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Better Luck Next Time
by Julia Claiborne Johnson
A follow-up to the best-selling Be Frank with Me follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended by a shy woman and a thrice-divorced pilot.
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People Like Her
by Ellery Lloyd
A successful media influencer’s morally questionable relationship with the truth exposes deep psychological cracks in her marriage at the same time her family is targeted by a violently obsessed fan.
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The Rib King
by Ladee Hubbard
Exploited by the white family that took him in as a servant 15 years earlier, a Black orphan becomes tragically enraged by how his employers mindlessly profit from the talents of a hired black cook.
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The Yellow Wife
by Sadeqa Johnson
Born on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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The Prophets
by Robert Jones
"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence."
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Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
An unambitious college graduate accepts a job at Sumwun, the hottest NYC startup, and reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman, and begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force.
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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
by Peter Ho Davies
A family grapples with the decision to terminate a pregnancy after receiving catastrophic test results and must deal with questions that reverberate down the years, in a new novel from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl.
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Hades, Argentina
by Daniel Loedel
A medical student in Buenos Aires must decide how far he’s willing to go for his childhood crush and the group of insurgents she’s joined as more and more people like her are disappeared by an oppressive military junta.
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
by Mariana Enriquez
Written against a backdrop of the sociopolitical dynamics of contemporary Argentina, a collection by the author of Things We Lost in the Fire follows the experiences of sophisticated and macabre protagonists, from obsessed fangirls to a morally challenged neighborhood.
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