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Book SynopsisFrom Tropical Fling to Forever by Nina Singh A temptation she should resist... An offer she can't refuse

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Book SynopsisA convenient marriageCould save them bothBattle-weary Viking Lord Hafual plans to tend his lands, raise his son and recover from the traumatic death of his wife. So nobody is more surprised than him when his neighbour, Lady Elene, publicly announces their intention to wed! Learning the danger Elene faces if he refuses stirs feelings of protectiveness, and a longing in Hafual he'd long-since buried. So, for better or worse, he'll make Elene his bride

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Book SynopsisTaking a Chance on LoveSawyer Wallace, Editor-in-Chief of the financially strapped local paper, has been offered a deal to save it reveal the identity of his best blogger! But doing so will mean losing Riley Hudson, his oldest friend. Would revealing the truth destroy their chances at love? The sexy stranger Bailee Sanders invites back to her New Orleans hotel room makes her forget the relationship she just ended. She never imagines they'll meet againuntil Dr Ian Jackson shows up at her brother's wedding. Their chemistry's off the charts, but Bailee's wary of trusting another man. Can she and Ian find a way to embrace love on their own terms? Rafe Lawson and gorgeous senator's daughter Avery Richards are to tie the knot. Except the intrusion of the media jeopardises her Secret Service careerand their imminent wedding. But it's the unexpected return of Rafe's first love that could cost the tycoon everything.

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Book SynopsisResistingthe irresistible!Haunted by the loss of her family and beloved dog, doctor Sage devotes herself to saving animals in her remote clinic. She has no time for distractions! Particularly not a charismatic, arrogant TV horse whisperer from the Outback, who has been hired by an owner to help treat a troubled animal in her care. They disagree on sight. And yet, even when she''s forced to admit that Ethan is an excellent vet, Sage is determined to resist developing feelings for a man who's clearly afraid of loving again. He'll only break her heart when he leavesbut taking the risk is oh-so-temptingMr Grumpy, Ms Sunshinethe perfect family?Anna loves nursing childrenit's healing after having to give her own baby up for adoption. Her favourite patient is Jordan, an adorable boy who has Down's syndrome. Caring for him is rewardingespecially when she meets his handsome single dad, surgeon Eli! Since his ex-wife abandoned them, Eli's very protective of his son. But as he gets to know Anna h

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Book Synopsis'If you love cowboys and small-town drama, [] Lone Wolf in Lights is a must-read for you. [] Get ready to root for Willow and Eli as sparks fly!' Heat Magazine, Book of the Week spotlight 'Eli could easily become a lot of peoples favourite book boyfriend.' ????? Netgalley reviewer 'An adorable read' THE DAILY MIRROR A fake date with a cowboy. What could possibly go wrong? Everyone daydreams about a fresh startbut Willow Quinn is making it happen. She's left her life in Phoenix to open a bar in cowboy-country with her two best friends. Except who knew her plans would ruffle so many feathers? Enter former bull rider Eli Cole. She's drawn to the cowboy, even though he seems to have as many dark secrets as she does. And when she and her bar go viral for being interlopers, suddenly Willow's new life is on rocky ground. But Eli has the perfect solution a fake relationship to convince the town she really does fit in. But this won't protect her heart from the cowboy she can't resist Perfect for fans of: Cowboy 🤠 Small-town romance 🏡 Fake dating ?? Spice 🌶?

