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  • Once Upon a Sunset by Marcelo, Tif
    Tif Marcelo

    Once Upon a Sunset

    The author of The Key to Happily Ever After--"a true gem filled with heart, laughs, and a cast of delightful characters" (Nina Bocci, USA TODAY bestselling author)--returns with a heartwarming and charming novel about a woman who travels to the Philippines to reconnect with...
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  • The Blood of Flowers by Amirrezvani, Anita
    Anita Amirrezvani

    The Blood of Flowers

    A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia. In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father...
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  • Netherland by O'Neill, Joseph
    Joseph O'Neill

    Netherland

    A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD - "Netherland tells the fragmented story of a man in exile--from home, family and, most poignantly, from himself." --Washington Post Book World In a New York City...
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  • El Filibusterismo by Rizal, Jose
    Jose Rizal

    El Filibusterismo

    In the spirit of The Count of Monte Cristo and Les Mis rables, a major new translation-Jos Rizal's stunning continuation of Noli Me Tangere. Jos Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely...
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  • Finding Moon by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Finding Moon

    A phone call in 1975 changes Moon Mathias's life forever, as a voice on the line tells him his dead brother's baby daughter--a child Moon never knew existed--is waiting for him in Southeast Asia.A task he believes beyond his meager talents is pulling Moon...
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  • Eddie's Goat by Prewett, Travis
    Travis Prewett

    Eddie's Goat

    Eddie Pierce has one job in the rural community simply known as the valley. He is the caretaker of Mrs. Claire's goats. It would be an easy enough business if it weren't for devilish Tiny and his impressive set of horns. But Tiny isn't...
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  • One Year of Ugly by MacKenzie, Caroline
    Caroline MacKenzie

    One Year of Ugly

    A "sparkling account" (Publishers Weekly) of the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family during their disastrous illegal residence in Trinidad that poignantly captures the complexities of dysfunctional families and passionate (but sometimes messy) romance. After fleeing crumbling, volatile Venezuela, Yola Palacio wants nothing...
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  • Straight from the Horse's Mouth by Alaoui, Meryem
    Meryem Alaoui

    Straight from the Horse's Mouth

    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Public Library This hilarious, colorful portrait of a sex worker navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old prostitute Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a...
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  • Cold is the Dawn: A Novel of Irish Exile and the Great Irish Famine by Egan, Charles
    Charles Egan

    Cold is the Dawn: A Novel of Irish Exile and the Great Irish Famine

    Hunger deepened in Ireland in 1848 as the potato crop failed again.In London, the government, alarmed by austerity in England and revolution in Europe, refused to re-open the soup kitchens in Ireland. But, worse still, they refused to halt food exports from the starving...
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  • The Angel of History by Alameddine, Rabih
    Rabih Alameddine

    The Angel of History

    A Washington Independent Review of Books, Literary Hub, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year An Unnecessary Woman won the California Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN Open Book...
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  • The Blacker the Berry by Thurman, Wallace
    Wallace Thurman

    The Blacker the Berry

    "The tragedy of her life was that she was too black," declares the narrator at the start of this powerful novel of intraracial prejudice. Emma Lou Morgan lives in a world of scorn and shame, not because her skin is black, but because it's...
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  • House of Many Gods by Davenport, Kiana
    Kiana Davenport

    House of Many Gods

    From Kiana Davenport, the bestselling author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, comes another mesmerizing novel about her people and her islands. Told in spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods is a deeply complex and provocative love story set against...
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  • The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Jaswal, Balli Kaur
    Balli Kaur Jaswal

    The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

    The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama--an Indian This Is Where I Leave You--about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay...
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  • A Long Road There by Pickett, Virginia
    Virginia Pickett

    A Long Road There

    A Long Road There chronicles the immigrant journey of Magdalena Mok, a young woman whose restless, yearning, and independent spirit guided her from Germany, across the Atlantic, to America. While Magdalena is the great-grandmother of the author, Pickett as a novelist imagines the vibrant...
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  • Baltimore Catechism: A Year of Confirmation by Hourihan, John T.
    John T. Hourihan

