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  • Thirst by Barron, K. L.
    K. L. Barron

    Thirst

    A stunning betrayal forces a young woman to flee a relationship and forge a new life in one of the most brutal landscapes on earth. Gradually adapting to her new surroundings, she becomes aware of the impending dissolution of an entire culture. A diverse...
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  • New Stories from the Midwest 2013 by Brown, Rosellen
    Rosellen Brown

    New Stories from the Midwest 2013

    The New Stories from the Midwest (2013) anthology seeks to support and spotlight the flourishing crop of Midwestern writers who consistently produce work that is innovative, finely crafted, and strong in voice. The anthology will be released from New American Press every other year,...
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  • Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel by Genis, Alexander
    Alexander Genis

    Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel

    Dovlatov and Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Characterized by Genis as an obituary, this book makes plain the significance of Dovlatov to Russian literature and the nuances of...
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  • Not by the Book: The Pencil Pro by Rosenthal, Roni
    Roni Rosenthal

    Not by the Book: The Pencil Pro

    Adam Schwartz is a motivated high school teacher bothered by the lack of his students' creative ideas in their attempt to write essays for their college applications. Together with his best friends, Drew, a twice-divorced attorney; Kenny, a senior trade consultant in a real-estate...
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  • Death by Fire by Reynolds, Anderson
    Anderson Reynolds

    Death by Fire

    Set in the picturesque Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Death by Fire is an epic novel in which natural calamities, historical events, supernatural forces, and betrayed love all combine in deciding the fate of its characters. Felina, a woman with a childhood plagued by...
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  • Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel by Genis, Alexander
    Alexander Genis

    Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel

    Dovlatov and Surroundings is a literary ode by one of the most consequential late 20th-century Russian writers, Alexander Genis, to another: Sergei Dovlatov. Characterized by Genis as an obituary, this book makes plain the significance of Dovlatov to Russian literature and the nuances of...
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  • The Heart's Desire by Rachlin, Nahid
    Nahid Rachlin

    The Heart's Desire

    Jennifer Sahary, an American artist, and her husband Karim, a professor and Iranian immigrant, make an extended visit to Teheran shortly after the Iran-Iraq War, encountering unforeseen dangers and sexual temptations that change the course of their lives.When their young son is taken by...
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  • The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by Vassanji, M. G.
    M. G. Vassanji

    The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

    Vikram Lall comes of age in 1950s Kenya, at the same time that the colony is struggling towards independence. Against the unsettling backdrop of Mau Mau violence, Vic and his sister Deepa, the grandchildren of an Indian railroad worker, search for their place in...
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  • Married to a Stranger by Rachlin, Nahid
    Nahid Rachlin

    Married to a Stranger

    A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting."--Ruth Prawer JhabvalaWhen Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing--an intellectual and a radical--and moves to Abadan, a thriving oil town...
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  • La Kanada Verkaro by Antologio, La Societo Por Kanada
    La Societo Por Kanada Antologio

    La Kanada Verkaro

    La Kanada Verkaro estas antaŭ ĉio antologio de noveloj, rakontoj kaj legendoj el la literaruroj angla, franca, kaj indiĝena de Kanado ek de 1789 ĝis 2007. Jen kelkaj de la aŭtoroj: Francis Brooke, L. Frechette, Jessie Georgina Sime, Stephen Leacock, Morley Callaghan, W.O. Mitchell,...
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  • Great American Desert: Stories by Svoboda, Terese
    Terese Svoboda

    Great American Desert: Stories

    Water, its use and abuse, trickles through Great American Desert, a story collection by Terese Svoboda that spans the misadventures of the prehistoric Clovis people to the wanderings of a forlorn couple around a pink pyramid in a sci-fi prairie. In "Dutch Joe," the...
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  • Poland, a Green Land by Appelfeld, Aharon
    Aharon Appelfeld

    Poland, a Green Land

    A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy--and is completely unprepared for what he finds there. Yaakov Fine's practical wife and daughters are baffled by his decision to leave his flourishing dress...
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  • The Tree Bride by Mukherjee, Bharati
    Bharati Mukherjee

    The Tree Bride

    National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters--influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee...
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  • Rock-Bound: A Story of the Shetland Isles by Saxby, Jessie M. E.
    Jessie M. E. Saxby

    Rock-Bound: A Story of the Shetland Isles

    Young Inga Henderson has grown up as the daughter of the manse on a northerly Shetland isle named Vaalafiel. She is without a father; he died in a mysterious tragedy on a boat trip to Europe, in which his best friend also died, and...
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  • Evil Eye by Rum, Etaf
    Etaf Rum

    Evil Eye

    "A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!"--Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last...
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  • Greek Lessons by Kang, Han
    Han Kang

