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Exploring the world through books! This diversity-focused issue introduces readers to titles from debut authors, general fiction, relationships, romance, books in the spotlight, and much more. Find titles from old favorites and newcomers alike, publishing throughout the spring. There’s nothing quite like curling up with a good book. We know that your readers will find plenty of new favorites among these carefully selected titles.
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Table of Contents Nonfiction & Fiction 3
Debut
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General Fiction
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History
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Relationships
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Romance
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Social Science
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Spotlight
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World Cultures
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Debut The Hearing Test Callahan, Eliza Barry
A young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness. As the specter of total deafness looms, the narrator keeps a record of her year while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
$24.00 F 9781646222131 03/05/2024 Catapult
The Tower Carr, Flora
This bold, feminist debut reimagines Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women, plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom.
$28.00
Two estranged brothers must confront the violence of the past when they find out a pond where they played as children will be dredged. Lily Rowe, the contractor in charge of the dredging, can also trace her roots—and her trauma—to the banks of Gibbs Pond.
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F 9780385550185 03/05/2024 Doubleday
The Dredge Flaherty, Brendan
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$26.00
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F 9780802162564 03/05/2024 Atlantic Monthly Press
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$28.00
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Lawrence, Vanessa
Set in the glossy world of beauty and fashion in New York City, this novel charts two high-powered women who connect over work—and perhaps more—while they navigate identity, belonging, and the complexity of modern relationships in the digital age.
F 9780593472774 03/05/2024 Dutton
Great Expectations
$28.00
Cunningham, Vinson
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life. Great Expectations is about David’s 18 months working for the Senator’s presidential campaign. Along the way, David meets several people who raise a set of questions that force David to look at his own life anew.
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9780593448236 03/12/2024 Hogarth
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One Moment Hunter, Becky
The day Scarlett dies, her spirit remains. Because she’s still here—wherever here is—watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of her loved ones. She’d do anything to go back and join the living, especially Evie, her best friend, who needs her now more than ever.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. —
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$29.00 F 9781538741757 03/12/2024 Forever
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Sylvia’s Second Act Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand.
$29.00 F 9780593493618 03/12/2024
Pamela Dorman Books
The Divorcées Beaird, Rowan
A debut novel set at a 1950s Reno “divorce ranch,” about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future. Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcées, all in Reno for the six weeks’ residency that is the state’s only divorce requirement.
$28.99
A powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect.
9781250896582 03/19/2024 Flatiron Books
$28.00
A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London, pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch. Witnessing the complete transformation of her daughter, Hannah suspects that Elsie has delved too deep into the labyrinths of Jewish mysticism and gotten lost among shadows.
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F 9780063312692 03/19/2024 Mariner Books
Fervor Lloyd, Toby
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Annie Bot Greer, Sierra
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Yablon, Hillary
$28.00
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F 9781668033333 03/19/2024 Avid Reader Press
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The Waves Take You Home DEBUT
Vélez, María Alejandra Barrios
The death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her destiny. Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother.
$28.99 F 9781662513954 03/19/2024
Lake Union Publishing
Off the Air Estes, Christina
Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona. When word gets out about a death at a radio station, the body is soon identified as Larry Lemmon, a controversial talk show host. And Jolene conducted his final interview.
$28.00
The Song of Achilles meets The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in this queer, Asian reimagining of an epic love story blending historical figures with Chinese folklore. The novel gives us blood, sex, and adventure across three lifetimes and deals with themes of acceptance, belonging, and free will.
9781250863850 03/26/2024 Minotaur Books
$28.99
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. Deadpan, dark, and brutally funny, Worry is a sharp portrait of two sisters enduring a dreadfilled American moment.
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F 9780778305231 03/26/2024 Harlequin MIRA
Worry Tanner, Alexandra
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace Huang, Justinian
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$27.00 F 9781668018613 03/26/2024 Scribner
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Like Happiness
$28.00
A searing debut novel about the complexities of gender, power, race, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera, Tatum Vega spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works.
