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Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Hardcover | Sep 2021
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Hardcover | Sep 2021
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Any Way the Wind Blows
Rainbow Rowell
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
Hardcover | Aug 2021
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Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune
Hardcover | Sep 2021
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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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Jason Mott
Hardcover | Jun 2021
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Velvet Was the Night
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Anthony Veasna So
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Katie Kitamura
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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S A Cosby
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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Seek You
Kristen Radtke
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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Appleseed
Matt Bell
Hardcover | Jul 2021
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