    Greek Lessons

    An intimate, dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the visionary (New York Times Book Review) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer...
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  • Insufficiency of Maps by Pierce, Nora
    Nora Pierce

    Insufficiency of Maps

    In this powerful debut novel by award-winning Nora Pierce, a young girl must discover the meaning of self and family as she struggles to find her place between two contrasting realities. On the reservation, Alice lives in a run-down trailer. Both her parents are...
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  • Rootless by Appiah, Krystle Zara
    Krystle Zara Appiah

    Rootless

    WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD - A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? "Beautiful, gripping, and tender . . . a powerful and...
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  • Black Tea: The story is about India's bias against darker skin color, particularly pertaining to women. by Madhukar, Madhu S.
    Madhu S. Madhukar

    Black Tea: The story is about India's bias against darker skin color, particularly pertaining to women.

    Black Tea tells the story of a family. Seemingly perfect on the exterior, this Indian family bears burdens that transcend all forms of logic and reasoning. It tells of the conflict between a mother and a daughter, who are torn apart by their acceptance,...
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  • Fish, Blood and Bone by Forbes, Leslie
    Leslie Forbes

    Fish, Blood and Bone

    Three families across two centuries. A shared history of love and murder.And one woman's passion for life and obsession with death. . . Expatriate Claire Fleetwood is a forensic photographer adept at turning the bones of the dead into silvery, telling shadows. When she...
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  • Fire Rush by Crooks, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Crooks

    Fire Rush

    FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 "[A] powerful debut." --The Washington Post "An exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer." --Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in...
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  • Nectar From Sea of Fire by Jayakumar, Prema
    Prema Jayakumar

    Nectar From Sea of Fire

    Nectar from Sea of Fire portrays the untold story of one among the greatest sage poets of India - Tunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan. The life and work of this renowned sage, poet and teacher, who lived five conturies ago, is succinctly pieced together and passionately...
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  • Not Where I Started from by Wheeler, Kate
    Kate Wheeler

    Not Where I Started from

    Kate Wheeler's stories feature peripatetic Americans who seek love or enlightenment - or both - in far-flung corners of the globe. A startling mixture of gentle irony, mischievous humor, and unexpected danger marks the paths of all these characters as they follow their circuitous...
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  • The Foreign Student by Labro, Philippe
    Philippe Labro

    The Foreign Student

    A #1 bestseller in France, this is a nostalgic portrait of a French scholarship student's discovery of America during the academic year of 1954-1955. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be American, like any ordinary student, because I figured that was my...
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  • The Sacred Bridge: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Hillerman, Anne
    Anne Hillerman

    The Sacred Bridge: A Mystery 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"A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony."--Booklist An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications...
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  • In the Red by Shapiro, Elena Mauli
    Elena Mauli Shapiro

    In the Red

    A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad. When Irina -- Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her-arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man...
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  • The Kingdoms of Savannah by Green, George Dawes
    George Dawes Green

    The Kingdoms of Savannah

    Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story...
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  • Aerogrammes: And Other Stories by James, Tania
    Tania James

    Aerogrammes: And Other Stories

    From the acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns, a bravura collection of short stories--set, by turns, in London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest--that captures the yearning and dislocation of young people around the world. - "Funny, deeply tender, and each-and-every-one memorable." --Nathan Englander,...
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  • Half Life by Farooki, Roopa
    Roopa Farooki

    Half Life

    From the author of Corner Shop and Bitter Sweets comes a luminous new novel about one woman's journey back home - to a past she once wanted only to forget. It's time to stop fighting, and go home. Those were the words, written by...
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  • Stevo Finds His Destiny by Gard, Rosemary Babich
    Rosemary Babich Gard

    Stevo Finds His Destiny

    New Orleans - 1917Stevo Markovich is a successful hotelier surrounded by friends and family who have formed a tight-knit community. This includes the Croatian restaurant across the street, Little Zagreb, owned by his best friend, Tomo.The world around them, like their personal lives, is...
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  • The Waiting Room by Kaminsky, Leah
    Leah Kaminsky

    The Waiting Room

    "The Waiting Room is both haunted, and haunting."--Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MarchThe Waiting Room unfolds over the course of a single, life-changing day, but the story it tells spans five decades, three continents, and one family's compelling history of love, war, and...
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  • The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Buoro, Stephen
    Stephen Buoro

    The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

    The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes FinalistLonglisted for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary PrizeNamed a Best of the Year Book by NPRCrackling with energy and intelligence, this debut is the "smart, subversive, funny, heartbreaking" (Kamila Shamsie) story of an exceptional teenager coming of age...
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  • Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: Stories and Essays from Japan's Most Famous Foreign Observer by Hearn, Lafcadio
    Lafcadio Hearn

    Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: Stories and Essays from Japan's Most Famous Foreign Observer

    "The Japanese people are more mysterious than I imagined through Hearn's books." --Albert Einstein Lafcadio Hearn is the most significant early interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture for the West--a man who traveled to Japan when he was thirty-nine, and never left. Lafcadio Hearn's...
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  • Farewell, Shanghai by Wagenstein, Angel
    Angel Wagenstein

    Farewell, Shanghai

    Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice,...
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  • Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle by Vega Yunque, Edgardo
    Edgardo Vega Yunque

    Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle

    From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York CityFailed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on...
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  • Love Marriage by Ali, Monica
    Monica Ali

    Love Marriage

    Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker! "Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose--they're all here in this romp of a book." --Oprah Daily A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text...
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  • Dangerous Love by Okri, Ben
    Ben Okri

    Dangerous Love

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past. An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri's most accessible and most disarming...
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  • A Different View of Murder by Moulton, C. D.
    C. D. Moulton

    A Different View of Murder

    Mountains, Mists, Myths, and MurderClintonito Faraday Abrego, called Nito, Son of the famous Clint Faraday, head of Criminal Investigations (a silly title on the comarca Ngobe Bugle), Rep. de Panamá, is called by Moises Castillo Smith, chief of the Quebrada Tula area, to investigate...
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  • In the Belly of the Congo by Ndala, Blaise
    Blaise Ndala

    In the Belly of the Congo

    A Brittle Paper Notable African Book of 2023 A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World's Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner...
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  • Loving the Sisters by Haynes, Pamela R.
    Pamela R. Haynes

    Loving the Sisters

    Part 2 of the story continues...Patti, Charmaine and Rose form an alliance in Jamaica and agree to support each other when they return to the UK. But with warnings from celestial beings and Veronica dreaming about 'fish', are the women able to bring their...
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  • Weighty Deadly Questions by Moulton, C. D.
    C. D. Moulton

    Weighty Deadly Questions

    Three novellas from the Moga Me Dende? worksDeath Was Natural __ Murder __Accident __Suicide __(other) __To instigate an investigation, it must first be determined if there is reason for investigation.It is sometimes not easy to make a determination.Er, in what way is there "other"?Dead...
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  • Open Heart by Lindo, Elvira
    Elvira Lindo

    Open Heart

    Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War. In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells...
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  • The Journey of Karoline Olsen by Hanigan Kotz, Ann
    Ann Hanigan Kotz

    The Journey of Karoline Olsen

    When her husband, Kristoffer, dies from a burst appendix in Iowa in 1905, middle-aged Karoline Olsen, mother of six, must make the 145-mile trip from Cedar Falls to Soldier by horse-drawn wagon to bring his body home. With the corpse on fast-melting ice, Karoline...
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  • The Last Days of Terranova by Rivas, Manuel
    Manuel Rivas

    The Last Days of Terranova

    A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life "Rivas is a master... His pages bloom like flowers, swerving in unpredictable arcs toward a light-source that is constantly...
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  • Lanta: Song of the Sea by Egan, Fergus P.
    Fergus P. Egan

    Lanta: Song of the Sea

    Kevin Doherty suffers from enochlophobia - fear of public places. He finds and befriends a lost girl, a survivor of a storm at sea, whom he names 'Lanta'. The ensuing relationship is mutually beneficial to the reclusive man and the foundling. They resolve to...
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  • The Dream Builders by Mukherjee, Oindrila
    Oindrila Mukherjee

    The Dream Builders

    After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the...
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  • Folk Tales of the Caribbean: How the Red Ants got their Color by Alvin Husbands, Images
    Images Alvin Husbands

    Folk Tales of the Caribbean: How the Red Ants got their Color

    Did you ever wonder why the sky is blue and grapes are green? Take a trip back to the Caribbean days of old when things were still simple, and people knew the answers to big questions like How did Red Ants get their Color?...
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  • Starting Over Far Away by Myers, Linda B.
    Linda B. Myers

    Starting Over Far Away

    1921. THE ALASKA TERRITORYNurse Leona Herkimer arrives in the Tlingit village of Hoonah to help the tribe through frontier plagues and wilderness calamities. Together, she and teacher Ivy Bolton face misfortunes, threats to their patients and students, dangerous wildlife, and the frailties of loving...
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  • The Story of My Teeth by Luiselli, Valeria
    Valeria Luiselli

    The Story of My Teeth

    "Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and M疵quez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated...
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  • Deception: A Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery by Holland, Timothy
    Timothy Holland

    Deception: A Sidney Lake Lowcountry Mystery

    When Sidney Lake learned the author's copy of Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall had been stolen, he firmly believed he would never see it again, much less hold it in his hands. But there it was. In the hands of an...
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