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Book SynopsisIn 1825 William Savage is an official in the East India Company, committed to the people of his remote district and British rule in India. During the course of his duties he witnesses a double murder and stumbles upon the society of the thuggee, a secret cult that has flourished in India for 200 years and murdered over a million people. When Savage discovers a mass grave, including the body of a recently killed British officer, his investigation leads him to infiltrate, while disguised, the cult. He learns their secrets but finds himself drawn to the ecstasy of ritual killing. Can his sense of honour prevail, can he destroy the thuggees?Trade ReviewHe organizes and controls the swift-moving, exciting narrative with the unobtrusive brilliance of a first-class military strategist. -- The ObserverSimply as gripping exotic tales, his books read splendidly still... but they deserve to be read also as a revelation to the young and a reminder to the old of a vanished world. -- The TabletThe story, which is as exciting as any I have read for a long time... Readable, vivid and spectacular. -- C.P. Snow * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through this story the author restores a past that has been erased by history and emphasizes the historical memory of what must never be repeated or forgotten." * Daejon Ilbo *"[An] exceptional novel… Soom captures the agonizing legacy of a dark chapter from the recent past." * Booklist *"The process of directly confronting the comfort women’s hellish experiences is truly painful. However, because the novel is not a product of the author’s imagination but in fact based on historical reality, we cannot turn our heads away. No, we must not." * Donga Ilbo *"Though it is fiction, Kim Soom’s novel is steeped in fact. One Left dignifies its subjects as an authentic memorial that makes an indelible mark on history." * Foreword Reviews *"It may seem cliché to state that a novel is necessary. But this one really is." * Asian Review of Books *"This is a painful, powerful literary indictment of the systemic subjugation of Korean comfortwomen, whose own #MeToo movement has yet to be fully reckoned with, decades after the fact." * Bookmonger *"This Korean novel dramatizes, with indelible force, the utter dehumanization of women confined to authoritarian patriarchal imprisonment." * The Arts Fuse *"[A] landmark — the first novel dedicated to depicting comfort women, a topic that invokes as much weariness as it does outrage among today’s public. Though a work of fiction, Kim Soom’s story is based on exhaustive research and testimonies given by actual comfort women...By rendering this topic in the form of a novel, Kim injects a new sense of emotional urgency in recognizing these very real and hauntingly painful experiences." * International Examiner *"[S]ynthesizes acute personal memories with painful history, straddling the line between fact and fiction. The result is a gut-wrenching narrative." * Korean Herald *"All credit then, to author, translators and publisher for bringing this important book to us." * London Korean Links *"In their even, experienced hands the translation avoids any temptation toward melodrama or obscenity, especially tricky and crucial given the raw, violent subject at hand... For English readers, one must note commensurate, masterful sensitivity to every word and nuance in the translation." * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (TSWL) *"[T]he first Korean novel devoted exclusively to the subject of the “comfort women.” In direct opposition to the Japanese government’s efforts to suppress the memory of its sex slave camps, Kim chooses to deploy language like a scalpel, crafting her narrative from the testimonies of dozens of Korean survivors... Granting dignity to the few living survivors is a matter of urgency, as highlighted by the fictional construct of One Left." * Ploughshares *"In this a telling of a tragic history from the perspective of one elderly former sex slave who sees herself as “the last one,” Kim revitalizes energy for this irreconcilable injustice in a new generation of readers." * Korean Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisYamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. This book tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys."Trade Review"Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature." -- Gordon Hirabayashi * Pacific Affairs *"Nisei will recognize the authenticity of the idioms Okada’s characters use, as well as his descriptions of the familiar Issei and Nisei mannerisms that make them come alive." -- Bill Hosokawa * Pacific Citizen *"[This new edition] brings Okada's groundbreaking work to a new generation . . . an internee and enlisted man himself, [Okada] wrote in a raw, brutal stream of consciousness that echoes the pain and intergenerational conflict faced by those struggling to