F 9781250882837 03/26/2024 Celadon Books
A Good Happy Girl
$27.00
Higgins, Marissa
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple. Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destructive streak, is secretly reeling from a disturbing crime of neglect that her parents recently committed.
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Villarreal-Moura, Ursula
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F 9781646221974 04/02/2024 Catapult
New Winter Tıtles!
Publisher Gallery Update! TOP NEW TITLES— Just a Click Away!
Browse each gallery for publisher picks that readers will devour. DIVERSITY | ISSUE 01
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Your Presence Is Mandatory DEBUT
Vasilyuk, Sasha
A riveting debut novel, based on real events. This novel follows a Ukrainian World War II veteran, with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family, who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.
$28.99 F 9781639731534 04/23/2024
Bloomsbury Publishing
Oye Mogollon, Melissa
A young woman reckons with her rowdy, unpredictable family and the revelation of their long-buried history in this wildly inventive debut. Luciana is the baby of her Colombian American family. Usually relegated to the sidelines, she now finds herself the voice of reason in the middle of their unexpected crisis.
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A transportive and chilling debut novel about two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother—and the Devil. It’s 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island’s women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead.
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F 9780593594902 05/14/2024 Hogarth
The Blue Maiden Nóyes, Anna
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$26.00
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It’s a Privilege Just to Be Here Sasaki, Emma
This debut novel pulls at the threads in the (cashmere) sweater of academia in a witty take-down of racial inequality at prep schools. Perfect for fans of Such a Fun Age and Little Fires Everywhere.
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$29.99 F 9781639107834 06/04/2024 Alcove Press
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General Fiction Anita de Monte Laughs Last Gonzalez, Xochitl
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. This is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art.
$28.99 F 9781250786210 03/05/2024 Flatiron Books
The Great Divide Henriquez, Cristina
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. Searing and empathetic, The Great Divide explores the intersecting lives of activists, fishmongers, laborers, journalists, neighbors, doctors, and soothsayers—those rarely acknowledged by history.
$30.00
The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria’s scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll—and a mass burial site. Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, this book takes readers on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory.
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F 9780063291324 03/05/2024 Ecco
The Children of the Dead Jelinek, Elfriede / Honegger, Gitta (Translator)
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$32.50
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F 9780300142150 03/12/2024 Yale University Press
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Diamond Promises GENERAL FICTION
Jacobs, Anna
Lancashire, 1895. Abigail Dawson has lived in fear of her father for 30 years. But when he’s found murdered in the street, her life is turned upside down. Alone and caught in a web of her father’s secrets, Abigail needs someone to rely on.
$28.99 F 9781529351415 03/19/2024
Hodder & Stoughton
Memory Piece Ko, Lisa
Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives.
$28.00
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Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever.
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F 9780593542101 03/19/2024 Riverhead Books
Double Lives Monroe, Mary
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$28.00
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Dafina
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories Alvarez, Julia
When celebrated writer Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she creates a graveyard for her failed manuscript drafts, revisions, and characters. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But the cemetery soon becomes a mysterious sanctuary for her characters’ true narratives.
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$28.00
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F 9781643753843 04/02/2024 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Sanctuary
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In 1930s Italy, a woman must battle the sinister forces threatening her life and sanity in the run-down, isolated watermill she calls home, a place last inhabited centuries ago. Grief leaves a stain.
$28.99
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CamCat Books
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Summer After Summer Bailey, Lauren
A woman returns to her family’s beach house for a final time—and a final chance at the love she’s lost before, in this contemporary retelling of Persuasion. It’s been years since the last time things blew up between Olivia and Fred. Maybe, just maybe, the fifth time’s the charm.
$29.99
Dennis Monk is 26, a college graduate, and a former blackout drunk. Monk makes his humbling pilgrimage through a Philadelphia itself in an awkward state of change; growing, gentrifying, maturing in baffling and humiliating and wonderful ways; haunted by its past as well as its unrealized potential.
9781639106554 05/07/2024 Alcove Press
$26.00
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of 10 women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town. Touching on womanhood, class, sexuality, ambition, disappointment, and tragedy, this novel is a stunning rendering of love and loss, and a lesson that no one walks this earth alone.
