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Disappearing Earth: A novel Cover Image

Disappearing Earth: A novel (Hardcover)

By Julia Phillips
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525520412
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Published: Knopf - May 14th, 2019
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The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown (Hardcover)

By Mac Barnett, Sarah Jacoby (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062393449
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Published: Balzer + Bray - May 21st, 2019
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If I Was the Sunshine (Hardcover)

By Julie Fogliano, Loren Long (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781481472432
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - May 7th, 2019
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Exhalation: Stories (Hardcover)

By Ted Chiang
$25.95
ISBN: 9781101947883
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Published: Knopf - May 7th, 2019
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel Cover Image

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Juliet Grames
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062862822
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Published: Ecco - May 7th, 2019
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)

By Casey Cep
$26.95
ISBN: 9781101947869
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Published: Knopf - May 7th, 2019
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found Cover Image

The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found (Hardcover)

By Violet Moller
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385541763
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Published: Doubleday - May 14th, 2019
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague Cover Image

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague (Hardcover)

By David K. Randall
$26.95
ISBN: 9780393609455
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 7th, 2019
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Glitch (Paperback)

By Sarah Graley, Sarah Graley (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781338174519
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Published: Graphix - May 14th, 2019
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A Wolf Called Wander (Hardcover)

By Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062895936
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Published: Greenwillow Books - May 7th, 2019
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With the Fire on High (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Acevedo
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062662835
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Published: HarperTeen - May 7th, 2019
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The Missing of Clairdelune: Book Two of the Mirror Visitor Quartet (Hardcover)

By Christelle Dabos, Hildegarde Serle (Translator)
$20.95
ISBN: 9781609455071
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Published: Europa Editions - May 7th, 2019
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You Made Me a Dad (Hardcover)

By Laurenne Sala, Mike Malbrough (Illustrator)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062396945
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Published: HarperCollins - May 7th, 2019
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Shuri: The Search for Black Panther (Paperback)

By Nnedi Okorafor, Leonardo Romero (By (artist))
$15.99
ISBN: 9781302915230
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Published: Marvel - May 7th, 2019
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Spinning Silver: A Novel (Paperback)

By Naomi Novik
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399180996
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Published: Del Rey - May 7th, 2019
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I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works. Cover Image

I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works. (Paperback)

By Ramit Sethi
$15.95
ISBN: 9781523505746
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Published: Workman Publishing Company - May 14th, 2019
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City of Girls: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Gilbert
$28.00
ISBN: 9781594634734
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 4th, 2019
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The Girl Who Sailed the Stars (Hardcover)

By Matilda Woods, Anuska Allepuz (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780525515241
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Published: Philomel Books - June 25th, 2019
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Big Sky (Jackson Brodie #5) (Hardcover)

By Kate Atkinson
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316523097
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 25th, 2019
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Time After Time: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lisa Grunwald
$27.00
ISBN: 9780812993431
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Published: Random House - June 11th, 2019
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation Cover Image

The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation (Hardcover)

By Rich Cohen
$28.00
ISBN: 9780399589928
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Published: Spiegel & Grau - June 4th, 2019
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Magic for Liars: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Sarah Gailey
$25.99
ISBN: 9781250174611
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Published: Tor Books - June 4th, 2019
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Heart of Iron (Paperback)

By Ashley Poston
$9.99
ISBN: 9780062652867
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Published: Balzer + Bray - June 25th, 2019
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Neal Stephenson
$35.00
ISBN: 9780062458711
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Published: William Morrow - June 4th, 2019
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Far from the Tree (Paperback)

By Robin Benway
$9.99
ISBN: 9780062330635
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Published: HarperTeen - June 4th, 2019
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The History of Living Forever: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jake Wolff
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374170660
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 11th, 2019
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Recursion: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Blake Crouch
$27.00
ISBN: 9781524759780
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Published: Crown - June 11th, 2019
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Hardcover)

By Robert MacFarlane
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393242140
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 4th, 2019
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The Great Believers: A Novel (Paperback)

By Rebecca Makkai
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735223530
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Published: Penguin Books - June 4th, 2019
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Sorcery of Thorns (Hardcover)

By Margaret Rogerson
$17.99
ISBN: 9781481497619
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - June 4th, 2019
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Lake Success: A Novel (Paperback)

By Gary Shteyngart
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812987201
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - June 4th, 2019