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Multicultural Authors Feb-Mar 2024
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Family Lore : a Novel
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after gathering to honor Flor, who can predict the day someone will die, decides to throw herself a huge party as a living wake.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Friday Black.
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Witness : Stories
by Jamel Brinkley
Set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, this collection of ten stories, introducing a wide range of unforgettable characters, presents portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief and the meaning of home.
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The Haunting of Alejandra
by V. Castro
Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
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The Enchanted Hacienda
by J. C. Cervantes
Harlow Estrada returns to the enchanted Hacienda Estrada, a family farm in Mexico where her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins harness the magic of charmed flowers, but when she's chosen to watch over the farm, she panics since she, herself, is magic-less, until she opens her heart to love and creativity.
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The Storm We Made : a Novel
by Vanessa Chan
In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
by Tara Ison
A teenage Jewish girl, who is relocated from Paris to a small village in Vichy during World War II is placed into hiding with a Catholic family where she becomes increasingly and dangerously aligned with her invented identity.
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The Laughter : a Novel
by Sonora Jha
Becoming dangerously obsessed with his new colleague, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor who ignites his long-dormant passions, tenured English professor Dr. Oliver Harding tries to reconcile his discomfort with the world in which she comes from and quiet his sense of dismay at the encroaching change she represents.
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Yours Truly
by Abby Jimenez
When Dr. Jacob Maddox, whom she is prepared to hate, sends her a letter, which leads to sharing lunch dates in her “sob closet,” Dr. Briana Ortiz tries not to fall hard for this sexy new doctor, especially when he gives her the best gift imaginable—a kidney for her brother.
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Greek Lessons : a Novel
by Kang Han
A young Korean woman losing her ability to speak befriends a Greek language teacher who is losing his sight, and soon they discover they have even more in common, in the new novel from the International Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.
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Before We Say Goodbye : a Novel
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A new set of customers at a Tokyo café experience a trip into the past as long as they return before their coffee gets cold, in the fourth novel of the series following Before Your Memory Fades.
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The Liberators : a Novel
by EJ Koh
Spanning continents and four generations of two Korean families forever changed by fateful past decisions made in love and war, this elegantly wrought family saga of memory, trauma and empathy serves as a brilliant testament to the consequences and fortunes of inheritance.
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The Leftover Woman : a Novel
by Jean Kwok
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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Roman Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated from Italian into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this masterful collection of nine short stories has Rome, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical, as the protagonist, not the setting.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Nightbloom
by Peace A. Medie
When a crisis in Ghana brings her back together with her friend, Selasi, Akorfa—studying to be a doctor in America, where she experiences the insidious ways racism places obstacles in her path—discovers Selasi's secret and is forced to reckon with her role in their estrangement.
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Sammy Espinoza's Last Review : a Novel
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
With her life a raging dumpster fire, music critic Sammy Espinoza, to guarantee her professional comeback, arrives in Ridley Falls, Washington, to gain exclusive access to former rock god Max Ryan's first ever solo album—and get revenge on this man who ghosted her after an unforgettable night together.
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The Quiet Tenant
by Clemence Michallon
A kidnapper and serial killer, widower Aidan Thomas, a hardworking family man and beloved figure in his community, moves with his 13-year-old daughter to a new town, taking along Rachel, the woman he's earmarked for death who tests the boundaries of her new living situation to escape.
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Call and Response : Stories
by Gothataone Moeng
A collection of stories set in modern Botswana include that of a young widow who adheres to the cultural expectation of wearing mourning clothes for a year and a woman who hides her sexual exploits.
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The Rachel Incident : a Novel
by Caroline O'Donoghue
Roommates and best friends Rachel and James, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while Ireland is in chaos, find their fates intertwined with a married professor, with whom Rachel falls in love, and his glamorous, well-connected bourgeois wife through a series of secrets and compromises.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a Novel
by Raul Palma
When Alexi, the debt collector who has been hounding him for years, asks him for spiritual help in exchange for forgiving his debt, widow and babaláwo Hugo Contreras finds the job to be more than he bargained for when memories from his past collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax.
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Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? : a Novel
by Crystal Smith Paul
After a silver screen icon dies and leaves her huge estate to three sisters, one of them discovers that the actress was really their grandmother, a black woman who had “passed” for white for over 60 years.
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The Berry Pickers : a Novel
by Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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A Grandmother Begins the Story
by Michelle Porter
Five generations of Indigenous women from Canada's Prairie Provinces struggle for healing and meaning through the strength of familial bonds, in the debut fiction novel from the award-winning author of Scratching River.
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Las Madres : a Novel
by Esmeralda Santiago
Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends “las Madres” and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open, in a novel of women's sexuality, shame, disability and love.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he's really who he says he is or if he's a fraud.
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In the Upper Country
by Kai Thomas
Summoned to a neighboring farm to gather testimony after an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad kills a slave hunter, Lensinda Martin accepts the woman's proposed barter of a story for a story instead of a confession.
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Crook Manifesto : a Novel
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys.
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