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Lucy Hemphill

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The Overhead Series

In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with intimate revelations on self-awareness and identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sea, forest and sky. Through skilled restraint and beautifully astute description, Haché‘s prose reaches past her own contemplation to connect us all. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his stunning and meteorologically accurate cloud drawings contribute to the overall sensory and transcendent expe...

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Lucy Hemphill

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The Overhead Series

In this second installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Haché once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sky and stars. Hache's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the vastness of the stars above. Masterfully illustrated by artist Michael Joyal, his evocative astronomic drawings contrib...

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Lucy Hemphill

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The Overhead Series

In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Hemphill's prose is extraordinary in its combination of self awareness yet unselfconscious honesty and skillful restraint, creating a sense of connection under the tangle of foliage and limb that ever-reach skyward. Masterfully ill...

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Tommy Orange

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Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young, Charley Flyte

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by...

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Tommy Orange

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Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).One of The Atlant...

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Vinson Cunningham

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Aaron Goodson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham.FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD/JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK“One of the smartest and most involving ...

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Mona Susan Power

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Isabella Star LaBlanc

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19****th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A ...

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Oscar Hokeah

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Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields

A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity.Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement ...

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Mona Awad

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Sophie Amoss

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER*FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST HORROR**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*“Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter“Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals**From the critically acclaimed author of

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Alan Hollinghurst

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Prasanna Puwanarajah

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)“The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The GuardianSHORTLISTED FOR A LAMMY AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, To...

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Mariana Enriquez

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Lee Osorio, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Sol Madariaga, Maria Liatis

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Megan McDowell

**The diabolical collection of short stories that inspired the Netflix series My Sad Dead, directed by Pablo Larraín.In these twelve spellbinding short stories, including “My Sad Dead” and the other stories behind the Netflix series, achingly human characters encounter ghosts, goblins, and the macabre as they try to understand themselves—by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, The New York Times)****WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER! BRAM STOK...

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Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith

**The New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction s...