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The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : life in Native America
by David Treuer
"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated-if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today-and the fight to preserve language and traditions"
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America is not the heart
by Elaine Castillo
Hero arrives in the United States from the Philippines to stay with her uncle Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a promise not to ask about her past during the violent political history of their home country.
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A particular kind of black man
by Tope Folarin
A Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing offers a novel about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation into American life. 50,000 first printing.
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And they lived happily ever after
by Therese Beharrie
"Romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her bestselling novels...[H]er dream life is the only one she trusts...Workaholic businessman Jacob Scott has had a crush on his brother's best friend, Gaia,since forever-but he never expected to literally share her dreams...But Gaia has secrets from her past she won't reveal. And Jacob's attempts to keep the peace in his own fractured family puts him up against her deepest fears"
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The opium prince
by Jasmine Aimaq
Accidentally killing a young Kochi girl while driving through Kabul, an Afghan-American foreign-aid worker is confronted by an opium dealers threats, the loss of his marriage and wrenching guilt over the local regimes indifference. A first novel.
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A question mark is half a heart
by Sofia Lundberg
A successful Manhattan photographer is drawn back to her past as a poverty-stricken child in Paris whose daily realities were shaped by an abusive parent and a friend who still remembers her deepest secrets. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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I was never the First Lady : a novel
by Wendy Guerra
A Cuban woman who was abandoned as a child by her mother who left to join the revolution begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family after winning a scholarship to study in Russia. 35,000 first printing.
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The republic of false truths
by 'Alā' Aswānī
In 2011 Cairo, as tensions are rising in the city, the lives of several individuals collide — a new generation who finds a voice and love across class divides as the revolution gains strength.
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Bullet train : a novel
by Kōtarō Isaka
Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesnt realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same. 50,000 first printing.
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Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
A follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
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The only good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"
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This thing between us
by Gus Moreno
When his wife is killed, Thiago, with politicians all looking to turn her death into a symbol for their own agendas, holes up in a secluded cabin in Colorado where he cannot escape from the evil feeding on his grief and rage, determined to make its way into this world. Original.
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The mountains sing : a novel
by Phan Quế Mai Nguyễn
Years after a family is forced by Vietnams Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A first English-language translation. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
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The henna artist
by Alka Joshi
"A talented henna artist for wealthy confidantes finds her efforts to control her own destiny in 1950s Jaipur threatened by the abusive husband she fled as a teenage girl"
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