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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more. “An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history... [written in] lush, ornamental prose.”—The New Yorker. “Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us Descend will devour this lyrical and surreal saga.”—Oprah Daily. From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom. In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B.

New York Times bestseller • “A complex period tapestry inscribed with the age-old tragedy of love and death.”—The New York Times Book Review. “I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” In seventeenth-century China, in an elaborate villa on the shores of Hangzhou’s West Lake, Peony lives a sheltered life. One night, during a theatrical performance in her family’s garden, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately overcome with emotion.

"I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor, and satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!" —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow. For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant, deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of Honor Girl.

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Longlist, Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel, Indie Next List Pick—American Booksellers Association, Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction, Foreword Indies Silver Book of the Year—LGBTQ+ Fiction, Book of the Year: International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club, Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Book, Southern Literary Review Read of the Month, and Southern Literary Review's 2023 top ten books.

"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold, and Fannie Flagg." —Starred Review, Shelf Awareness. It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies—James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother, and no one will tell him how she died.

Hearts may freeze or thaw, but love never dies. In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna "Eddie" Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss's daughter.

A story of hope and perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable injustice, Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of expelled Chagossians in this timely examination of political oppression. Every afternoon a woman in a red headscarf walks to the end of the quay and looks out over the water, fixing her gaze "back there"—to Diego Garcia, one of the small islands forming the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. With no explanation, no warning, and only an hour to pack their belongings, the Chagossians were forced on a boat headed to Mauritius.

National Bestseller • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, author of Hide. Locus Award Finalist • A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot.

"Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . Stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Immortality is just a casting call away. World Fantasy Award Finalist. Locus Award Finalist. Ignyte Award Finalist. An Amazon Best Book of 2022. One of NPR's Best Books of 2022. Vulture's #1 Fantasy Novel of 2022. Indie Next List Reading Group Book of 2023.

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This powerful Little Women remix follows four young Black sisters coming of age during the American Civil War, reframing a much-beloved tale outside of its original, exclusively lily-white perspective. North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated.