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River Sing Me Home

by Eleanor Shearer

Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a remarkable debut.

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$17.00

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Pineapple Street

by Jenny Jackson

Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, lovable – if fallible – characters, it’s a deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, as this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.

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$18.00

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When We Were Sisters

by Fatimah Asghar

In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. When We Were Sisters tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who’ve lost everything might still make homes in one another.

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$18.00

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

by Gabriel García Márquez

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez’s most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author’s son, Gonzalo García Barcha.

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$28.00

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin

Sam and Sadie – two college friends, often in love, but never lovers – become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

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$19.00

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Gods of Want

by K-Ming Chang

Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review)–from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary.

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$18.00

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Dog Flowers

by Danielle Geller

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.

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$17.00

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Ghost Forest

by Pik-Shuen Fung

How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? Buoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers.

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$18.00

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Latitudes of Longing

by Shubhangi Swarup

A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, Latitudes of Longing offers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love one another, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature.

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$18.00

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A Burning

by Megha Majumdar

A “gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary” (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise – to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies – and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning is an electrifying debut.

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$18.00

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

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$18.00

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A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting

by Sophie Irwin

A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love …

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$17.00

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City of Orange

by David Yoon

He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s City of Orange is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are and finding the way home again.

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$18.00

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The Performance

by Claire Thomas

One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater, it is time for the performance to take over. While the performance unfolds on stage, so does the compelling trajectory that will bring these three women together, changing them all. Deliciously intimate and yet emotionally wide-ranging, The Performance is a novel that explores the inner lives of women as it underscores the power of art and memory to transform us.

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$16.00

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