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F 9781662602245 05/07/2024 Astra House
Women and Children First Grabowski, Alina
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Early Sobrieties Deagler, Michael
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Repetto, Valentina Cano
$28.00
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F 9781638930785 05/07/2024 SJP Lit
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Bomb Island GENERAL FICTION
Hundley, Stephen
Part coming-of-age romance, part thriller, Bomb Island is a funny and fast-paced Southern summer novel exploring sub-culture communities, survival, and found family set on an island near an unexploded atomic bomb. Narrated by an ensemble cast of uniquely independent outsiders.
$25.95 F 9798885740258 05/07/2024 Hub City Press
Wait Burnham, Gabriella
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears. What will Elise do when the new life she created in college collides with the life she left behind on the island?
$27.00
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery. It’s 2001, and 24-year-old Gordon takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go.
9780593596500 05/21/2024 One World
$28.00
The beginning of a brand-new trilogy, featuring the Silvertown Explosion, the rise of women’s football, and East End suffragettes. When Sidney unexpectedly returns from the Western Front, life at home suddenly feels more dangerous than a battlefield.
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F 9780374608187 05/21/2024 MCD
A Daughter’s Heartbreak Brellend, Kay
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In Tongues Grattan, Thomas
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$26.99 F 9780349435527 06/18/2024 Piatkus
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French Windows Nathalia, a young photographer, has been seeing a therapist. Having accidentally photographed a murder, she finds that she can no longer do her job. Instead, Doctor Faber suggests that she write about the neighbors she idly observes in the building across the street. But these written snapshots become suspiciously detailed.
$18.95 F 9781913547752 06/25/2024 Gallic Books
Bear Phillips, Julia
A mesmerizing novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor. This is a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth.
$28.00
Under the bright side of the stars, Addie and Tessa Jane come to see that magic can be found in trusting yourself, that falling apart is simply a chance to rise up again, stronger than ever, and that the heart usually knows the best path through the darkness.
9780525520436 06/25/2024 Hogarth
$28.99
A brand-new novel in the Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time. When an antique tin of love letters is found hidden in her family home, noted historian Tay Dove rushes home to Dove Pond to investigate.
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F 9781250867292 07/23/2024 Forge
The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams Hawkins, Karen
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A Certain Kind of Starlight Webber, Heather
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GENERAL FICTION
Laurain, Antoine
$28.99
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F 9781982195977 08/27/2024 Gallery Books
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History The Achilles Trap Coll, Steve
The definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein. This is a deeply researched and news-breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the costliest geopolitical conflicts of our time.
100 Moments in the History of Mexico Rosas, Alejandro / Molina, Sandra
The lavishly illustrated and remarkable story of Mexico, spanning more than four thousand years. This book traces the expansive history of the country through key events ranging from the preColumbian era to the present.
The Deerfield Massacre Swanson, James L.
A spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Native Americans and colonists in 1704 Massachusetts. The sacking of Deerfield led to one of the greatest sagas of adventure, survival, sacrifice, family, honor, and faith ever told in North America.
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956.7044 9780525562269 02/27/2024 Penguin Press
$34.95
Trade Paper
972.11 9781595342843 02/27/2024 Tinta Books
$30.00 974.422 9781501108167 02/27/2024 Scribner
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The Wounded World Williams, Chad L.
A History of the Muslim World Cook, Michael
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day.
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HISTORY
For more than two decades, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book remained unfinished. The Wounded World is the account of Du Bois’s failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works.
$21.00 9781250321916 04/02/2024 Picador
$39.95
Hardcover
909.0976 9780691236575 05/07/2024 Princeton University Press
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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— ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
Japanese Submarines in World War Two Treadwell, Terry C.
The submarine losses suffered by the Japanese Navy during World War II—when Allied, and in particular U.S. destroyers and aircraft hunted them down—are all recorded in this comprehensive account of a fascinating element of the war at sea.
