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  • SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER
    SWIMMING BACK TO TROUT RIVER
    LINDA RUI FENG
    A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful ...
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  • PORTRAIT OF A THIEF
    PORTRAIT OF A THIEF
    GRACE D. LI
    "The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning."—New York Times Book ReviewOcean's Ele...
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  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    "Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions."--Paul Metcalf A manual for cleaning women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancho...
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  • OUTLAWED
    OUTLAWED
    NORTH, ANNA
    A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I beca...
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  • BIBLIOLEPSY
    BIBLIOLEPSY
    GINA APOSTOL
    Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorshipGina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world ...
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    Q. 270

  • LESSONS
    LESSONS
    IAN MCEWAN
    From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it.When the world is still counting ...
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  • NIGHTS OF PLAGUE
    NIGHTS OF PLAGUE
    ORHAN PAMUK
    A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic--a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria--the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire--located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. H...
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  • THE SENTENCE
    THE SENTENCE
    LOUISE ERDRICH
    "Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four StarsIn this New York Times bestselling novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning auth...
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  • THE GIFT OF RAIN
    THE GIFT OF RAIN
    TWAN, ENG TAN
    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEPenang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such...
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  • FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES
    FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES
    LEE, MIN JIN
    In this "mesmerizing" novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, the Korean-American daughter of first-generation immigrants strives to join Manhattan's inner circle (USA Today). Meet Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants immersed in a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she can't afford. Casey is eager to make it on her own, away...
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  • THE POWER OF THE DOG
    THE POWER OF THE DOG
    SAVAGE, THOMAS
    Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brot...
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  • TENDERNESS
    TENDERNESS
    ALISON MACLEOD
    "Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth Gilbert For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the gl...
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    Q. 300

  • OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
    OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
    GARY SHTEYNGART
    Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotionally rich novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls "one of his generation's most original and exhilarating writers"Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and...
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  • BEHELD
    BEHELD
    NESBIT, TARASHEA
    From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger's arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts-and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of reli...
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  • DISAPPEARING ACT
    DISAPPEARING ACT
    ROBERT SHEEHAN
    Robert Sheehan is one of Ireland's brightest stars, both at home and abroad. Best known for his roles in Love/Hate and The Umbrella Academy, in his debut collection of short stories, Sheehan disappears into characters and experiences the challenges and the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.Surreal, intelligent, dark, and provocative, th...
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  • TALES FROM THE CAFE
    TALES FROM THE CAFE
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to tr...
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  • GOOD NEIGHBORS
    GOOD NEIGHBORS
    SARAH LANGAN
    Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this “wickedly funny, unnerving puzzle box of a novel” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will) about the downward spiral of a Long Island community after a tragedy exposes its residents’ depths of deception.Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban Long Island...
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    Q. 180

  • ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS
    ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS
    ILANA MASAD
    "A queer tour-de-force . . . Compelling and astonishing."–Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Unfolding over the course of nine days, and written with enormous heart, All My Mother's Lovers is a meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties, grief, and generational divides, as well as a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity. After Ma...
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  • BRING UP THE BODIES
    BRING UP THE BODIES
    HILARY MANTEL
    WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and ...
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  • THE HENNA ARTIST
    THE HENNA ARTIST
    ALKA JOSHI
    A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."--Reese WitherspoonVivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel.Escaping from an ...
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  • THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB
    THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB
    KIKUKO TSUMURA
    "[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" NPR "A revelation."—Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig--watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing co...
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  • MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    MANHATTAN TRANSFER
    DOS PASSOS, JOHN
    A masterpiece of modernist fiction that creates a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multi-faceted New York CityIn a series of overlapping stories, John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a narrative collage that brings the complexity of the urban environment to life. From Wall Street to the waterfront, from the Bowery...
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  • MY POLICEMAN
    MY POLICEMAN
    BETHAN ROBERTS
    u003cbu003eSoon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love.u003c/bu003e u003cpu003eIt is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten--determined her love alone will be enoug...
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  • HAMNET
    HAMNET
    O'FARRELL, MAGGIE
    "A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a ...
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  • OCCUPATION
    OCCUPATION
    JULIÁN FUKS
    "This is one beautiful book."--Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sickness, and his wife's pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds ...
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  • THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (TELEVISION TIE-IN EDITION)
    THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (TELEVISION TIE-IN EDITION)
    CHRIS BOHJALIAN
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now an acclaimed HBO Max series starring Kaley Cuoco and Rosie Perez • A powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happenedCassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline ...
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  • INTERIOR CHINATOWN
    INTERIOR CHINATOWN
    CHARLES YU
    From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and...
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  • BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    *NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER**OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time.Over...
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  • GIRLS AGAINST GOD
    GIRLS AGAINST GOD
    JENNY HVAL
    A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-trave...
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  • FINAL OPTION
    FINAL OPTION
    CLIVE CUSSLER / BOYD MORRISON
    In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series.When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew ...
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