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  • HOME IS WHERE THE BODIES ARE
    HOME IS WHERE THE BODIES ARE
    JENEVA ROSE
    From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn't Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet. After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middl...
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  • WITHIN ARM'S REACH
    WITHIN ARM'S REACH
    NAPOLITANO, ANN
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The tender and perceptive debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful, about three generations of a large Catholic family jarred into crisis by an unexpected pregnancy“This stunning . . . exquisite, skillfully written gem addresses serious issues–e.g., guilt vs. loyalty, the past vs. the present—[but] remains hopeful and inclu...
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  • BETTER BY FAR
    BETTER BY FAR
    HAZEL HAYES
    One of Zibby Mag's Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in 2024 One of SheNet's Highly Anticipated Books of 2024A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life’s little limbos, those in-between spaces where you’re no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be   About her debut, Out of Love, Hazel Hayes said, “The jo...
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  • THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL
    THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL
    SARAH CYPHER
    A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.   “As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this bold, vivid novel will speak to readers across genders, cultures, and identities.”—Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Fencing...
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    Q. 190

  • THE CELESTIAL WIFE
    THE CELESTIAL WIFE
    LESLIE HOWARD
    A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events.Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of...
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  • OLD FLAME
    OLD FLAME
    MOLLY PRENTISS
    This “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) and “introspective, energetic novel” (Booklist) explores what it means to be a woman in her many forms—daughter, friend, partner, lover, and mother—from the acclaimed author of Tuesday Nights in 1980.Emily writes for women’s catalogs for a living, but she’d rather be writing books. She has a handsome photographer boyfriend, bu...
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  • TABLE FOR TWO
    TABLE FOR TWO
    AMOR TOWLES
    From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • HABITATIONS
    HABITATIONS
    SHEILA SUNDAR
    A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this “delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor” (Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting).Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to att...
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  • AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON
    AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON
    NIKOLAI GOGOL
    Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation"The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it." — George SaundersNo writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oli...
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    Q. 140

  • A HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS
    A HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS
    DEFOREST, ANNA
    This "brutal and brave" (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation--physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rota...
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  • WORRY
    WORRY
    ALEXANDRA TANNER
    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Nylon, The Millions, and Debutiful! Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood.It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and int...
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    Q. 280

  • HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS
    NORTH, CLAIRE
    Men go to war, gods scheme, and the choices of a queen will change the course of the world, in this powerful sequel to Ithaca from multi-award-winning author Claire North. On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning t...
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  • ZERO DAYS
    ZERO DAYS
    WARE, RUTH
    The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists i...
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  • THE DIVORCÉES
    THE DIVORCÉES
    ROWAN BEAIRD
    A "delicious" (Rebecca Makkai) and "deeply compelling" (Lauren Groff) debut novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. I...
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    Q. 300

  • BIOGRAPHY OF X
    BIOGRAPHY OF X
    CATHERINE LACEY
    Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1), Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, Lit Hub, and Amazon. National Bestseller. Winner of the 2023 Brooklyn Library Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dylan Th...
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  • JADED
    JADED
    ELA LEE
    A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder. Jade isn’t even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name.Jade has becom...
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  • MEMORY PIECE
    MEMORY PIECE
    LISA KO
    The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each o...
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  • PINEAPPLE STREET
    PINEAPPLE STREET
    JENNY JACKSON
    A New York Times bestseller A Good Morning America Book Club PickChosen as a best book of the year by The New York Times Time NPR USA Today Elle Harper’s Bazaar Town & Country Vogue BBC POPSUGAR Goodreads theSkimm“The season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”— The New York Times“A delicious new Gilded Age fam...
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    Q. 130

  • VICTIM
    VICTIM
    ANDREW BORYGA
    "You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done...Pitch perfect." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingThere's a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diver...
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  • ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
    ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
    MORRIS, JOEL
    A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s historic play, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature’s most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth.Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother’s death and the weight of an un...
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  • PARISIAN DAYS
    PARISIAN DAYS
    BANINE / ANNE THOMPSON-AHMADOVA
    “Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten.” — Evening StandardA brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of “freedom and fantasy” in 1920s Paris, appearing in English for the first timeTold with vivacious wit and a lust for life, Parisi...
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  • PRIDE AND JOY
    PRIDE AND JOY
    LOUISA ONOMÉ
    Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch’s sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back—from an author with a “razor-sharp, smart, and tender” (Nafiza Azad, author of The Wild Ones) voice.Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorce...
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  • BUT THE GIRL
    BUT THE GIRL
    JESSICA ZHAN MEI YU
    "Having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be me..." Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a...
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  • THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN
    THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN
    SUSANNA HOFFS
    This delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate, and love from beloved songwriter and Bangles co-founder Susanna Hoffs is "a total knockout" and "the smart, ferocious rock-star redemption romance you didn't know you needed" (New York Times Book Review). "This Bird Has Flown is SO GOOD. If you liked Daisy Jones & The Six or Juliet, Naked, I feel like you will love thi...
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  • FRUIT OF THE DEAD
    FRUIT OF THE DEAD
    RACHEL LYON
    An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the ...
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  • NEVER BEEN BETTER
    NEVER BEEN BETTER
    LEANNE TOSHIKO SIMPSON
    A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seaside wedding where no one can stay afloat.Is she falling in love, or falling apart?Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around. But Matt and Misa are tying the kn...
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  • COUNSEL CULTURE
    COUNSEL CULTURE
    HYE-JIN, KIM
    From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption. Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on a popular TV program. But when she makes a scripted negative comment about a public figure who later commits suicide, she fin...
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  • DANCES
    DANCES
    NICOLE CUFFY
    A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this “striking debut” (Oprah Daily).“A compelling novel about the spiritual and bodily costs of the dogged pursuit of art.”—Raven Leilani, author of LusterLONGLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARDAt twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell rea...
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  • GREEN DOT
    GREEN DOT
    MADELEINE GRAY
    “Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy—and hilarious—wonder of a novel.”—Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love YouAn irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothingAt twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the fu...
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  • AFTER ANNIE
    AFTER ANNIE
    ANNA QUINDLEN
    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “A wise and heartfelt novel of connection, of loss and love and the power of both.”—Amy Bloom, author of In LoveAnna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the #1 New York Times bestselling au...
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