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Multicultural Authors April-May 2025 |
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Dream Count : a Novel
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Explores the lives of four Nigerian women, each grappling with love, loss and the complexities of modern life, as they face personal growth, societal expectations and the pursuit of happiness, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Americanah.
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My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
by Isabel Allende
In 1800s San Francisco, young writer Emilia, daughter of an Irish nun and a Chilean aristocrat, journeys to South America with talented reporter Eric to uncover the truth about her father—and herself.
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Red Clay
by Charles B. Fancher
An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.
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Big Chief
by Jon Hickey
Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe's Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the eve of Mack's reelection, their tenuous grip on power is threatened by a nationally known activist and politician, Gloria Hawkins, and her young aide, Layla Beck, none other than Mack's estranged sister and Mitch's former love. In their struggle for control over Passage Rouge, the campaigns resort to bare-knuckle political gamesmanship, testing the limits of how far they will go-and what they will sacrifice-to win it all.
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Awake in the Floating City
by Susanna Kwan
In a flooded city, grieving artist Bo is drawn back to life by a prickly elderly neighbor, Mia, whose stories and memories inspire her to find purpose in documenting their disappearing world and reclaiming her art before it's lost forever.
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Guatemalan Rhapsody : Stories
by Jared Lemus
A collection of stories where characters each face pivotal choices that test their loyalties including orphaned brothers posing as highway robbers, a tattoo artist competing for love and a self-styled Don Juan caught in a film crew's upheaval.
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Shanghailanders
by Juli Min
Starting in 2040 and going backwards to 2014, this brilliantly constructed exploration of marriage, relationships and the layered experience of time, follows the Yangs, a cosmopolitan Shanghai family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter and through the eyes of those closest to them.
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Dixon, Descending : a Novel
by Karen Outen
A former Olympic-level runner working as a school psychologist abandons his family and students to join his brother on a quest to be the first black American men to summit Mount Everest, resulting in a tragedy that shatters his life.
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Come and Get It : a Novel
by Kiley Reid
A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
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Skin & Bones : a Novel
by Renee Watson
When a confession on her wedding day shifts her world, 40-year-old Lena, trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself, questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship and motherhood while working tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses.
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The House of Broken Bricks : a Novel
by Fiona Williams
A Londoner transported from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, Tess, as she and her husband settle in, finds the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging.
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Time of the Child
by Niall Williams
In the Advent season of 1962, Doctor Jack Troy and his daughter Ronnie, long isolated from their small Irish town of Faha, find their lives and their understanding of family and community transformed when a baby is unexpectedly left in their care.
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The Riveter : a Novel
by Jack Wang
Follows Josiah Chang, a Chinese Canadian who, barred from military service, works in a shipyard and falls in love with Poppy; as their romance blossoms, Josiah seeks to prove his worth to her family and himself, leading him to enlist in Toronto amid the changing dynamics of wartime Canada.
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