$44.95
Hardcover
940.54 9781399094221 05/15/2024 Naval Institute Press
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Relationships Medgar and Myrlie Reid, Joy-Ann
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers’s assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history.
$30.00 920.9 9780063068797 02/06/2024 Mariner Books
Slow Noodles Nguon, Chantha
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot’s genocide in the 1970s, but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother’s kitchen. This lyrical and magical memoir includes over 20 Khmer recipes.
$29.00
A memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance. Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parents’ desires.
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B 9781643753492 02/20/2024 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Whiskey Tender Taffa, Deborah Jackson
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$30.00 B 9780063288515 02/27/2024 Harper
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Owens, Zibby
A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a hilarious debut novel about family, friendship, success, and exhilarating self-(re) discovery. Pippa Jones is a fortyish former literary sensation who fears she will be a one-hit wonder.
$28.99 F 9781662516696 03/01/2024 Little A
Hanging with Hugo Hyde, Katherine Bolger
Writer’s retreat Windy Corner becomes a sanctuary of a different kind when a man and his foster daughter are harassed by a social worker, with tragic consequences. Could one of the guests Emily and Luke have come to trust turn out to be a murderer?
$29.99
A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn. Friends since college, Rob, Julia, and Ray are boomers who set out in their twenties to make things right in America.
9781448311866 03/05/2024 Severn House Publishers
$27.99
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes. Then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want, but can’t seem to resist.
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F 9781956763980 03/05/2024 Arcade
This Could Be Us Ryan, Kennedy
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American Sycamore Kenney, Charles
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Blank
$29.00
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F 9781538767436 03/05/2024 Forever
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Pride and Joy
$27.99
Onomé, Louisa
Three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grapple with their matriarch’s sudden passing, while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back. Desperate to believe that they’re about to witness a miracle, the family overhauls their birthday plans to welcome the Nigerian Canadian community.
F 9781668012819 03/12/2024 Atria Books
Where Rivers Part Yang, Kao Kalia
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother, who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds. Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War.
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$28.99 9781982185299 03/19/2024 Atria Books
— ELIZABETH GILBERT
A Great Country From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.
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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow— this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya
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$30.00 F 9780063324343 03/26/2024 Mariner Books
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Chancy, Myriam J. A.
From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families—forever joined by country, and by long-held secrets—and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. Village Weavers confronts the silences around class, race, and nationality.
$27.95 F 9781959030379 04/02/2024 Tin House Books
Wedding Issues Evans, Elle
Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honor to stop being a people pleaser and figure out what she wants out of life in this hilarious, frothy debut.
$27.99
When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton’s life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for life beyond the walls of the commune.
9781958506752 04/02/2024 Zibby Books
$29.00
The story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside. Together for the first time in years, the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found.
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F 9780593470091 04/09/2024 Anchor
The Alternatives Hughes, Caoilinn
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The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers Burr, Samuel
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Village Weavers
$28.00
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F 9780593545003 04/16/2024 Riverhead Books
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Home Is Where the Bodies Are Rose, Jeneva
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood.
$27.99 F 9798212182843 04/30/2024
Blackstone Publishing
The Mother of All Things Landau, Alexis
From the author of the WWII novel Those Who Are Saved (“sweeping and lyrical”–People), comes an electrifying page-turner about how female rage, grief, and creativity collide when a woman reconnects with her essential self during a family summer journey.
$29.00
A dazzling debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
9780593700792 05/07/2024 Pantheon
$28.00
As a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother. Now an adult, she’s finally broken free. But when her stepmother starts preying on her young half-sister, Anuri decides she must stop the cycle of abuse.
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F 9781954118607 05/07/2024 Spiegel & Grau
Allow Me to Introduce Myself Nwabineli, Onyi
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Shanghailanders Min, Juli
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$28.99
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F 9781525896033 05/28/2024 Graydon House Books
Kelley, Pamela
Two sisters, both book lovers, explore a summer of second chances and new beginnings. When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt’s oceanfront house in Chatham for the summer, it seems like just the thing to get her creative juices flowing.