reconcile their heritage to the concept of an American dream." -- Nancy Powell * Shelf Awareness *"It is both an important document of Japanese American and Pacific Northwest history and a compelling novel." -- Emily Lutenski * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Reading No-No Boy, this week, it no longer seemed bound to its past; it felt like a prophecy, a cosmic tragedy, a message in a bottle that arrives a half century later." -- Hua Hsu * Page-Turner *"It’s incorrect to say that No-No Boy is a forgotten masterwork . . . but it isn’t often acknowledged for articulating what had never been said before. The novel was a turning point in the consciousness of Japanese-Americans, and of Asian-Americans more generally—it marked the moment when identity shifted away from the homeland, away from Japan, because Japan was a country that Nisei, like Okada, never really quite knew. It was a novel that struggled to understand the entitlement that came so easily to other Americans—to explain why so few Japanese-Americans protested what had been done to them, that explored the shame of an immigrant who doesn’t feel he has a place in the world." * T: The New York Times Style Magazine *"No-No Boy may be read as a test of character, questioning the rigid binary of loyalty—yes or no—and teaching us what makes us human and complex, what constitutes character, are all the questions and cares that exist between yes and no: ethical and political choices, our best intentions, our social and cultural being, beliefs, courage, fears, failures, and compassion. More than half a century later, Okada's novel challenges us once again with the question of character, asking us, as individuals and as a society, what we are made of." -- Karen Tei Yamashita * Atlantic *"In 2019, No-No Boy is bigger than it's ever been." -- Vince Schleitwiler * The Margins *"I think back to John Okada, who fought in World War II even though his Japanese-American family was in an internment camp. Okada came back from the war and published No-No Boy in 1957, the first novel dealing with the little-known story of Japanese-American draft resisters. . . . Thinking back to writers like Sui Sin Far, Carlos Bulosan and John Okada, it is clear that genius is too often unrecognized in its day." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen * New York Times *"A slow-building 1957 novel about a young Japanese-American who, after the Second World War, is searching for a way to express his psychological anguish. . . . Okada died in 1971, unaware that his book had been discovered by a younger generation." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"It may be one of the only true classics of Japanese fiction that most Japanophiles have never heard of. No-No Boy . . . unravels the complicated, varied perspectives of Japanese-Americans in the aftermath of World War II under the shadow of the internment camps of the American northwest. . . . For the fascinating, multiple perspectives that unfold to reveal one important point in history, the novel deserves its place as a classic." * Japan Times *"Out of the brutal struggle against racism and anger, Okada finds hope." -- Martha Viehmann * NPR - Code Switch *"No-No Boy is not simply a forceful piece of Asian American literature, but also a realistic account of how war and social injustices affect the psychology of Japanese Americans across generations. . . . Presenting the trauma of Japanese Americans and their coping process, No-No Boy is itself and effort to break the silence and counter social amnesia." * Inquiries Journal *"The book is still the great Japanese American tragedy, whose power and authenticity derives from the unexpressed rage of his generation that Okada pours into his characters." -- Frank Abe * International Examiner *"The book, newly relevant today, evolves into a group portrait of immigrant parents and American children, conflicted veterans and no-no boys, those back home from the camps and those repatriated to Japan alike, all trying to move on from the same injustice." -- Nicholas Kulish * New York Times *"No-No Boy has been at the heart of the Asian American literary canon, where it is often treated as a quasi-miraculous artifact that prophesied a literary renaissance that would only come to fruition after the author's death." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"No-No Boy should be read as a salutary reminder of the tragic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, as the story of the distress of a young rebel torn between two societies, but also as a literary testimony to the mass political violence around human rights." * En attendant Nadeau *"[S]eminal novel...a significant book that influenced many Asian American writers who came after Okada." * New York Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword / Ruth Ozeki Introduction / Lawrence Fusao Inada Preface No-No Boy Afterword: In Search of John Okada / Frank Chin