    Baltimore Catechism: A Year of Confirmation

    When readers first met John as a young boy in the book Baltimore Catechism: Clean Slate, he had just begun attending Catholic school and spent much of his time trying to discern exactly what the nuns were teaching him and what it really meant...
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  • Moonlight - The Journey Begins by Das, Purabi Sinha
    Purabi Sinha Das

    Moonlight - The Journey Begins

    When Chandni Rai turned thirteen, two things happened to change the course of her entire life. Her father died suddenly. And, she discovered a clue to the mystery of her missing grandmother who had been a child-bride - a piece of paper stuck behind...
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  • It Always Rains on Wednesday: Book One: Genesis by Hackney, R. Douglas
    R. Douglas Hackney

    It Always Rains on Wednesday: Book One: Genesis

    A strange unchartered world awaits Monte Scott, a young and inexperienced vocational rehabilitation counselor assigned to work at a residential school for the blind. From the first moments, his life is challenged and changed by confrontation with students, teachers and events in ways previously...
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  • The Art of Losing by Zeniter, Alice
    Alice Zeniter

    The Art of Losing

    Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Na?a knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in...
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  • Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel by Escobar, Mario
    Mario Escobar

    Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel

    Amid the shadows of war, one family faces an impossible choice that will change their lives forever. From bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of sacrifice and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their...
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  • Include Me Out by Cristoff, María Sonia
    Mar? Sonia Cristoff

    Include Me Out

    A striking, clever novel.--Publishers WeeklyMara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes...
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  • Song for Night by Abani, Chris
    Chris Abani

    Song for Night

    "Chris Abani might be the most courageous writer working right now. There is no subject matter he finds daunting, no challenge he fears. Aside from that, he's stunningly prolific and writes like an angel. If you want to get at the molten heart of...
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  • American Fork by Handley, George B.
    George B. Handley

    American Fork

    Zacharias Harker is a brilliant botanist and an aging recluse. Haunted by his mistakes and living without his wife and daughter for the past twenty years, he hatches the idea to write his magnum opus, a book on the implications of climate change for...
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  • Forgotten Country by Chung, Catherine
    Catherine Chung

    Forgotten Country

    A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick "A richly emotional portrait of a family that had me spellbound from page one."--Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild The night before Janie's sister, Hannah, is born, her...
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  • Trans(re)Lating House One by Missaghi, Poupeh
    Poupeh Missaghi

    Trans(re)Lating House One

    In the aftermath of Iran's 2009 election, a woman undertakes a search for the statues disappearing from Tehran's public spaces. A chance meeting alters her trajectory, and the space between fiction and reality narrows. As she circles the city's points of connection--teahouses, buses, galleries,...
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  • Souls in the Twilight by Scruton, Roger
    Roger Scruton

    Souls in the Twilight

    "Scruton's multifaceted exploration of what it means to be a relational and responsible person is one of the great philosophical and literary projects of our time." -- Daniel J. Mahoney, The New Criterion Follow the stories of lost souls seeking their place of belonging....
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  • Alentejo Blue by Ali
    Ali

    Alentejo Blue

    Following her National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times Book Award-nominated, bestselling debut, Brick Lane, Monica Ali's splendid Alentejo Blue "rewards readers with characters who etch themselves into one's memory" (People). Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of...
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  • America for Beginners by Franqui, Leah
    Leah Franqui

    America for Beginners

    Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships forged in unusual...
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  • Forest Dark by Krauss, Nicole
    Nicole Krauss

    Forest Dark

    National Bestseller - A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth"One of America's...
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  • The Story Hour by Umrigar, Thrity
    Thrity Umrigar

    The Story Hour

    "Thrity Umrigar has an uncanny ability to look deeply into the human heart and find the absolute truth of our lives. The Story Hour is stunning and beautiful. Lakshmi and Maggie will stay with readers for a very long time." -- Luis Alberto Urrea,...
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  • Sankofa by Onuzo, Chibundu
    Chibundu Onuzo

