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Under the Radar April 2024
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Bad animals : a novel
by Sarah Braunstein
A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name.
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Fruit of the dead : a novel
by Rachel Lyon
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is set over the course of one summer on a lush private island and explores addiction and sex, family and independence and who holds the power in a modern underworld.
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A great country : a novel
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
This latest novel from the New York Times best-selling author explores how the aftermath of the arrest of a young sibling in a close-knit Indian-American family exposes both their close ties and fractures. 150,000 first printing.
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Great expectations : a novel
by Vinson Cunningham
A young Black man and father considers questions of history, art, race, religion and parenthood while coming to terms with his identity after accepting a job working on an Illinois senator's campaign to be the first Black president.
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Green frog : stories
by Gina Chung
A short story collection from an award-winning Korean American writer includes the tales of a pair of talking dolls that try to help twins escape a stifling home and a fox demon who considers avenging her sister's death. Original.
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Jaded
by Ela Lee
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Like happiness
by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Explores the complexities of gender, power, race and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer.
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Mother doll : a novel
by Katya Apekina
"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strangecall from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him from a cloud of ancestral grief, desperate to tell her story and receive absolution from Zhenia. As Irina begins her confession with the help of a purgatorial chorus of grieving Russian ghosts, Zhenia awakens to aspects of herself she hadn't been willing to confront. But does either woman have what the other needs to understand their predicament? Or will Irina be stuck in limbo, with Zhenia plagued by ancestral trauma, and her children after her?"
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Parasol against the axe
by Helen Oyeyemi
In Prague, a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting, on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie, Hero Tojosoa finds the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation blurring as tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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Thirst : a novel
by Marina Yuszczuk
In present day Buenos Aires, a woman, grappling with her dying mother, encounters a vampire in a cemetery, and as they confront fear, loneliness, mortality and yearning, something ignites between them while the weight of Buenos Aires' tumultuous past resurfaces in the dramas of the present.
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