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Lucky Boy

Shanthi Sekaran - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy."Sekaran has written a page-turner that's touching and all too real." - People"A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds...
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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY...
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American Street

Ibi Zoboi - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys. In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical...
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Waking Lions

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

In this thrilling drama from an award-winning author, after one nights deadly mistake, a man will go to any lengths to save his family and his reputation. Neurosurgeon Eitan Green has the perfect life - married to a beautiful police officer and father of two young boys. Then, speeding along...
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Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel ... [that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America...
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with...
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No One Can Pronounce My Name: A Novel

RAKESH SATYAL - Picador
Format: Hardcover

One of Goodreads' Best Books of the Month (May 2017) One of BuzzFeed's 31 Incredible New Books You Need to Read This SpringOne of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the YearA HUMOROUS AND TENDER MULTIGENERATIONAL NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND OUTSIDERS...
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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

"Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan's powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East &...
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Live from Cairo: A Novel

IAN BASSINGTHWAIGHTE - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From a hugely talented, award-winning young author, a brilliant, lively debut novel about an impulsive American attorney, a methodical Egyptian translator, and a disillusioned Iraqi-American resettlement officer trying to protect a refugee who finds herself trapped in Cairo during the turbulent...
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What We Lose: A Novel

ZINZI CLEMMONS - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The debut novel of the year." - Vogue"A richly volatile study of grief, wonderment and love." - Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal"A startling, poignant debut." - The Atlantic "Raw and ravishing, this novel pulses with vulnerability...
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