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  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Hurston, Zora Neale
    Zora Neale Hurston

    Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

    From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)--the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkable stories, including eight "lost" Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. New York Times' Books...
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  • A Land Remembered by Smith, Patrick D.
    Patrick D. Smith

    A Land Remembered

    A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the...
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  • The Burning God by Kuang, R. F.
    R. F. Kuang

    The Burning God

    The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling...
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  • What Storm, What Thunder by Chancy, Myriam J. a.
    Myriam Ja Chancy

    What Storm, What Thunder

    At the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with...
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  • The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Hubbard, Ladee
    Ladee Hubbard

    The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories

    The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of interlocking short stories including the title story written exclusively for this volume, that explore relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen yearsThe twelve gripping...
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  • The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau by The Old School Writers Circle
    The Old School Writers Circle

    The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau

    Against a backdrop of late capitalism, globalization, media, and surveillance, The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau not only asks questions about how people's images, words, and lives are given a platform, used, and manipulated in the digital era, but also invites readers to question the...
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  • Stolen Moments of Joy by Baika, Hamour
    Hamour Baika

    Stolen Moments of Joy

    An "...engaging and readable tale about escaping the bonds of the past."Kirkus Reviews"Stolen Moments of Joy... offers far more social and political depth than many LGBTQ stories that focus on romance and sexual maturity alone... Readers gain solid insights into this culture and realistic...
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  • The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Imai Messina, Laura
    Laura Imai Messina

    The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

    Laura Imai Messina's international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming,...
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  • Nkani an African Prophecy by Ndjila, Blanchard Onanga
    Blanchard Onanga Ndjila

    Nkani an African Prophecy

    Nkani: An African Prophecy is a fascinating and engaging story about one man's prophecy and how his sons materialize it before he passes away. After his passing, he still has the floor to analyze, denounce, describe, make similarities; establish differences between the world of...
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  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Thammavongsa, Souvankham
    Souvankham Thammavongsa

    How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

    A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and winner of the 2020 Giller Prize, this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work...
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  • The Last Goddess by Tučková, Kateřina
    Kateřina Tučková

    The Last Goddess

    A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the...
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  • The Last Goddess by Tučková, Kateřina
    Kateřina Tučková

    The Last Goddess

    A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the...
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  • Class of 64 by Correia, Anne H.
    Anne H. Correia

    Class of 64

    In 1962, James and his family return to a changed Hong Kong after living in Malaya for five years. James is 15, and starting at a new high school-the prestigious La Salle College. As he adjusts to his new life, he finds himself fascinated...
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  • The Chief's Blanket and Other Plays by Likongwe, Smith
    Smith Likongwe

    The Chief's Blanket and Other Plays

    A book with six plays showcasing Malawi's traditions and cultural beliefs. The plays include issues like pre-marital pregnancy and connotations in the wake of misfortunes, girls' initiation ceremonies and respect for chiefs including the provision of 'blankets' as well as the appropriate manner of...
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  • Vintage Baldwin by Baldwin, James
    James Baldwin

    Vintage Baldwin

    The best of the best from a powerful voice in the American literary landscape who fearlessly tackled race, sex, politics, and art in his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays, and essays. "[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat,...
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  • Among The Pathans by Graydon, William Murray
    William Murray Graydon

    Among The Pathans

    When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub, I could have shouted for joy. I did not do it, though, for I well...
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  • The Village by Bunin, Ivan
    Ivan Bunin

    The Village

    The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the lives of a landowner and his self-educated peasant brother, the book...
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  • Rules of '48 by Cady, Jack
    Jack Cady

    Rules of '48

    In a working-class city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that will forever alter their perceptions of the world. These haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably mark their understanding of race and responsibility...
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  • Written on Stone: A Novel of Empowerment by Vandermeulen-Smart, Eelkje
    Eelkje Vandermeulen-Smart

    Written on Stone: A Novel of Empowerment

    Written on Stone is an epic tale which comes alive across the enormous abyss of time. It explores the psyche and spirit of a people who are forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. The Ainu of Japan, and others...
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  • How to Kidnap the Rich by Raina, Rahul
    Rahul Raina

    How to Kidnap the Rich

    "A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described 'lower lower middle class' 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster." --New York Times Book ReviewA fresh look at...
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  • Life Sentences by O'Callaghan, Billy
    Billy O'Callaghan

    Life Sentences

    "Poignant....powerful."--New York Times One Irish family's fight for survival makes for an unforgettable tale of love, abandonment, hunger, and redemption. At just sixteen, Nancy Martin leaves the small island of Cape Clear for the mainland, the only member of her family to survive the...
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  • The Clovis Dig by Fink, Teri
    Teri Fink

    The Clovis Dig

    When a shocking discovery is found among ancient artifacts during an archaeological dig in an orchard, an investigation of a different kind begins. Orchardist Claire Courtney must decide who to trust as she desperately tries to salvage what's left of her livelihood and her...
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  • Conquering Berlin by Bade, Wilfrid
    Wilfrid Bade

    Conquering Berlin

    Berlin: Capital of the Reich. In the heyday of the decadent Weimar Republic, the political heart of Germany is a Red fortress with streets overrun by communist gangs. While the brown-shirted SA-Men are ascendant in other parts of the country, only the bravest dare...
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  • Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Hillerman, Anne
    Anne Hillerman

    Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

    Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Spider Woman's Daughter is an intricately plotted, suspenseful, colorful, and unforgettable journey. Readers will fall in love with Bernie Manuelito and...
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  • The Apartment on Calle Uruguay by Lazar, Zachary
    Zachary Lazar

    The Apartment on Calle Uruguay

    Longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops...
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  • Disgrace by Coetzee, J. M.
    J. M. Coetzee

    Disgrace

    The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." --The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie...
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  • Wahala by May, Nikki
    Nikki May

    Wahala

    "Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth." -- Washington Post"Great fun and extremely smart." -- npr.orgNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Vogue * Marie Claire * Glamour * Essence * Oprah Daily * Entertainment Weekly *...
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  • We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Lama, Tsering Yangzom
    Tsering Yangzom Lama

    We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

    International BestsellerLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeFor readers of Homegoing and The Leavers, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family's journey through exile. In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the...
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  • The Butchers' Blessing by Gilligan, Ruth
    Ruth Gilligan

    The Butchers' Blessing

    Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient...
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  • Phenotypes by Scott, Paulo
    Paulo Scott

    Phenotypes

    Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize Winner of the 2023 Jabuti Prize in the Brazilian BookPublished Abroad category A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurkingin our hearts and institutions alike Federico and Louren輟 are brothers. Their father is black, a famedforensic...
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  • Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston by Olsvig, Josie
    Josie Olsvig

    Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston

    In the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution of slavery. From Hentie's abduction and confinement on a slaver ship, we follow her...
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  • The Yield by Winch, Tara June
    Tara June Winch

    The Yield

    Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award! "A beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present."--Kate Morton"A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia."--Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize...
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  • The Lowland by Lahiri, Jhumpa
    Jhumpa Lahiri

    The Lowland: National Book Award Finalist; Man Booker Prize Finalist

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary novel, set in India and America, that tells the story of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman...
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  • The Storyteller's Secret by Badani, Sejal
    Sejal Badani

    The Storyteller's Secret

    An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for...
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  • IQ by Ide, Joe
    Joe Ide

    IQ

    A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the...
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  • What a Happy Family by Dave, Saumya
    Saumya Dave

    What a Happy Family

    "A full, big hearted novel."--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & the Six Nestled in the suburbs of Atlanta, a family learns the funniest punchlines can hide the hardest truths in this evocative women's fiction novel from the author...
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  • A Suitable Boy by Seth, Vikram
    Vikram Seth

    A Suitable Boy

    "Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldA...
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  • Monkey Boy by Goldman, Francisco
    Francisco Goldman

    Monkey Boy

    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER"Painful, refractive, beautiful . . . Goldman is beloved."--New York Review of BooksIn Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman's "brilliantly constructed auto-fiction" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges...
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  • Members Only by Pandya, Sameer
    Sameer Pandya

    Members Only

    First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? This award-winning novel "offers deep insight into the ways the characters are...
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  • Carnival Lights by Stark, Chris
    Chris Stark

    Carnival Lights

    Minnesota Book Awards 2022 -- Finalist in Novel & Short StoryNortheastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) 2022 -- Winner in Fiction "Fluid in time and place, Carnival Lights flows between one past and another, offering a heartbreaking portrait of multigenerational trauma in the lives of...
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  • Home of the Floating Lily by Abdullah, Silmy
    Silmy Abdullah

    Home of the Floating Lily

    Home of the Floating Lily is a collection of eight short stories that provide a glimpse into the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants, mostly women, in Scarborough and the ways in which they deal with migration, displacement, and the longing for home as they move...
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  • Braised Pork by Yu, An
    An Yu

    Braised Pork

    Beautiful, dreamlike, and utterly intoxicating, Braised Pork is the beguiling debut of an outstandingly talented young writer who is based in China but writes in English One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband...
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  • Wait Until Spring, Bandini by Fante, John
    John Fante

    Wait Until Spring, Bandini

    He came along, kicking the snow. Here was a disgusted man. His name was Svevo Bandini, and he lived three blocks down that street. He was cold and there were holes in his shoes. That morning he had patched the holes on the inside...
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  • Crossing the Mangrove by Conde, Maryse
    Maryse Conde

    Crossing the Mangrove

    In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path...
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  • A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Villareal, Raymond A.
    Raymond A. Villareal

    A People's History of the Vampire Uprising

    In this ambitious and wildly original debut -- part social-political satire, part international mystery -- a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the...
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  • Daughters of the Occupation: A Novel of WWII by Sanders, Shelly
    Shelly Sanders

    Daughters of the Occupation: A Novel of WWII

    Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan's comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her...
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  • The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Joshi, Alka
    Alka Joshi

    The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

    New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi's sequel to The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur once again showcases Joshi's rich storytelling and talent for transporting readers to a different cultural place and time with themes that are universal. Here the year is...
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  • The Playwright's House by Suarez, Dariel
    Dariel Suarez

    The Playwright's House

    *SILVER MEDALIST in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Popular Fiction - English*Happily married, backed by a powerful mentor, and with career prospects that would take him abroad, Serguey has more than any young Cuban lawyer could ask for. But when his...
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  • Call Me Zebra by Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen
    Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

    Call Me Zebra

    Widely praised and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction among other mentions, Call Me Zebra follows a feisty heroine's idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons -- even as she navigates the murkier myseteries of love.Named...
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  • Train to Pakistan by Singh, Khushwant
    Khushwant Singh

    Train to Pakistan

    "In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people--Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs--were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was...
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