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A Children's Bible : A Novel by Lydia MilletContemptuous of the equally neglectful and suffocating parents who would pass the summer in a stupor of drugs and sex, one dozen eerily mature children run away as a dangerous storm descends and subjects them to apocalyptic chaos.
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The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettSeparated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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A Burning by Megha MajumdarAn opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack. A first novel.
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The Index of Self-Destructive Acts : A Novel by Christopher R BehaCelebrated for his accurate media forecasts, a renowned data journalist profiles a disgraced political columnist and begins dating the man’s daughter before becoming entangled in complicated family dynamics involving investment losses, wartime trauma and baseball.
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If I had Two Wings : Stories by Randall KenanThe author of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Pa explores the eerie persistence of history, unstoppable loss, unexpected salvation and appetites of all kinds in 10 stories that chronicle ineffable events in everyday lives. Tour
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Shuggie Bain : A Novel by Douglas StuartA young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. A first novel.
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Interior Chinatown by Charles YuA stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown.
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If Then : How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of These Truths traces the Cold War origins of today’s data-driven world to the Simulmatics Corporation, describing how its scientists mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, and destabilized politics decades before the era of Silicon Valley. Illustrations. Tour.
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The Undocumented Americans : A Homecoming
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
An Ivy League-educated DACA beneficiary reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans, from the volunteers recruited for the 9/11 Ground Zero cleanup to the homeopathy botanicas of Miami that provide limited health care to non-citizens.
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The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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Caste : the Origins of our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives.
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The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers"A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave"
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Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden." In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor"The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portraitof a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bola©ło's 2666 or Faulkner's greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a worldthat becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it."
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Tokyo Ueno Station
by Miri Yū
Haunting the park near Tokyo’s Uneo Station, the ghost of a man whose life eerily paralleled the Emperor’s reflects on the milestones that impacted his existence, from his homelessness and the 2011 tsunami to the 1964 and 2020 Olympics.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 = : Palsip yi nyeon saeng Kim Jiyeong
by Nam-ju Cho
A U.S. release of a feminist best-seller from Korea follows the experiences of a millennial from Seoul who suddenly manifests the bizarre symptom of being able to flawlessly impersonate and then become any woman, alive or dead.
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When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal offamily and daily life in a refugee camp."
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The Way Back
by Gavriel Savit
Sent by the Angel of Death into the Jewish Far Country’s land of the transient dead, two teens make pacts with ancient demons and declare war on Death himself to reclaim their lives, in a tale based on folk tradition by the author of Anna and the Swallow Man. Simultaneous eBook.
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Lifting As We Climb : Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette DionneExplores the lesser-known efforts of such black suffrage activists as NAACP founder Mary Church Terrell, education advocate Anna Julia Cooper and journalist Ida B. Wells in helping African American women obtain the same rights as their white feminist counterparts.
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Bestiary by K-ming ChangTransforming into a manifestation of a tiger character from her Taiwanese heritage, Daughter falls in love with an equally remarkable girl while translating mysterious letters from female relatives who embody mythical archetypes. A first novel.
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Halsey Street by Naima Coster"After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins."
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Luster by Raven Leilani"Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage."
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A Place for Us : A Novel by Fatima Farheen MirzaA story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
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How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam ZhangTwo orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals. A first novel.
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