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The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
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Ocean Vuong's second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens with nineteen-year-old Hai about to jump off a bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut when he hears a voice ...
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Kim Kovacs
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The Slip
by Lucas Schaefer
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The Slip by Lucas Schaefer begins with a newspaper clipping highlighting the ten-year disappearance of Nathaniel Rothstein. Nathaniel, a troubled Jewish sixteen-year-old from ...
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Letitia Asare
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The Original
by Nell Stevens
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Money has always been bound up with marriage, for reasons of lineage and inheritance and more. The two concepts can become conflated, mirror one another, can each make the ...
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Elisabeth Cook
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So Many Stars
by Caro De Robertis
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Caro de Robertis' So Many Stars shares the personal stories of 20 trans and nonbinary people of color over age 50 who, through their activism, art, and courage, have ...
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Katharine Blatchford
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Christina Baker Kline
Books at BookBrowse:Christina Baker Kline is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World. Her novels have received the New ...
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