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Book SynopsisThe real story of the Maneaters of Tsavo by the author of Last King of Scotland. The Africa House meets Jaws...

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Book SynopsisAn enthralling reflection on the ways that family history influences identity, from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literatureTrade ReviewFinalist for the 33rd Annual French Translation Prize sponsored by the French-American Foundation

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Book SynopsisA riveting English translation the Irish classic tale of heartache, death, and loneliness by the beloved author of The Dirty DustTrade Review“Alan Titley’s translation of Mairtin O Cadhain’s novella, originally published in Irish in 1970, is lively and inventive.”—Declan O’Driscoll, Times Literary Supplement“Unique, funny and bursting with earthy language.”—Kevin Gildea, Irish TimesPraise for Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s The Dirty Dust (Cré na Cille) “Cré na Cille is a work of daring imagination, filled with sly comedy. Using the voices of the dead, it dramatises the battle between life and death, time and infinity, the individual and the community. It is filled with gossip and banter, all the more lively because the voices live underground. It is the greatest novel to be written in the Irish language, and is among the best books to come out of Ireland in the twentieth century.”—Colm Tóibín “Cré na Cille—The Dirty Dust is a brilliant title—is a modern masterpiece that has remained locked away from non–Irish speakers for too long. Alan Titley was just the man to put it into English, and I welcome this wonderfully vivid and vigorous translation.”—John Banville, author of The Sea and Ancient Light “Alan Titley’s translation has the idiomatic speed and eagerness of the original. It has a composer’s grasp of tempo and of thematic signature. It is finally through it that we begin to see the nature of O Cadháin’s achievement. Now, with Titley’s wonderful translation, the great novel lives again.”—Seamus Deane, author of Reading in the Dark and editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing “In 1949 Dirty Dust shook the dust from the Irish-language novel’s feet and revealed graveyard corpses distracted by local jealousies and petty disputes assuming global importance. Sounding the death-knell of pastoral romances, this modernist Irish masterpiece is hilariously funny yet scathingly honest. Titley’s audacious adaptation offers the most popular and influential twentieth-century Irish-language novel in translation.”—Brian (Breen) Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame “Titley renders the tirades and flytings with the exact ear for dialogue which has characterised his own novels. . . . Here at last is a version done by a scholar who is also an artist.”—Declan Kiberd, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisA brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living authorTrade Review“A superb, mesmerizing novel, reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, set against the background of the permanent Russian threat to Central Europe.”—Misha Glenny, BBC broadcaster and journalistPraise for the Czech Edition: “A picaresque romp of black humor and fantasy, the novel teems with extraordinary characters, but it is also urgently contemporary.”—James A. Hopkin, Times Literary Supplement “As long as Europe inspires such works of art, all is not lost.”—Jorg Plath, Neue Zürcher Zeitung “Fast-paced and dazzling.”—Dennis Wagner, Kultur.21

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Book SynopsisThe complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first timeTrade Review“Choukri is one of Morocco’s most revered figures. . . . To have his words translated is to have the privilege to view the inner world of his intellect and the obscured landscapes of Tangier.”—Noshin Bokth, The New ArabA World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2023“With an unflinching focus on the spaces and people that the Moroccan state would like to keep invisible, Choukri’s trailblazing stories give voice to the marginalized and constitute a powerful act of literary protest.”—Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth College“Jonas Elbousty’s vivid, precise, and poetic translation brings to English readers a new cache of work by Mohamed Choukri. At once disorienting, violent, strange, and modern, these narratives both enrich and complicate our understanding of the essential Tangier author.”—Brian T. Edwards, Tulane University

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Book SynopsisA virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman ManeaTrade Review“One of the most eloquent living witnesses of the European 20th century, Norman Manea, at 87, has brought out Exiled Shadow, a contemplative work of fiction . . . [in] a strong, clarion translation into English by Carla Baricz. . . . A fitting summarization of a rich and deeply honorable career.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal“Manea has always had a penchant for experimental writing, but he has rarely experimented more boldly, and with more evident delight, than here.”—Costica Bradatan, Times Literary Supplement“Exiled Shadow belongs among the great, intricate, and uncompromising works of contemporary literature.”—Jan Knoffeke, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)“An evocative book on the self and its shadow in an era of destruction.”—Oliver Jens Schmitt, Falter (Austria)“Norman Manea’s inventive and powerful novel casts its bright light on the dark corners of history and experience, and wittily alchemizes tyranny, displacement and our essential human complexity into literature, into art.”—Francine Prose“A brilliant book, full of wisdom, humor, and intelligence, by a clear, profound voice that seems to convey centuries of experience. A masterpiece.”—Alberto Manguel“Norman Manea, eminent thinker and writer of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, stands as a major interpreter of the ironies of exile: the loss of birthplace, the loss of language, the loss of the past as it weaves through the nomadry of the future. In conceptually incisive imagery that burns through spirit and flesh, Exiled Shadow is in part a memoir, and a meditation, and a narrative of the history of cities and their ruins and their glories and crimes. It is also a demonstration of the nature of the artist: the man on the flying trapeze as well as the poet, the dreamer as well as the wandering Jew. There is no other novel like it, and there never will be.”—Cynthia Ozick“This book’s a diary of history, literature, and Norman Manea. His book knows more about my life than I do. Beautifully feigning, his prose suffers from a constant toothache of poetry. Some books save lives and souls.”—Stanley Moss

