a...
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The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson
The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in...
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Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
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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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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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