    Sankofa

    Author: Chibundu OnuzoISBN-10: 1432897527ISBN-13: 9781432897529Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2022Pages: 419Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.30w x 0.90dLarge Print
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  • Gray's Harbor: Finding Refuge Among Shorebirds and Saints by Henderson, Martha L.
    Martha L. Henderson

    Gray's Harbor: Finding Refuge Among Shorebirds and Saints

    Gray Quinn watched the tide create ripples in the mudflats that lay gurgling and gasping around the rocks where he sat. He thought of his ancestor, Captain Gray, who would have stood on the bow of the Lady Washington in 1788 watching the same...
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  • The Parted Earth by Enjeti, Anjali
    Anjali Enjeti

    The Parted Earth

    Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women.The story begins in August 1947....
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  • Silence Is a Sense by Alammar, Layla
    Layla Alammar

    Silence Is a Sense

    "This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." --The New York Times Book Review A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war--and the healing power of community. A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the...
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  • Manam by Elkouri, Rima
    Rima Elkouri

    Manam

    Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, 2022.Translated from French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.L饌 is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn't a large part of...
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  • Sacred Clowns: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Sacred Clowns: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel

    Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes another unforgettable mystery in which Leaphorn & Chee must race against the clock to solve...
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  • Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories by Chai, May-Lee
    May-Lee Chai

    Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories

    In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is...
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  • Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel by Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk
    Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

    Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel

    Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken...
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  • The Cry of the Dove by Faqir, Fadia
    Fadia Faqir

    The Cry of the Dove

    "Exquisitely woven."--Leila AboulelaTimely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world today. Salma has committed a crime...
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  • Dreamers of the Day by Russell, Mary Doria
    Mary Doria Russell

    Dreamers of the Day

    A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel"Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in...
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  • Omerta by Puzo, Mario
    Mario Puzo

    Omerta

    To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted...
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  • What We Were Promised by Tan, Lucy
    Lucy Tan

    What We Were Promised

    Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises. After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China....
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  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Guo, Xiaolu
    Xiaolu Guo

    A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

    From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West--and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang--or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners--has...
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  • East Goes West by Kang, Younghill
    Younghill Kang

    East Goes West

    One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years "A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature A Penguin Classic Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise...
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  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith, Betty
    Betty Smith

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit....
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  • The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Gifford, Elisabeth
    Elisabeth Gifford

    The Lost Lights of St Kilda

    1927: When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St. Kilda, little does he realize that he has joined the last community to ever live on that beautiful, isolated island. Only three years later, St. Kilda will be evacuated, the islanders near dead from...
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  • Best Class You Never Had by Cullen, Jim
    Jim Cullen

    Best Class You Never Had

    A classroom of skeptical students and their charismatic teacher make a foray into the nation's past. The characters are fictive; the history--most importantly, the vision of history, grounded in a dying but immortal dream--is real. History teacher Kevin Lee is retiring from Seneca Falls...
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  • The Cook by De Kerangal, Maylis
    Maylis De Kerangal

    The Cook

    "A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) 'Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'" --Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for MarchMaylis de Kerangal follows...
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  • Thank You for the Shoes: the story of an extraordinary ordinary man by Rizzo, Raffaelamarie
    Raffaelamarie Rizzo

    Thank You for the Shoes: the story of an extraordinary ordinary man

    THANK YOU FOR THE SHOES: THE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY MAN This story is based on the life of a man named Michelangelo Rizzo, known as Michele to his family and later Mike to everyone else. It reads like a novel and spans...
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  • The Healing by Jones, Gayl
    Gayl Jones

    The Healing

    A new edition of a National Book Award finalist follows a black faith healer whose shrewd observations about human nature are told with the rich lyricism of the oral storytelling tradition. From the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing follows Harlan Jane Eagleton as...
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  • Miss Burma by Craig, Charmaine
    Charmaine Craig

    Miss Burma

    A powerful and epic novel of colonialism, ethnicity, and the ties of blood, Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of one family struggling to find love, justice, and meaning during a time of war and political repression. Miss Burma...
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