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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family.
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| The Book of M by Peng ShepherdSometime in the near future, people are losing their shadows -- a precursor to losing all of their memories. Chaos ensues, and Ory and his wife Max flee to a mountain cabin to escape the violence -- and then Max loses her shadow and runs away. |
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Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
by Jo Piazza
An ambitious woman who wants it all leaves her Silicon Valley job to run for Senate against an underhanded opponent who forces her to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
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The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
A dark tale of violence, faith and loss follows the experiences of a young Korean-American woman at an elite university who is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult with ties to North Korea.
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The Late Bloomers' Club
by Louise Miller
Unexpectedly inheriting property from a beloved community baker, two headstrong sisters navigate growing hostilities about whether or not to sell, before the disappearance of the baker's dog forces everyone to work together.
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A Terrible Country
by Keith Gessen
After Andrei Kaplan returns to Moscow to care for his ailing grandmother, he becomes entangled with a group of leftists and is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid.
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Who Is Vera Kelly?
by Rosalie Knecht
After being recruited by the CIA to work undercover in Argentina, radio host Vera Kelly becomes close to a group of student activists, but, after a betrayal, she is left stranded and must take extreme measures to escape.
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