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A Million Things
Emily Spurr
Published 8/24/21

A soaring, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears.
Blind Man's Bluff
James Tate Hill
Published 8/3/21

A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight―and how he hid it from the world.
The Last Chance Library
Freya Sampson
Published 8/31/21

June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-...

Assembly
Natasha Brown
Published 9/14/21

A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer" (Bernardine Evaristo).
I Wished
Dennis Cooper
Published 9/14/21

"I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words...
The Spectacular
Zoe Whittall
Published 9/14/21

Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The...

Last Words on Earth
Javier Serena
Published 9/21/21

In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist.
Rogues' Gallery
John Oller
Published 9/21/21

From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of ...
The Other Merlin
Robyn Schneider
Published 9/21/21

Channeling the modern humor of The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, bestselling author Robyn Schneider creates a Camelot that becomes the ultimate teen rom-com hotspot in...

Fairuz: The Voice of Lebanon
Beyond the book article for After the Last Border

Fairuz is a Lebanese singer and actress, often hailed as the voice of Lebanon and the voice of hope. Having recorded over 1,500 songs and sold over 100 million records, her body of work is vast and globally admired.

Born in the Chouf region in the 1930s with the name Nuhad al-Haddad, her family ...
W.E.B. Du Bois
Beyond the book article for The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (aka W.E.B. Du Bois) was a noted author, historian, activist and sociologist as well as a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His philosophies play an important role throughout Honorée Fannone Jeffers' novel The ...
POW Camps in the U.S. During World War II
Beyond the book article for All the Little Hopes

In Leah Weiss's All the Little Hopes, the Brown family's North Carolina farm receives an influx of laborers in the form of captured German soldiers sent from the nearby prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. Some readers may be surprised to learn that there were many such camps in the United States during ...

Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Published 9/14/21

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in ...
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Published 9/7/21

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be...
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Published 9/7/21

Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez
Published 9/7/21

The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of ...
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Published 9/7/21

From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
The Orchard
David Hopen
Published 8/31/21

A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of ...

Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Published 5/25/21

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other.
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Published 5/18/21

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young, alike. The end of days is near, but life...
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Published 5/4/21

A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.

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