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Brady Udall
Brady Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in Arizona, where he worked on his grandfather's farm. He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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The Lonely Polygamist
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture.&#...

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A Muzzle for Witches

Hebe Uhart
Born in 1936 in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Hebe Uhart is one of the most original voices in the Spanish language. She is best known for her short stories exploring the lives of ordinary characters...

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A Question of Belonging

Myron Uhlberg
Myron Uhlberg is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of a number of children’s books. He lives with his wife in Santa Monica and Palm Springs.

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Hands of My Father

Steven Ujifusa
Steven Ujifusa received his AB in history from Harvard University and a master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, A Man and His Ship, tells the ...

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Barons of the Sea
The Last Ships from Hamburg

Steve Ulfelder
Steve Ulfelder, author of the Conway Sax mysteries, is an amateur race driver and co-owner of Flatout Motorsports, a Massachusetts company that builds race cars. He was a business and technology ...

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Purgatory Chasm
Shotgun Lullaby

Ludmila Ulitskaya
Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943) is an internationally acclaimed Russian novelist and short story writer.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are an award-winning team of literary translators who ...

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The Body of the Soul

Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman is the author of a novel, The Bug, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the cult classic memoir Close to the Machine, based on her years as a rare ...

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By Blood

Model Home
by Rivers Solomon

Rivers Solomon's novel Model Home opens with a chilling and mesmerizing line: "Maybe my mother is ...
The Mighty Red
by Louise Erdrich

Permit me to break the fourth wall. Like any good reviewer, I aim to analyze a book dispassionately,...
The Palace of Eros
by Caro De Robertis

When male suitors intended for her older sisters spread a rumor that Psyche's beauty surpasses that ...
Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte

A young man identifying as a feminist tumbles down the incel rabbit hole after a lifetime of sexual ...

In the Garden of Monsters
by Crystal King

A woman with no past, a man who knows her, and a monstrous garden that separates their worlds.

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The Bog Wife
by Kay Chronister

Five West Virginia siblings unearth secrets after the rupture of a supernatural bargain tying their fate to their land.

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