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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
As China's civil war ravages and engulfs their once-privileged lives, four resourceful daughters defy tradition and flee their home as the Communist army closes in, charting a path across a war-torn nation to independence in Taiwan.
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Swift River
by Essie Chambers
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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Annie bot
by Sierra Greer
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
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The coin
by Yasmin Zaher
Teaching at a school for underprivileged boys in New York, a young Palestinian woman, whose eccentric methods cross boundaries, gets caught up in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags, and to gain control over her body and mind, becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness and self-image, while drawing her students into her obsessions.
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How to end a love story
by Yulin Kuang
A best-selling author with writer's block heads to L.A. for the film adaptation of her book where she must collaborate with a screenwriter who was involved in the tragic accident that bound them together 13 years prior. Original.
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How to solve your own murder
by Kristen Perrin
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer"
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Fire exit
by Morgan Talty
Consumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption. as he searches for redemption.
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
An 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 to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Housemates
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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Honey
by Isabel Banta
A small-town New Jersey teen is invited to become part of a new 1990s girl group where she inadvertently comes between one of her bandmates and her superstar boy-band boyfriend, threatening her new life and career. 50,000 first printing.
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The ministry of time
by Kaliane Bradley
To establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time, a“bridge” who lives with, assists and monitors the expat known as“1847” or Commander Graham Gore, falls fervently in love, with consequences she never could've imagined—ones that could change the future.
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God bless you, Otis Spunkmeyer
by Joseph Earl Thomas
An ex-Army grad student, Joseph, navigates PTSD, single fatherhood and strained family ties while confronting the complexities of race, love, and justice in modern Philadelphia, in the new novel by the author of Sink. 50,000 first printing.
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Ours
by Phillip B. Williams
Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours, but, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage.
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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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The storm we made
by Vanessa Chan
In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves.
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The husbands
by Holly Gramazio
When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you've taken the right path?
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Hombrecito
by Santiago Jose Sanchez
Wracked by his mother's abandonment and navigating his queer identity, a Colombian-American man seeks healing in New York and Colombia, confronting his father and past to discover his mother's hidden truths and the true definition of home.
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