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• The Book of Fire

  a Novel

  Lefteri, Christy, 1980-

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  "Musician Irini lives in an ancient Greek forest with artist husband Tasso and their daughter, and all's well until a land speculator starts a small fire meant to clear a plot for building that instead sets the whole forest ablaze."

• Cold Victory

  a Novel

  Marlantes, Karl,

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  "Helsinki 1947. A cross-country ski race between former soldiers snowballs into a Cold War crisis, but the real high-stakes diplomacy occurs between the competitors' wives."

• The Collected Regrets of Clover

  Brammer, Mikki,

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  "A big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Midnight Library."

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  "From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood."

• Sociopath

  a Memoir

  Gagne, Patric,

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  "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir of the author's struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder."

• Solito

  a Memoir

  Zamora, Javier,

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  [The 2026 Whatcom READS selection!] "A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this gripping memoir of bravery, hope, and finding family."

• Thunder Song

  Essays

  LaPointe, Sasha taqʷšəblu,

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  "The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today."

• We Must Not Think of Ourselves

  a Novel

  Grodstein, Lauren,

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  "A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by those determined to have their stories survive World War II."

• The Wives

  a Memoir

  Gorrindo, Simone,

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  "This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman's experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job."

• Yellowface

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  "White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences. Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel."

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