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  • Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

    Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

    Ten Lives: How What We Have Shapes Who We Are

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  • The First War

    The First War

    The First War

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  • Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice: A Novel

    Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice: A Novel

    Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice: A Novel

    Regular price $30.00 USD
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  • The Squatters: A Novel

    The Squatters: A Novel

    The Squatters: A Novel

    Regular price $29.00 USD
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  • Take My Word for It: A Memoir

    Take My Word for It: A Memoir

    Take My Word for It: A Memoir

    Regular price $32.00 USD
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  • Crash into You

    Crash into You

    Crash into You

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  • Beyond the Baths of Stars: A Novel

    Beyond the Baths of Stars: A Novel

    Beyond the Baths of Stars: A Novel

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  • What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

    What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

    What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

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  • The Waiter: An Interactive Story

    The Waiter: An Interactive Story

    The Waiter: An Interactive Story

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  • A Glacier's Guide to Dying

    A Glacier's Guide to Dying

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    A Glacier's Guide to Dying

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  • This Impossible Life: A Novel

    This Impossible Life: A Novel

    This Impossible Life: A Novel

    Regular price $32.00 USD
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  • We Make the World: Guided Aesthetics Practices for Art, Power, and Healing

    We Make the World: Guided Aesthetics Practices for Art, Power, and Healing

    We Make the World: Guided Aesthetics Practices for Art, Power, and Healing

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National Book Awards 2026

  • The Disappearers: A Novel

    The Disappearers: A Novel

    The Disappearers: A Novel

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  • Night of a Thousand Hells

    Night of a Thousand Hells

    Night of a Thousand Hells

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  • Dèy: A Novel

    Dèy: A Novel

    Dèy: A Novel

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  • We

    We

    We

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  • Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming

    Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming

    Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming

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  • Red Ants: Stories

    Red Ants: Stories

    Red Ants: Stories

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  • Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza

    Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza

    Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza

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  • That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic

    That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic

    That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic

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  • The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

    The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

    The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

    Regular price $35.00 USD
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  • Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

    Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

    Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America

    Regular price $32.00 USD
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  • Shook

    Shook

    Shook

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  • Beginning Middle End: A Novel

    Beginning Middle End: A Novel

    Beginning Middle End: A Novel

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  • [PREORDER] Infernal Vow

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  • [PREORDER] Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

    [PREORDER] Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

    [PREORDER] Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

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  • [PREORDER] The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense

    [PREORDER] The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense

    [PREORDER] The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense

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  • [PREORDER] Hope You Still Love Me

    [PREORDER] Hope You Still Love Me

    [PREORDER] Hope You Still Love Me

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  • [PREORDER] Bound by Fate

    [PREORDER] Bound by Fate

    [PREORDER] Bound by Fate

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  • [PREORDER] The Cost of Code-Switching: And How We Get Free

    [PREORDER] The Cost of Code-Switching: And How We Get Free

    [PREORDER] The Cost of Code-Switching: And How We Get Free

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  • [PREORDER] Good, God: A Creation Story

    [PREORDER] Good, God: A Creation Story

    [PREORDER] Good, God: A Creation Story

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  • [PREORDER] Black Women Writers at Work in the 21st Century

    [PREORDER] Black Women Writers at Work in the 21st Century

    [PREORDER] Black Women Writers at Work in the 21st Century

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  • [PREORDER] Wells Without Water: A Novel

    [PREORDER] Wells Without Water: A Novel

    [PREORDER] Wells Without Water: A Novel

    Regular price $28.00 USD
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  • [PREORDER] Eclipse & the Wolf: A Novel

    [PREORDER] Eclipse & the Wolf: A Novel

    [PREORDER] Eclipse & the Wolf: A Novel

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  • [PREORDER] It Takes a Village

    [PREORDER] It Takes a Village

    [PREORDER] It Takes a Village

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  • [PREORDER] You Part Two: Aligning Your Head, Heart & Hormones in Middle Life

    [PREORDER] You Part Two: Aligning Your Head, Heart & Hormones in Middle Life

    [PREORDER] You Part Two: Aligning Your Head, Heart & Hormones in Middle Life

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