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The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni - Modern Library
Format: Book

"An important new translation [of] a bona fide canonical classic hiding in plain sight . . . With Mr. Moore's vigorous and companionable translation, the book is now here for everyone to see." - The Wall Street Journal

The timeless masterpiece from Alessandro Manzoni,...

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The Hero of This Book

ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN - ?Ecco
Format: Book

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer's relationship with her larger-than-life mother - and about the very nature of writing, memory, and art

Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The...

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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback

In twelve unforgettable tales, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange: a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world...

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The Nature of Fragile Things

Susan Meissner - ?Berkley
Format: Paperback

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that...

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Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Grove Press, Black Cat
Format: Paperback

In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists -- he a photographer, she a dancer -- and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects...

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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Bushra Rehman - Flatiron Books
Format: Book

Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's heart is broken. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community....

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This Thing Between Us

Gus Moreno - MCD x FSG Originals
Format: Paperback

"As original as it is affecting . . . left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book."

"Hold on, this isn't a ride, it's a slide, and it doesn't care whether you're ready or not." It was Vera's idea...

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