LibraryAware Multicultural Authors Oct-Nov 2025

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A Bomb Placed Close To the Heart : a Novel
by Nishant Batsha

Profound, immersive, tenderly written, and with finely wrought characters drawn from the forgotten archives of American history, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is an extraordinary story of a marriage caught at the intersection of radical politics and everyday life.

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The Possession of Alba Diaz
by Isabel Canas

In 1765, as plague ravages Zacatecas, Alba seeks refuge in her fiancé's remote mining estate but soon spirals into convulsions and darkness, forcing her into a dangerous alliance with his cousin Elías as demonic forces, buried secrets, and forbidden desire close in.

House of Monstrous Women
by Daphne Fama

In 1986 Philippines, Josephine accepts an invitation to a childhood friend's eerie, labyrinthine house to play a game that promises her heart's desire, only to find herself trapped in a deadly contest where winning may cost her blood.

Salt Bones : a Novel
by Jennifer Givhan

Three women in one twisted family race for answers in a mystery set in the Mexicali borderlands.

Theft
by Abdulrazak Gurnah

In early 21st-century Tanzania, Karim, Fauzia and Badar navigate ambition, escape, and uncertainty as their lives intertwine amidst global changes that bring both opportunities and challenges, reshaping their understanding of destiny and self-determination.

What Will People Think? : a Novel
by Sara Hamdan

Mia's Almas' secret comedy career, forbidden office crush and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame.

Slanting Towards the Sea : a Novel
by Lidija Hilje

A decade after divorcing Vlaho, Ivona returns to her Croatian hometown to care for her ailing father, finding unexpected solace in his new family, but when a new man enters her life, the fragile balance between past and present is suddenly upended.

Kakigori Summer
by Emily Itami

When music idol Ai is embroiled in scandal, her sisters, ambitious Rei and single mother Kiki, pause their lives and spend the summer with Ai in their childhood home on the Japanese coast so they can rescue their baby sister.

The Influencers : a Novel
by Anna-Marie McLemore

When influencer matriarch May Iverson's husband is murdered and her mansion burned down, her five estranged daughters, each grappling with the fallout of their commodified childhoods, face mounting suspicions, public scrutiny and buried family secrets.

My Documents : a Novel
by Kevin Nguyen

Attacks create a panic prompting the American government to force Vietnamese Americans into internment camps, and Jen and Duncan Nguyen are held with their mother at Camp Tacoma while cousins Ursula and Alvin are exempted—Ursula reports on detention's horrors though messages from Jen.

Necessary Fiction
by Eloghosa Osunde

Across the dynamic city of Lagos, Nigeria, characters seek out love for self and chosen partners, even risking ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family and friends, and they grapple with desire, fear, time, death and God, forming and breaking unexpected connections.

An Oral History of Atlantis : Stories
by Ed Park

A story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-finalist for Same Bed Different Dreams, explores identity, memory and the absurdity of modern life through tales that blur reality revealing the strange beauty and fleeting nature of art, youth and everyday existence.

Long Distance : Stories
by Aysegül Savas

The author's shrewd encapsulations of contemporary life often center on characters displaced more by choice than circumstance, characters both determined to install themselves in new lives and preoccupied with the people they've left behind.

When Javi Dumped Mari : a Novel
by Mia Sosa

On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Baez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn't approve of. Now, ten years later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he's secretly pined for since sophomore year, is engaged, and Javi didn't even get the chance to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry. Mari, a successful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, is no longer seeking Javi's dating advice or waiting for him to declare his love for her. Instead, Mari's made a different pact. With herself. And to succeed, she's vowing to build a future with someone else. With his life and theater career finally on track, Javi's ready to confess his feelings. Except Mari's changed the script and moved on without him. Javi has just eight weeks to convince Mari this marriage is a flop. If that means he needs to ruffle some feathers to help Mari avert a disaster, well, he's up for the challenge. After all, isn't that what best friends are for?

Girl, 1983
by Linn Ullmann

In a quest to reconcile her past and present, a woman revisits her 16-year-old self lost in 1983 Paris, navigating memory and oblivion across Oslo, New York, and Paris, to unearth a long-guarded secret of desire and shame.

When Sleeping Women Wake : a Novel
by Emma Pei Yin

Amidst the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, three women—Mingzhu, Qiang, and Biyu—must navigate their roles in a war-torn world, balancing survival, resistance, and their bond as their paths diverge, with the hope of reuniting in the face of relentless danger.

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