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Book SynopsisA new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into EnglishTrade ReviewA New Yorker Best of the Week Pick“[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.”—Geneviève Brisac, Le MondeA World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2023“[A] collection of economical, honest stories. They are all tinged with a sense of loss, but her spirited characters are determined to spit in the eye of bad faith.”—Eithne Farry, Daily Mail“Magnificent. . . . The Body of the Soul enhances [Ulitskaya’s] reputation as one of the most important Russian writers of her generation. . . . Each story provokes questions about the human condition that take readers far beyond the subject matter. . . . In this brilliant collection, Ulitskaya manages to convey the inexpressible, dazzling readers with her insight.”—Elizabeth Fifer, World Literature TodayPraise for Ludmila Ulitskaya: “One of the most important living Russian writers.”―Gary Shteyngart “Ulitskaya resists reductive ideological thinking, in her fiction as in life. She specializes in swerves of fate, not lockstep plots. Ulitskaya’s signature narrative perspective—a self-consciously feminine eye and ear intently at work—takes in matchmaking possibilities, mundane coincidences, and unexpected human chemistry. . . . The women in Ulitskaya’s work come off as strong and resilient, even magical.”—Leonard Bershidsky, The Atlantic “[Ulitskaya] has become a voice of moral authority for differently minded Russians.”—Masha Gessen, New Yorker

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Book SynopsisA classic novel set in the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel Sea

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Book SynopsisFiancés, friends, and other animals. . .After a year that sees a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away.Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu--an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals.On the island, Penny quickly finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers. Exploring--searching for the places the Durrells knew decades before--she makes unexpected discoveries about the hopes, fears, and secrets of the people living there today.And as strangers start to be friends, lives past and present become entwined in ways none of them could have predicted. . . 

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Book SynopsisAn epic comedy about the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, set amid the gorgeous landscapes of the American west: A “spiritual journey” full of “fun, joy, love, courage and compassion” (Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers) from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K. A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis.  A boy’s mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the angry young man, and innumerable others. The journeys of this unintentional menagerie

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Book SynopsisThis New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. “Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” —Financial Times In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.           

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Book Synopsis'A warm-hearted yet fierce fairy tale.'―H. G. Parry In the early 1900s, two sisters must navigate the magic and the dangers of the Fae in this enchanting and cozy historical fantasy about sisterhood and self-discovery. There is no magic on Prospect Hill—or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier—a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk for better layers in the chicken coop. Much of that old wisdom was lost as the riverboats gave way to the rail lines and the farmers took work at mills and factories. Alaine Fairborn’s family, however, was always superstitious, and she still hums the rhymes to find a lost shoe and to ensure dry weather on her sister’s wedding day. Whe

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Book SynopsisI was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Me. Lindsey Farrier. Taylor Avril. Blair Mattern. Jamie Stroud. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly Jamie--was kind enough to respond. And it got her killed. On the eve of Kyle''s sentencing a year after Jamie''s death, all the other Chosen Ones are coping in various ways, but our narrator is stuck. She''s still trying to figure out why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead. Now she finds herself drawn to Charlie, Jamie''s boyfriend--knowing all the while that their relationship will always be haunted by what-ifs and why-nots. How do you go on living when you know it could have been you? Maybe should have been you?

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Book SynopsisLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning Serena Williams of humor writing (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one.Called a comedic Godsend by Conan O''Brien and the Stephen King of comedy writing by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet.Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents'' annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper The Big Nap, a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of a world gone mad.Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an ode to growing up, growing older, and what it means to make a family.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFinalist for the Young Lions Fiction AwardOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon''s henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.Battered, heartbroken, and yet defiant, Ming partners with a blind clairvoyant known only as the prophet. Together the two set out to rescue his wife and to exact revenge on the men who destroyed Ming, aided by a troupe of magic-show performers, some with supernatural powers, whom they meet on the journey. Ming blazes his way across the West, settling old scores with a single-minded devotion that culminates in an explosive and une

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Book SynopsisA lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from 'one of our best crime writers at the top of his game' (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he’s certain there’s not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah’s file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady’s own home.   Ben’s daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady’s wife Dee ever since that awful

