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An Na
An Na was born in South Korea and grew up in San Diego, California. As a young person, she never imagined that she would grow up to be a writer. First, she thought she was supposed to be a doctor, but...

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The Place Between Breaths

Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist, futurist, and an award-winning author.

He helped develop two of the most widely used pieces of ...

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More Than Human

Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. After studying French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 ...

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The Original of Laura
Lolita

Reggie Nadelson
Reggie Nadelson is the author of Fresh Kills, Red Hook, Disturbed Earth, and four other Artie Cohen novels. Comrade Rockstar, her biography of Dean Reed, the American émigré who became ...

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Londongrad

Stuart Nadler
Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of two novels, Wise Men and The Inseparables, and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work...

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The Book of Life
Wise Men
The Inseparables
Rooms for Vanishing

Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and ...

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Reading Lolita In Tehran

Noor Naga
Noor Naga is an Alexandrian writer and the author of a verse novel, Washes, Prays. She is winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award, the RBC/PEN Canada Award, and the Disquiet Fiction Prize. She teaches at ...

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Harini Nagendra
Harini Nagendra is a professor of sustainability at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. She has received the Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar Award as well as the Cozzarelli Prize with Elinor Ostrom...

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The Bangalore Detectives Club
A Nest of Vipers

City of Night Birds
by Juhea Kim

City of Night Birds opens in the present day with a flight to St. Petersburg—a homecoming for ...
Death of the Author
by Nnedi Okorafor

Zelu is a frustrated writer, annoyed by her self-important students and the adjunct teaching load ...
The Capital of Dreams
by Heather O'Neill

"Sometimes war can set a woman free," declares Sofia Bottom's larger-than-life intelligentsia mother...
The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali

Seven-year-old Ellie, living in Tehran in the 1950s, has just lost her father. She and her single ...

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The Secret History of the Rape Kit
by Pagan Kennedy

The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.

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Going Home
by Tom Lamont

Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.

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