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Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime
By Leonie SwannAgnes and the other residents of Duck End retreat to a coastal hotel after a series of murders in the hamlet. Shortly after she arrives, Agnes sees something unsettling from the terrace: two figures walk away along the cliffs... but only one returns.
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Any Duke in a Storm
By Amalie HowardInternational spy Lady Lisbeth Medford is determined to infiltrate a notorious smuggling ring in the West Indies until her identity is compromised, and she must flee in this fourth novel of the series that began with The Princess Stakes.
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Banal Nightmare
By Halle ButlerAn acerbic portrait of a Midwestern college town and the thirtysomethings attempting to navigate life there. (Oh, and they hate each other.)
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The Black Utopians
By Aaron RobertsonIn this wide-ranging history, Robertson reflects on a diverse array of Black utopian visions, from the Reconstruction era through the countercultural fervor of the 1960s and 1970s and into the present day. Full title: The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land.
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Bluff
By Danez SmithThis is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence.
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Book of Kin
By Darius Atefat-PeckhamThis debut poetry collection follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother.
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Bride
By Ali HazelwoodMisery Lark, daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, must leave her life of anonymity among the humans and uphold a historic alliance with the Weres by marrying their Alpha, Lowe Moreland.
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Brittle Joints
By Maria SweeneyMaria Sweeney's colorful and meditative memoir reflects on how she fought to build a life of dignity, fulfillment, and perseverance for herself throughout the difficulties brought by her degenerative disease and often callous treatment from doctors and social services.
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Challenger
By Adam HigginbothamBased on fascinating new archival research and deep reporting, this gripping and riveting narrative provides the definitive story of the 1986 Challenger disaster and how it led to America changing its view of itself. Full title: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.
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The Coin
By Yasmin ZaherOur heroine is a wealthy Palestinian woman who, in an attempt to regain control of her life, becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions.
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A Daughter of Fair Verona
By Christina DoddThe eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride. But their latest match isn’t so easy to palm off...
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
By P. Djèlí ClarkEveen the Eviscerator is skilled and her guild is strong. When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
By Jonathan BlitzerBlitzer examines the political contexts in Central American countries including El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have contributed to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border—as told through the stories of migrants. Full title: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis.
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The Ex Vows
By Jessica JoyceLiving by her lists, especially the one about her ex, Eli Mora, Georgia Woodward must work with him when they have to pull off the perfect wedding for their mutual best friend, and with their chemistry as hot as ever, she’s tempted to break her rules.
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The Familiar
By Leigh BardugoLuzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress discovers she is hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.
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Forest of Noise
By Mosab Abu TohaA candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.
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Gaslight
By Jonathan MingleIt's Dominion Energy versus the people of Virginia in this David-and-Goliath tale of natural gas and climate chaos. The fight over the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline began in 2014 and went all the way to the Supreme Court. This is its suspenseful record. Full title: Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future.
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Glorious Exploits
By Ferdia LennonAn odd and funny story of two poetry-loving potters in 412 BCE, imprisoned on Sicily after the Peloponnesian War and attempting to stage a full-blown production of Medea.
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The God of the Woods
By Liz Moore1975: A camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. But Barbara isn’t just any 13-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents.
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Gretel and the Great War
By Adam Erlich SachsA novel in 26 alphabetically arranged chapters set in the dark side of early 20th-century Vienna.
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Horror Movie
By Paul TremblayIn 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick called... Horror Movie. Though only three scenes were ever released, it has a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big-budget reboot.
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Hum
By Helen PhillipsThis dystopian thriller is the story of a woman who loses her job to artificial intelligence and, in a bid to secure her family's future, undergoes an experimental procedure that renders her undetectable to surveillance.
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I Was Working
By Ariel YelenA remarkable book of poems that mixes humor about the absurdities of office life with moments of Zen-like wisdom.
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If Only
By Vigdis HjorthTranslated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund | A love affair consumes a Norwegian woman's life as she careens between love and hate for a man she knows isn't "worth the sacrifice."
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
By Stuart TurtonThe world was destroyed by a fog, killing anyone it touched. On the island, though, it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in harmony. Until, that is, one of the scientists is found stabbed to death.
