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• All That's Left Unsaid

  a Novel

  Lien, Tracey,

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  For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chain-gang All-stars

  a Novel

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,

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  Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive, highly praised debut novel, a National Book Award finalist for 2023.

• Dirtbag, Massachusetts

  a Confessional

  Fitzgerald, Isaac,

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  Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told.

• The Hero of This Book

  a Novel

  McCracken, Elizabeth,

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  A taut, groundbreaking, and highly acclaimed novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother--and about the very nature of writing, memory, and art.

• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

  Yong, Ed,

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  A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.

• In the Time of Our History

  Pari, Susanne,

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  Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, acclaimed author Susanne Pari weaves a beautifully crafted story of mothers and daughters, secrets and lies, and defying expectations--even when those choices come with an irrevocable cost.

• The Power of Fun

  How to Feel Alive Again

  Price, Catherine, 1978-

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  If you're not having fun, you're not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being--and shows us how to have more of it.

• A Quiet Life

  a Novel

  Joella, Ethan,

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  Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief.

• The Snow Hare

  Lichtarowicz, Paula,

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  In this "riveting, heartfelt" novel of love and consequences, a woman dreams of becoming a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love—and a fateful choice.

• Somewhere Sisters

  a Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

  Hayasaki, Erika,

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  An incredible, deeply reported story of identical twins Isabella and Hà, born in Viêt Nam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other's existence until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.