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• After the Forest

  Woods, Kell,

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  The Hansel and Gretel story we all know ends when they escape the witch's clutches by pushing her in the oven. Happily ever after right? Wrong. Set in Medieval Germany, this version begins in the aftermath of Hans's and Greta's flight from their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All-night Pharmacy

  a Novel

  Madievsky, Ruth,

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  Madievsky's dark debut is narrated by a young unnamed woman struggling to find her way in gritty present day Los Angeles, trailing in the wake of her wild older sister Debbie. Both sisters, under the less than watchful eye of their schizophrenic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boys Weekend

  Lubchansky, Mattie,

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  Nib cartoonist Lubchansky's graphic novel blends satire, horror, and dystopian elements. Sammie is a transfemme person at a time in their life of important self-discovery and transition, navigating what it means to be queer in spaces that are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fling

  Murray, Joseph (Digital marketer),

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  This romantic comedy is a novel about infidelity that features zero infidelity. After multiple failed attempts at IVF, Tara and Colin's marriage slowly - and then all at once - falls apart. Devastated by their inability to have children, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• King

  a Life

  Eig, Jonathan,

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  Eig's biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is among the first biographies about him to reference newly-released FBI files and White House tapes. Eig relied heavily on oral histories and never-before-seen archival material, such as Martin Luther King…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Land of Lost Things

  A Novel

  Connolly, John, 1968-

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  In Connolly's unexpected follow-up to his acclaimed "The Book of Lost Things" (published in 2006), readers get to take another captivating trip to Elsewhere. Decades after the first story took place, a single mother named Ceres is living every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maniac

  Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-

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  Labatut's follow-up to his acclaimed novel When We Cease to Understand the World expands on his theme of the toll of genius on great figures in modern physics, mathematics and computing. This novel focuses on three such figures, beginning with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Migrant Souls

  a Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

  Tobar, Héctor, 1963-

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  Tobar, a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize–winner, demonstrates his astounding talent in this powerful collection of essays focused on the diverse experiences of the Latinx Diaspora in the United States. Each chapter is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out There Screaming

  An Anthology of New Black Horror

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  Curated by the biggest name in horror cinema, Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us, Nope), this anthology presents nineteen tales of strange and speculative terror told by Black authors. Many of the featured authors are already big names in horror (Tananarive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roaming

  Tamaki, Mariko,

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  Cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki (the award-winning author and illustrator of the teen classic This One Summer) return to the graphic novel format with their coming-of-age story Roaming. It's spring break 2009 and childhood best friends Dani and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Other Eden

  a Novel

  Harding, Paul,

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  Describing a racially-integrated island whose inhabitants are independent and poor yet share everything they have and care for each other, Paul Harding asks readers what Eden should be. Discovered and settled in 1792 by former slave Benjamin Honey…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thread of Violence

  a Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

  O'Connell, Mark, 1979-

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  Irish writer O'Connell interviews the perpetrator of two notorious murders that happened in Dublin in the summer of 1982, interrogating the true crime genre along the way. The identity of the culprit, well-off dandy Malcolm Macarthur, is not in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thunderclap

  a Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death

  Cumming, Laura,

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  Art critic Cumming's Thunderclap is centered around the 1654 death of Dutch artist (and Rembrandt apprentice) Carel Fabritius when an explosion of gunpowder stores took out an entire block of Delft. Only a dozen of his paintings remain, one of which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Touched

  a Novel

  Mosley, Walter,

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  Have you ever woken up from a bizarre dream that you just can't shake but also can't quite remember? That's what happens to Martin 'Marty' Just, a mild-mannered, middle-aged family man who is transformed upon waking one day. He now has another…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under Alien Skies

  a Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

  Plait, Phil,

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  Pluto is very icy and therefore more reflective than most celestial bodies, and Pluto was long thought to be bigger than it is for that reason. This is one of the interesting facts astronomer Philip Plait shares in his book. Each chapter talks about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whalefall

  Kraus, Daniel

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  Jay Gardner is about to undertake an expedition of the most unique and foolish kind. His father, an old-school diver, died of a long and painful illness brought on by his profession. He has been dead a year now and the memories of their troubled…Read moreRead more of this annotation