$31.00 F 9781250283597 06/04/2024 St. Martin’s Griffin
All Friends Are Necessary Moniz, Tomas
This is a commanding story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves. Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. There to nurture Chino is a coterie of new and old friends and lovers.
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$27.00
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The Seaside Sisters
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F 9781643755816 06/11/2024 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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Romance Three Kinds of Lucky Harrison, Kim
After an unthinkable accident, Petra Grady and Benedict are forced to go on the run to seek an outcast exiled 10 years ago for the crime of using dross to cast spells. Now Grady must decide whether to stick with the magical status quo or embrace her own hidden talents.
$28.00 F 9780593437476 03/05/2024 Ace
A Love Discovered Peterson, Tracie
Marybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?
$29.99
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, set in 1920s Appalachia. Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service. But Spar Creek holds a darkness beyond his nightmares.
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F 9780764242694 03/05/2024 Bethany House Publishers
The Woods All Black Mandelo, Lee
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$19.99 F 9781250790316 03/19/2024 Tordotcom
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The Mars House A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London’s Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars.
$29.99 F 9781639732333 03/19/2024
Bloomsbury Publishing
Oriana Rubis, Anastasia
A novel about Oriana Fallaci, the brilliant and glamorous Italian journalist who blazed a trail for women in the 1970s with her hard-hitting interviews of world leaders, but struggled in her personal life to find love and happiness.
$27.99
Every time Daphne Bell meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. But as Jake and Daphne’s story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper’s prediction.
9781953002365 03/19/2024 Delphinium Books
$27.00
Justin has a curse. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up.
Hardcover
F 9781982166823 03/19/2024 Atria Books
Just for the Summer Jimenez, Abby
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Expiration Dates Serle, Rebecca
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ROMANCE
Pulley, Natasha
$29.00
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F 9781538767443 04/02/2024 Forever
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In ROMANCE
Wiswell, John
Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she’s fallen in love. After one incident goes badly, Shesheshen’s nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human.
$28.00 F 9780756418854 04/02/2024 DAW
The Hemlock Queen Whitten, Hannah
In this second book of the series, Lore’s old allies are pulling away. Even Prince Bastian’s changed. And something’s been whispering in her ear. A voice, dark and haunting, that’s telling her there’s more to the story than she knows. A truth buried deep that could change everything.
$30.00
Two students—worlds apart—unite to solve the mystery of a legendary decades-old love story gone wrong. One by one, the letters suck Jessie and Ravi into a beguiling mystery and an achingly beautiful long-ago romance destined to go up in flames. It’s also drawing Jessie and Ravi closer together.
9780316435291 04/09/2024 Orbit
$28.99
At 43, Ted is convinced there’s nothing remotely remarkable about him, except perhaps his luck in having landed handsome, charismatic Giles as a husband. Then Giles suddenly leaves him for another man. Now Ted must reimagine the future he has happily taken for granted.
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F 9781662500732 05/07/2024 Skyscape
Becoming Ted Cain, Matt
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The Letters We Keep Sharma, Nisha
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F 9781496745941 05/21/2024 John Scognamiglio Book
The Nightmare in Him The Ancients and the Aeons. Two groups of powerful immortals that have not seen eye to eye for millennia. And right now, at the heart of their conflict, stands Wynter Dellavale. Wynter is a witch who sought safe haven for herself and her coven in Devil’s Cradle.
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$26.99
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ROMANCE
Wright, Suzanne
F 9780349434599 05/28/2024 Piatkus
...let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences...
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— S Y LV I A P L AT H
Just Some Stupid Love Story Doyle, Katelyn
Meet a rom-com screenwriter who doesn’t believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high-school reunion 15 years after their breakup. Molly assures Seth they are a tale of timeless heartbreak. Seth has five years to prove her wrong.
$28.99 F 9781250328090 06/04/2024 Flatiron Books
Happy Harbor Hanna, Rachel
A heartfelt, hometown romance. Josie Campbell finally has it all. But when that life falls apart, and her beloved nana dies, Josie is forced to return to the one place she never wanted to visit again. Soon, she finds herself stepping into Nana’s shoes in Happy Harbor.
