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Under the RadarJune 2024
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All Things Seen and Unseen
by R. J. Mcdaniel
All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship's dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family's empty summer mansion on a gulf island. Surrounded by dense forest and ocean, in the increasingly oppressive heat of a 2010s summer, Alex must try to survive as an outsider in a remote, insular community; to navigate the awkward, unexpected beginnings of a possible new romance; and to live through the trauma she has repressed to survive, even as the memories -- and a series of increasingly unnerving events -- threaten to pull her back under the surface.
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Bad habit : a novel
by Alana Portero
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal. 75,000 first printing.
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Cinema love : a novel
by Jiaming Tang
After emigrating to New York City's Chinatown Old Second and Bao Mei reminisce about their secret past in a rural Chinese cinema that taught them to navigate forbidden love, societal pressures and an uncertain future.
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Housemates : a novel
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
After becoming housemates in Philadelphia, two aspiring artists, Leah and Bernie, embark on a three-week road trip across America, documenting the heart of the nation through words and photographs while facing their own artistic and romantic destinies.
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In tongues
by Thomas Grattan
In 2001, an ambitious, young gay man navigates the Manhattan art world as a dogwalker and unravels the dark secrets of a powerful couple while searching for his own place in the world. 30,000 first printing.
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Pride and joy : a novel
by Louisa Onomâe
Three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grapples with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back.
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Sweetness in the skin : a novel
by Ishi Robinson
To free herself from her dysfunctional family in Kingston, Jamaica, and join her beloved aunt in Paris, 13-year-old Pumkin Patterson turns her passion for baking into a way to raise money for her French exam, but when word gets out, she stands to lose everything she's worked so hard for.
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Their divine fires : a novel
by Wendy Chen
Drawing on the lives of her great-grandmother and her great-uncle, both of whom fought on the side of the Communists, as well as her mother's experiences during the Cultural Revolution, this novel tells the love stories of three generations of Chinese woman across 100 years of revolutions, both political and personal.
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The things we didn't know
by Elba Iris Pâerez
In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
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Weird black girls : stories
by Elwin Cotman
This irresistibly unnerving collection of seven character-driven stories, written to challenge, incite and entertain, reveals truths about the human experience—friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror and fantasy. Original.
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