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    Book Jacket: The Original

    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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      by Jessica Francis Kane
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      by Victoria Redel
    3. The Empusium
      by Olga Tokarczuk

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    Book Jacket: So Many Stars

    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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    1. Something, Not Nothing
      by Sarah Leavitt
    2. Red Paint
      by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
    3. Feral City
      by Jeremiah Moss

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    Book Jacket: Song of the Six Realms

    Song of the Six Realms
    by Judy I. Lin

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    Xue'er has no place in the kingdom of Qi or any of the Six Realms. Her name means 'Solitary Snow' and it surely fits a girl doomed to life as an '...

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    1. Nightbirds
      by Kate J. Armstrong
    2. Strike the Zither
      by Joan He
    3. Hotel Magnifique
      by Emily J. Taylor

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    Book Jacket: Puck

    Puck
    by Samantha Allen

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    Unlike the Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is a mischievous servant of the Fairy King, Samantha Allen's Puck is a producer on a reality show...

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    1. The Austen Affair
      by Madeline Bell
    2. Henry Henry
      by Allen Bratton
    3. Don't Sleep with the Dead
      by Nghi Vo

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