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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman... |
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The color purple : a novel
Alice Walker - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Format: Book
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Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
Mark Haddon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic.... |
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Electric Arches
EVE L EWING - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating... |
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Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan Mcguire - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book
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Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...... |
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God in Pink
Namir, Hasan
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Lambda Literary Award winner, Best Gay FictionA revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Ammar is a sheikh whose guidance Ramy seeks, |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Modern Library/Random House
Format: Print book
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks,... |
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Life Of Pi
Charles E Stinnett
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg) , a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The |
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The Marriage of Opposites
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro... |
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides - Picador
Format: Paperback
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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent... |
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Pachinko
Min Jin Lee - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip image |
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Precious
Sapphire - Vintage; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIncludes a Reading Group GuidePrecious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when... |
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The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling "epic feminist fantasy perfect for fans of Game of Thrones" (Bustle) .A world divided.A queendom without an heir.An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen... |
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Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel
Casey McQuiston - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy -- this book had everything I crave. I'm jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina... |
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Say Say Say
Lila Savage - Random House Large Print
Format: Large Print
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"A gem of a book . . . lyrical, tender, and profoundly insightful."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneA beautiful, bracingly honest debut novel about the triangle formed between a young woman and the couple whose life she enters one transformative year: a story... |
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Spinning Silver
NAOMI NOVIK - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, called "a very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic" by The New York Times Book Review.Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders,... |
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon - Akashic Books
Format: Paperback
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"Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world. While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note polemic, the fully rounded characters bring nuance and genuine... |
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