Hardcover
$25.99
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F 9798212171588 06/11/2024 Blackstone Publishing
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How to Age Disgracefully ROMANCE
Pooley, Clare
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club, the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building. Now the members of the Social Club must join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door to save the building.
$29.00 F 9780593831496 06/11/2024
Pamela Dorman Books
Daughters of Chaos Fawkes, Jen
Award-winning author Jen Fawkes’s Daughters of Chaos is an epic novel about Civil War-era Nashville’s “public women,” a secret society spanning millennia, and the earth-shaking power of the female. The year is 1862. After a tragedy at home, 22-yearold Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother.
$27.00
Is it possible to be drawn to someone you’ve never met? When Ruby feels the eyes of a stranger in the woods, she knows she should be scared, should run away, but she can’t. Instead, she feels a thrill, drawn to this stranger who follows her in the woods.
9781419772474 07/09/2024 Overlook Press
$30.00
Joseph and Evelyn gather their grown children to share the stunning news: Evelyn has received a tragic diagnosis, and Joseph cannot live without her. In one year’s time, they will end their lives on their own terms. As the couple comes to grips with their fate, they retrace their past.
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F 9780008670795 07/30/2024 One More Chapter
The Days I Loved You Most Neff, Amy
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A Curse of Blood and Wolves McTernan, Melissa
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$28.99 F 9780778310471 07/30/2024 Park Row
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Social Science Georgia and the Power of the Vote Sims-Alvarado, Karcheik
Traces the history of Georgia’s enfranchisement and its influence on American politics from 1865 to 2021. During multiple waves, massive voter registration, mobilization, and suppression efforts were influenced by the pull-pull forces of those wanting to sustain power and those untiringly committed to acquiring it.
$24.99 975.8 9781467109482 02/05/2024
Arcadia Publishing
The Case for Open Borders Washington, John
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis. In each chapter, journalist and translator John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders.
$19.95
In this galvanizing memoir, Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez recounts her childhood as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico. Armed with only her passport and sheer determination, Elizabeth became what her school would describe as an unaccompanied, homeless youth.
Trade Paper
325.73 9798888900727 02/06/2024 Haymarket Books
My Side of the River Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo
Trade Paper
$29.00
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B 9781250277954 02/13/2024 St. Martin’s Press
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt Purnell, Brontez
From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends, a wrenching, sexy, and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his peripatetic life, whose ups and downs have nothing on the turmoil within.
LatinoLand A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.
02/13/2024 MCD x FSG Originals
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305.868 9781982184896 02/20/2024 Simon & Schuster
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— GEORGE WASHINGTON
Jebara, Mohamad
While viewed in retrospect as the grand scripture of triumphant empires, the Qur`an unfolded over 22 years amidst intense persecution, suffering, and loneliness. The Life of the Qur’an recounts this vivid drama as a biography examining the book’s obscured heritage, complex revelation, and contested legacy.
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The Life of the Qur’an
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$32.50
Arana, Marie
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$17.00
$30.00
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297.122 9781250282361 02/27/2024 St. Martin’s Essentials
Wong, Alice
A revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. These pages explore disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. Featuring 25 stunning original pieces—plus other modern classics on the subject.
Contestations of Citizenship, Education, and Democracy in an Era of Global Change
Kubow, Patricia K. (Editor) / Webster, Nicole (Editor) / Strong, Krystal (Editor) / Miranda, Daniel (Editor)
This text considers the shifting social, political, economic, and educational structures shaping contemporary experiences, understandings, and practices of citizenship among children and youth in diverse international contexts. As such, this edited book examines the meaning of citizenship in an era defined by monumental global change.
$19.00 306.7087 9780593469736 03/26/2024 Vintage
$48.95
Leg is Greg Marshall’s “riotous” (People) and “witty” (USA Today) memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. Leg is an extraordinarily funny and insightful memoir from a daring new voice.
Writing Juárez Jochum, Tobias A.
