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Kyla Zhao
Heirs of Infamy

Two rivals from opposing gangs grow dangerously close in this dazzling YA debut set in 1940s San Francisco Chinatown.Beneath the neon glare of postwar San Francisco, Chinatown is ruled by two rival crime …

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Kathy George
The Scent of Oranges: The Stunning Literary Retelling of the Beloved Classic Oliver Twist from a Brilliant Australian Author.

A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good …

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Chimeka Garricks
A Broken People's Playlist

"A dozen interlinked, music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where Garricks was raised... Each songlike story feels like a breakout hit encapsulating the brokenness and the beauty in life’s…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby and Other Stories

Love, ambition, and wealth take center stage in this collection of classic stories from the Jazz Age.Often described as the "Great American Novel," F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the …

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Stacy S Jensen,
Before I Lived Here

Journey backward in time through all the layers of history that led up to your neighborhood's existence.The building you live in has probably been around longer than you, so you may think it's been there …

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Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters

These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's cha…

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Kosoko Jackson
The Macabre

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy ab…

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Julia Malye
Pelican Girls

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides…

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Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks

A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germa…

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Emily Bronte
Emerald Fennell Presents: Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell presents Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece of unbridled passion, obsession, and revenge.Set against the desolate beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the all-consuming love be…

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Sonora Jha
Intemperance

In this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter---winner of the Washington State Book Award---a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritual,…

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Aram Mrjoian
Waterline

"A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read---intense, moving, and unforge…

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Aram Mrjoian
Waterline

"A gripping journey through time, Mrjoian brings readers deep into the heart of the Armenian Genocide and its ripples across generations. . . . Waterline is a must-read---intense, moving, and unforge…

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Doris Webster, Mary Alden Hopkins
Consider the Consequences

You decide what the characters do--and who they end up with--in this interactive 1930s romantic time capsule that paved the way for Choose Your Own Adventure!43 HAPPILY (N)EVER AFTERS: Play as a party gam…

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Jane Helen Findlater
The Green Graves of Balgowrie

Set in the 18th century, sisters Henrietta and Lucie live with their widowed mother in an isolated mansion in Balgowrie, Scotland. Inexperienced in life and love, the two sheltered sisters become separate…

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Shakirah Bourne
Here Lies a Ghost

India Hill Brown meets Sharon Draper in a spooky, poignant, tour-de-force from Shakirah Bourne -- an ode to Black Boy friendships, the richness of Caribbean history, and the power that comes from reclaimi…

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Diane Richards
Ella

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fit…

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Sherri L Smith
Candace, the Universe, and Everything

A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker.A School Library Journal and Chicago Public Library Best B…

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Caroline Lea
Love, Sex, and Frankenstein

An evocative, haunting retelling of the summer that should have broken Mary Shelley, but instead inspired her to write her masterpiece.A New York Times Book ReviewEditor's ChoiceVilla Diodati, Lake Geneva…

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Brit Bennett,
Adventures with Claudie Paperback

Follow along for more of Claudie's story as she goes to Georgia to learn the truth about her family. This poignant and powerful sequel by New York Times bestselling author, Brit Bennett, is set in the Har…

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