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Featured Titles

Peace Talks (Dresden Files #16) Cover Image

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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel Cover Image

The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Cover Image

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The Lying Life of Adults Cover Image

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Smokey the Bear Sutra Cover Image

Antiracist Baby Picture Book Cover Image

Midnight Sun Cover Image

Migrations: A Novel Cover Image

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel Cover Image

Hellacious California!: Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State Cover Image

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Cover Image

Sex and Vanity: A Novel Cover Image

Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure Cover Image

True Story: A Novel Cover Image

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The Last Great Road Bum: A Novel Cover Image

Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize 2020

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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel Cover Image

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Cover Image

Sontag: Her Life and Work Cover Image

The Tradition Cover Image

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Cover Image

National Book Award 2019

Trust Exercise: A Novel Cover Image

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) Cover Image

Sight Lines Cover Image

1919 The Year That Changed America Cover Image

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming Cover Image

Man Booker 2019 & Man Booker International 2019

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale Cover Image

Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Cover Image

Celestial Bodies Cover Image

Nebula & Hugo Award 2019

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel Cover Image