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Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan.

The Second World War broke out when Oe was six. Militaristic education extended...

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The Changeling

Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for...

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The Friend Who Got Away
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Chris Offutt
Chris Offutt is the author of the short-story collections Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods, the novel The Good Brother, and three memoirs: The Same River Twice, No Heroes, and My Father, the ...

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The Killing Hills

Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Hotel Iris. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published ...

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The Housekeeper and the Professor

Ellen Oh
Originally from New York City, Ellen Oh is the founder of We Need Diverse Books and the author of the Prophecy trilogy (Prophecy, Warrior, and King) for young adults. Spirit Hunters is her fourth book...

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Aline Ohanesian
Aline Ohanesian's great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Her history was the kernel for the story that Ohanesian tells in her first novel, Orhan's Inheritance. Ohanesian was a ...

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Orhan's Inheritance

Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin is the author of four previous books, most recently the novel Inside, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared...

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Inside
Dual Citizens

Kristin Ohlson
Kristin Ohlson has published articles and essays in the New York Times, Smithsonian.com, Salon.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Ms, O the Oprah Magazine, More, Discover, New Scientist, Miller-...

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After the Miracle
by Max Wallace

Many people have heard one particular story about Helen Keller—how the saintly teacher, Annie ...
The Lost Wife
by Susanna Moore

The Lost Wife is a hard-hitting novella based in part on a white settler named Sarah Wakefield's ...
Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley

Voted 2021 Best Young Adult Award Winner by BookBrowse Subscribers

Angeline Boulley's young adult ...
Hello Beautiful
by Ann Napolitano

Ann Napolitano's much-anticipated Hello Beautiful pulls the reader into a warm, loving familial ...