A reflection on recent literary accounts of violence at the U.S.Mexico border. The book explores political resistance and representational ethics. This study brings together Mexican anthropologies of violence, critical geography, political theory, continental philosophy, and postcolonial media and affect theory to examine literature from both sides of the border.
Trade Paper
305.23 9781032055138 05/03/2024 Routledge
Leg Marshall, Greg
Trade Paper
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Disability Intimacy
$18.00
Trade Paper
B 9781419775062 06/11/2024 Abrams Press
$44.00
Trade Paper
972.8 9783593515632 08/02/2024 Campus Verlag
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Spotlight Model Citizen Meeks, Jeremy
Jeremy Meeks first catapulted to fame when his model-worthy mugshot went viral. Now he sets the record straight about his life-changing journey from the streets to the runway. From humble beginnings to wealth, high fashion, and Hollywood, Meeks is a true success story.
$29.99 B 9781954220669 02/06/2024 Kingston Imperial
What Have We Here? Williams, Billy Dee
A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who’s played the roles he wanted— unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.
$32.00
Highly-trained in warfare, self-defense, infiltration, and deep surveillance, “the Unit,” as the Department of Defense has asked us to refer to it, has been responsible for preventing dozens of terrorist attacks in the Western world. Never before has a member of this unit shared their story—until now.
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B 9780593318607 02/13/2024 Knopf
The Unit Gamal, Adam / Kennedy, Kelly
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$30.00 B 9781250278173 02/20/2024 St. Martin’s Press
Hardcover
The House of Hidden Meanings This is a brutally honest memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home, discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. This is a self-portrait of the legendary icon about the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.
$29.99 B 9780063263901 03/05/2024 Dey Street Books
Not Your China Doll Salisbury, Katie Gee
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles in the ginsoaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
$32.00
From renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving— an attempt on his life 30 years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Knife is a meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again.
9780593183984 03/12/2024 Dutton
$28.00
Victoria Alonso takes readers on her journey from Argentina to America to Hollywood, illuminating the ways everyone can live in a heightened state of possibility and use their voice for change. The author is donating all of her proceeds from this book to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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B 9780593730249 04/16/2024 Random House
Possibility Is Your Superpower Alonso, Victoria
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Knife Rushdie, Salman
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SPOTLIGHT
RuPaul
$28.99
Hardcover
B 9781368090087 09/03/2024 Hyperion Books for Children
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World Cultures 100 Jewish Brides Vinick, Barbara (Editor) / Reinharz, Shulamit (Editor)
Features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories—written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates—cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to the wedding ceremony, and beyond.
$28.00 296.444 9780253068361 02/06/2024
Indiana University Press
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World Lawson, Shayla
In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns muscular and luminous, Lawson explores layered meanings within love, time, and the self.
$29.00
Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. Gorani’s path to self-discovery started the moment she could understand that she was “other” wherever she found herself to be.
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B 9780593472583 02/06/2024 Tiny Reparations Books
But You Don’t Look Arab Gorani, Hala
Hardcover
$30.00
Hardcover
B 9780306831645 02/20/2024 Hachette Book Group USA
Tiffy Cooks The wildly popular blogger and TikTok sensation shares 88 of her favorite easy, everyday, family-style recipes from across Asia. With 88 (a very lucky number in Chinese culture) flavor-packed recipes, Tiffy offers her favorite quick and easy dishes.
3 Shades of Blue Kaplan, James
This is the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue.
Mexico City Huck, James D., Jr.
This book looks at the rich, complex, and often troubled history of Mexico City with the express purpose of highlighting the creative political, economic, cultural, and artistic contributions that this dynamic place has afforded the world. Narrative chapters discuss Mexico City’s history, politics, economy, culture and lifestyle, and more.
$30.00
Hardcover
641.595 9781984861290 02/27/2024 Ten Speed Press
$32.00
W O R L D C U LT U R E S
Chen, Tiffany
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920 9780525561002 03/05/2024 Penguin Press
$68.00
Hardcover
972.05 9781440869013 03/07/2024 ABC-Clio
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Reinbou
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Dominicana meets Woman of Light in this propulsive work of historical fiction about U.S. intervention and corruption in the Dominican Republic. In 1976 Santo Domingo, Ángel Maceta uncovers the real story behind the murder of his father, Puro Maceta, 10 years prior.