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Lesser Ruins
By Mark HaberBereft after the death of his wife, a retired professor has resumed his life's work—a book that will stand as a towering cathedral to Michel de Montaigne, reframing the inventor of the essay for the modern age.
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The Light Eaters
By Zoë SchlangerIt takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close. Full title: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth.
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Martyr!
By Kaveh AkbarAn alcoholic, addict, and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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The Mercy of Gods
By James S. A. CoreyWhen the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their home world, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.
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My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
By Sarah MossMoss, an acclaimed and stylish novelist, trains her powerful gaze on herself in this poetic memoir of girlhood, second-wave feminism, anorexia, literature, and more.
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Navola
By Paolo BacigalupiDavico di Regulai must demonstrate his mastery of Navolese diplomacy as he prepares to take the reins of power from his father in this sweeping literary historical fantasy.
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
By Annie JacobsenWhat happens in the minutes following a nuclear missile launch is the terrifyingly urgent subject of Annie Jacobsen's book. Essential reading.
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Rare Flavours
By Ram VArt by Filipe Andrade | Young filmmaker Mo is approached by the zealous gourmand Rubin Baksh with an offer to make a documentary. But Rubin has a dark secret, and his tastes betray his insatiable nature.
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Rat City
By Jon Adams and Edmund RamsdenJohn B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health, studied the effects of overcrowding on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat’s every need was met—except space. The results were cataclysmic. Full title: Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun.
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Rejection
By Tony TulathimutteThese seven interconnected stories move seamlessly between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
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Sacrificial Animals
By Kailee PedersenInspired by the author's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China, in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology
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Sirens of the City
By Joanne StarerArt by Khary Randolph | Grab your steel-toed boots, favorite fishnets, and worn leather jacket as we travel the mean streets of 80s New York.
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Sketchy, Vol. 1
By MakihirochiTranslated from the Japanese by Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley | Ako approaches her thirties awkwardly. Suddenly, something emerges in her life that gets her to reexamine her world and her place in it: skateboarding. She dives headfirst into what feels like a new culture and finds community.
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Small Rain
By Garth GreenwellA poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body.
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Smoke Kings
By Jahmal MayfieldAfter his little cousin is murdered, young Black political activist Nate Evers, along with three grief-stricken friends, kidnaps descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, forcing them to pay reparations to a community fund, until he confronts the wrong man.
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Sons of Salt
By Yaccaira SalvatierraIn this collection of poems, Yaccaira Salvatierra explores the duality of personal and political landscapes as well as legacies of violence within Mexican-American communities.
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Suggested in the Stars
By Yōko TawadaTranslated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani | Hiruko—who hails from the now vanished archipelago "somewhere between China and Polynesia"—and her companions search in vain for someone who speaks her native language.
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A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
By Mariana EnriquezTranslated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell | Twelve unsettling stories where ordinary people living in Argentina, particularly women, must confront terrifying and surreal encounters with the supernatural.
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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
By Alexis Pauline GumbsGumbs's new biography of Audre Lorde, a self-proclaimed "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," draws on a huge wealth of archival research to analyze her complex poetry as well as her more famous essays and present a complete picture of the artist and her philosophy.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By Yanis VaroufakisBig tech has replaced capitalism’s twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism...
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There's Always This Year
By Hanif AbdurraqibA lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models—expertly interwoven by Abdurraqib with memoir.
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Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
By Taiyō MatsumotoTranslated from the Japanese by Michael Arias | Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly decides to retire after 30 years of editing at his publishing company. Post-retirement, he decides to fulfill his goal of publishing the one manga that got away: his magnum opus.
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Triple Sec
By TJ AlexanderA jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this polyamorous rom-com, set in the glamorous world of high-end cocktail bars.
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You Dreamed of Empires
By Álvaro EnrigueTranslated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer | What really went down when Hernán Cortés met Moctezuma? Definitely not what happens in Enrigue's brilliant gonzo account of the last days of the Aztec empire.
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You Should Be So Lucky
By Cat SebastianIt's the 1960 baseball season. Ordered by the team's owner to give a bunch of interviews to reporter Mark Bailey, shortstop Eddie O'Leary finds himself slowly giving in to the attraction between them—and when it's just them against the world, they must decide if that's enough.