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A Novel
by Jane Smiley
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by Amy Chua
Published Aug 2024
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by Leyna Krow
Published Jul 2023
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape - trying not just to survive but to find a home.
by Emma Donoghue
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsEmma Donoghue digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime in a lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes, capturing the pulse of a boomtown like no other.
by Jane Smiley
Published Jun 2011
Read ReviewsA riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womans life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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