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9781662602511 03/12/2024 Astra House
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$26.00
Cabiya, Pedro / Powell, Jessica (Translator)
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Islas Diaz, Von
An intimate reflection on tropical island cooking’s bold flavors and big stories, with 125 recipes. The islands spanning the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans are remarkable places, sharing many ingredients and cooking techniques, including marinating, pickling and fermentation, braising and stewing, frying, grilling and smoking, and steaming and in-ground roasting.
$35.00 641.5913 9781797215242 03/12/2024 Chronicle Books
Freddie Mercury Dean, Tres / Aiko, Kyla (Illustrator) / Richardson, Robin (Illustrator) / Zerrougui, Safiya (Illustrator) / Liu, Ames (Illustrator) / Wang, Tammy (Illustrator)
For the first time in comics format, journey through Freddie’s life; from his childhood in Zanzibar, through his formative years in England, to becoming the rock star known and loved by millions around the globe. The story is told in his own words.
Mind-Blowing Kusudama Origami Loper, Byriah
Kusudama were originally used to hold incense in Japanese Buddhist temples. Modern Kusudama consist of dozens of colorful papers folded and fitted together to form ornate spherical sculptures. In this exciting new book, master paper folder Byriah Loper presents 30 of his own original and spectacular Kusudama creations.
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$24.99
Hardcover
B 9781940878867 03/26/2024 Z2 Comics
$19.99 736.982 9784805316993 03/26/2024 Tuttle Publishing
Trade Paper
Corky Lee’s Asian America A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time.
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$50.00
Hardcover
770.8995 9780593580127 04/09/2024 Clarkson Potter
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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— M A H AT M A G A N D H I
The Unofficial Studio Ghibli Cookbook Yun, Jessica
Since 1985, Studio Ghibli has enchanted moviegoers with fantastic stories of adventure, magic, friendship, family, and most of all—the most delicious-looking animated food. Now you can create your own mouthwatering dishes with this book full of 50 unofficial, fan-created recipes!
My Mexican Mesa, Y Listo! Martinez, Jenny
From viral TikTok sensation Jenny Martinez comes a mouthwatering cookbook featuring 100 authentic, homestyle Mexican recipes that are perfect for any occasion. Recipes range from breakfast and appetizers to tacos, tamales, and taquitos.
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Lee, Corky / Ng, Chee Wang (Editor) / Ngai, Mae (Editor)
$19.95
Trade Paper
641.5952 9781646045822 04/23/2024 Ulysses Press
$32.50
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641.5972 9781668009970 04/30/2024 Simon Element
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Noodles, Rice, and Everything Spice W O R L D C U LT U R E S
De Witte, Christina / Kauppinen, Mallika
An approachable, fun comic book cookbook tour of Thai culture and cuisine, with 50 recipes and stories from the country’s main culinary regions. Combines easy-to-follow comic book panels with pops of vibrant food photography to perfectly capture the bright, colorful flavors and ingredients.
The Curry Guy Thai Toombs, Dan
Thai cuisine is known for its light dishes that are packed with diverse flavors and textures. With over 100 recipes, Dan offers up his own versions of those much-loved dishes, including beef massaman curry, red duck curry, pad Thai, fishcakes, and summer rolls.
Trap Kitchen Jenkins, Malachi / Smith, Roberto / Iandoli, Kathy
This electrifying masterpiece takes the essence of Trap Kitchen’s undeniable cool and infuses it with the irresistible flavors of Jamaican cuisine. Prepare to be astounded with over 60 recipes, steeped in centuries of history and culture, as they unleash a sensory explosion that will leave you breathless.
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$22.99
Trade Paper
641.5959 9781984861603 05/07/2024 Ten Speed Press
$22.99
Hardcover
641.5959 9781787136144 05/07/2024 Quadrille Publishing Ltd
$29.99 641.5972 9781954220621 06/04/2024 Kingston Imperial
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