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Diverse Voices: New titles for Women's History Month |
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When I'm gone, look for me in the East
by Quan Barry
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama across windswept Mongolia, young monk Chulun and his estranged identical twin, Mun, who can hear each other’s thoughts, traverse through this land, making a journey where faith, love and brotherhood haunts them.
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Black girls must be magic : a novel
by Jayne Allen
Tabitha Walker is pregnant, single and exhausted from work, preparing for the baby and her on-and-off-again boyfriend, who has come back into her world with some surprising demands, in the second novel of the series. 25,000 first printing.
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Joan is okay : a novel
by Weike Wang
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
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Crying in H Mart : a memoir
by Michelle Zauner
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. Illustrations.
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Wahala : a novel
by Nikki May
When charismatic Isobel explodes into their close-knit group, at first seemingly bringing out the best in each woman, Boo, Simi and Ronke, three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, find their close friendship starting to crack as this lethally glamorous woman wreaks havoc on their lives. 125,000 first printing.
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Playing with fire
by Kiki Swinson
To make her dreams of becoming a great lawyer come true, Yoshi, brilliant, calculating and reckless, infiltrates the privileged circle of the school’s wealthiest students until she gets too close to a secret she isn’t willing to keep, which could cost her more than her life.
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All her little secrets : a novel
by Wanda M. Morris
The lone black female corporate attorney in midtown Manhattan discovers her white boss, and lover, dead with a gunshot wound to his head, and must deal with office suspicions and gossip when she is promoted as his successor.
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The days of Afrekete
by Asali Solomon
As Liselle Belmont prepares for a dinner party, she questions her marriage and her choices, while across town, Selena finds her memories of Liselle shifting her path in life, in this deeply human examination of two women coming back to themselves at midlife. 25,000 first printing.
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Monster in the middle
by Tiphanie Yanique
Exploring desire and identity, religion and class, passion and obligation, this novel follows a Black American musician and a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean whose newfound romance is influenced by family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing.
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Assembly
by Natasha Brown
A woman confronts the most important question of her life. A first novel.
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To paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human—fear, love, shame, need and loneliness.
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Violeta : a novel
by Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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Beasts of a Little Land
by Juhea Kim
After her desperate family sells her to a courtesan school, Jade befriends JungHo, an orphan boy begging on the streets of Seoul, and must decide to pursue her dreams or risk everything in the fight for independence. 100,000 first printing.
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