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Jack: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Marilynne Robinson

$27.00

ISBN: 9780374279301

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 29th, 2020
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)

By Helen MacDonald

$27.00

ISBN: 9780802128812

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Published: Grove Press - August 25th, 2020
The Lying Life of Adults (Hardcover)

By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

$26.00

ISBN: 9781609455910

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Published: Europa Editions - September 1st, 2020
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Hardcover)

By Eddie S. Glaude

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525575320

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Published: Crown - June 30th, 2020
Deacon King Kong: A Novel (Hardcover)

By James McBride

$28.00

ISBN: 9780735216723

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Published: Riverhead Books - March 3rd, 2020
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson

$32.00

ISBN: 9780593230251

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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
Transcendent Kingdom: A novel (Hardcover)

By Yaa Gyasi

$27.95

ISBN: 9780525658184

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Published: Knopf - September 1st, 2020
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (Hardcover)

By Natasha Trethewey

$27.99

ISBN: 9780062248572

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Published: Ecco - July 28th, 2020
The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Brit Bennett

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525536291

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Published: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020
Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions (Hardcover)

By Annik LaFarge

$27.00

ISBN: 9781501188718

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 11th, 2020
Utopia Avenue: A Novel (Hardcover)

By David Mitchell

$30.00

ISBN: 9780812997439

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Published: Random House - July 14th, 2020
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (Hardcover)

By Lauren Redniss

$30.00

ISBN: 9780399589720

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Published: Random House - November 17th, 2020

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