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All That We Are Together

Alice Kellen - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Paperback

Three years without seeing him. Three years without Axel.How do you move on from a broken heart?Three years have passed since Axel Nguyen shattered Leah Jones' heart into a million pieces, and Leah has spent every moment of those three years distracting herself from the devastation....

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Counsel Culture

Kim Hye-jin - Restless Books
Format: Paperback

From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption. Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on a popular TV program. But when...

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The Dallergut Dream Department Store

Miye Lee - Hanover Square Press
Format: Book

WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SENSATION ARRIVES IN AMERICA. For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut..

What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would...

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A Good Life

Virginie Grimaldi - Europa Editions
Format: Book

Full of humor and compassion, a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life from France's most beloved contemporary novelistLaughter, tears, the transformative power of love, unexpected revelations, and striking natural beauty: these are the ingredients...

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The Hebrew Teacher

Maya Arad - New Vessel Press
Format: Paperback

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights." - Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The IdiotThree Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran...

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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou - Seven Seas
Format: Paperback

CALM BEFORE THE STORM. After two lifetimes of misunderstandings, Mo Ran and Chu Wanning have at last opened their hearts to one another. Mo Ran is determined to treat Chu Wanning with all the devotion his teacher deserves, but Chu Wanning has his doubts: has Mo Ran truly turned his attention...

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Jumpnauts

Hao Jingfang - S&S/Saga Press
Format: Paperback

From the Hugo Award­-winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands..

In...

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A Magical Girl Retires

Pak - HarperVia
Format: Book

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles...

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Mina's Matchbox

Yoko Ogawa - Pantheon
Format: Book

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.. In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother...

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No Es Un Rio

Selva Almada - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

It's not a river, it's this river.. A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous...

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One Hour of Fervor

Muriel Barbery - Europa Editions
Format: Book

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe's most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, loves...

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On her Own

Lihie Lapid - HarperVia
Format: Book

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me with the "issue-driven" gravity of Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street.Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food...

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Pink Slime

Fernanda Trias - Scribner
Format: Book

Named a MOST ANTICIPATED book of 2024 by LitHub A harrowing, intimate novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them teeters on the edge - marking an award-winning Latin American author's US debut. "An intimate, melancholic look at an ecologically...

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A Sunny Place for Shady People

Mariana Enriquez - Hogarth
Format: Book

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by "one of Latin America's most exciting authors" (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) . "Horror has found its master." - Joy Williams. On the shores...

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback

The new story collection from the author and translator of Cursed Bunny, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature!. Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's...

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