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Book SynopsisThis 'intricate' and 'remarkable' debut novel traces the impact of a violent event on three different lives, each interconnected story further complicating the truth. (Laura van den Berg) • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so it seems. She’s making it in New York, a sort of wunderkind at the social media marketing startup where she works. She’s put an experimental writer, Jeremy Miller, on the map by helping him concoct a viral internet novel, told in fragments through various fake social media accounts. But privately, Jane feels trapped, ruled by her routines and her compulsions with food and social media, caught up in an endless cycle of soothing and punishing herself. There is so much that she has to keep hidden, especially from Jeremy as their professional relationship transforms into something more. But then, tragedy strikes, and the story changes track. As the perspective shifts, so too does our image of Jane and those in her orbit as what we think we know begins to unravel. Audacious, emotionally precise and head-spinning in its ingenuity, Swallow the Ghost interrogates our public identities and private realities through the kaleidoscopic portrait of one woman's life.

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Book SynopsisA multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene). In 1964, Stanislavo, a zealous young man devoted to his ideals, turns his back on his privilege to join the leftist movement in the jungles of Venezuela. There, as he trains, he meets Emiliana, a nurse and fellow revolutionary. Though their intense connection seems to be love at first sight, their romance is upended by a decision with consequences that will echo down through the generations.   Almost forty years later, in a poor barrio of Caracas, María, a single mother, ekes out a precarious existence as a housekeeper, pouring her love into Eloy, her young son. Her devotion will not be enough, however, to keep them from disaster. On the eve of the attempted coup against President Chávez, Eloy is wounded by a stray bullet, fracturing her world. Amid the chaos at the hospital, María encounters Stanislavo, now a newspaper editor. Even as the country itself is convulsed by waves of unrest, this twist of fate forces a belated reckoning for Stanislavo, who may yet earn a chance to atone for old missteps before it’s too late.   With its epic scope, gripping narrative, and unflinching intimacy, Freedom Is a Feast announces a major new talent. Alejandro Puyana has delivered a wise and moving debut about sticking to one’s beliefs at the expense of pain and chaos, about the way others can suffer for our misdeeds even when we have the best of intentions, and about the possibility for redemption when love persists across time. Winner of the Westport Prize for Literature

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Book SynopsisAn atmospheric, moving, and droll coming-of-age story about a young man's transformative year on his family's struggling Icelandic cattle farm as he unexpectedly falls in love, rediscovers a passion for farming, and yearns to connect with his stoic father, who remains haunted by a tragic past.

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Book SynopsisA “raw, tensely plotted, profound high-wire act of a book” (Téa Obreht) on the intricacies of marriage, class, and race, and just how far one man will go to protect his family—and himself. Sharif is a good person. He knows that he is good because he’s aware of the privilege that he holds as a white man. He knows he is good because he chose to be a social worker at a nonprofit in Brooklyn, scraping by in New York City. And he knows he is good because his wife, Adjoua, a progressive Black novelist, has always said so. But Sharif’s goodness doesn’t protect him and Adjoua against bad luck. In an emergency, when they must find a new home for Judy, their beloved, unruly, giant dog before the imminent birth of their immunocompromised daughter, a desperate Sharif leaves Judy in the care of Emmanuel, an undocumented Haitian immigrant Sharif met through his social services nonprofit. When Emmanuel agrees to take the dog, it is only a momentary relief. What begins as a dispute between the young couple and Emmanuel's teenage son soon draws both families into a maelstrom of unpredictable conflict. As tempers flare into a public uproar, escalating to social media and being taken up by law enforcement, the cracks in Sharif and Adjoua’s marriage are exposed. The couple is forced to confront everything they thought they knew about race and empathy, while Sharif must question if he was ever good in the first place. Immersive and propulsive, The Uproar is the book we need to understand the moment we live in now.

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Book SynopsisUm, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you''ll have this summer. -Emily Temple, Literary HubRemy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy''s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewellery designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia''s entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart.Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen''s exalted social circle, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality, one shaped by their most unspeakable, deviant, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what self-actualization looks like?Part millennial social comedy, part psychedelic horror, and all wildly entertaining, A Touch of Jen is a sly, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves.

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