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• You Can Be the Last Leaf

  Selected Poems

  Abū al-Ḥayyāt, Māyā

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  Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat.

• Violeta

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  This sweeping novel tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.

• Brickmakers

  Almada, Selva, 1973-

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  Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love.

• We Know You Remember

  a Novel

  Alsterdal, Tove, 1960-

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  The past comes flooding back for police detective Eira Sjodin when Olof Hagstrm̲, who served time for raping and murdering a local girl, returns home to find his father dead under suspicious circumstances.

• Son of Svea

  a Tale of the People's Home

  Andersson, Lena, 1970-

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  In this family chronicle about the social transformations that unite and divide us, Ragnar Johansson, born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history, considers his mother a relic of the past as he embraces modernity until he has children…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Impossible Love

  Angot, Christine

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  Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. Subtle and suspenseful.

• Rahel Varnhagen

  the Life of a Jewish Woman

  Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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  Hannah Arendt's first book, largely completed when she went into exile from Germany in 1933, is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism.

• Boulder

  Baltasar, Eva

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  Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world--and in prose as brittle and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mister N

  Barakāt, Najwá

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  Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel -- he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Single Rose

  Barbery, Muriel, 1969-

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  From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.

• The Forgery

  Barrera, Ave, 1980-

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  A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins—Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragán, traversing late 20th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Linea Nigra

  An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

  Barrera Velázquez, Jazmina, 1988-

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  An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez.

• Lucky Breaks

  Belorusets, Yevgenia

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  Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Suiza

  Belpois, Bénédicte

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  A widower in a small village on the Galician countryside, Tomas, a successful farmer whose life has been tarnished by tragedy which has pushed him into isolation and loneliness, meets Suiza, a sensual woman whose provocative manner casts a spell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Had to Remove This Post

  Bervoets, Hanna, 1984-

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  A group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors--reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation--convince themselves they're in control ... until the violence strikes closer to home.

• Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost

  Birkjær, Betina

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  A beautiful, candid picture book for children to understand what happens when a loved one begins suffering from dementia, and how best to care for them.

• Enola Holmes

  the Graphic Novels, Book One

  Blasco, Serena

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  14-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life at the Bottom

  the Story of a Lonesome Axolotl

  Bondestam, Linda

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  A new kind of climate change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl [a type of salamander], possibly the last of its kind.

• It Must Be a Misunderstanding

  Bracho, Coral

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  The acclaimed Mexican poet's most personal and emotive collection to date, dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer's, and who comes clear to us not as a tragic figure, but as a fiery and independent personality.

• Empty Wardrobes

  Carvalho, Maria Judite de

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  A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature originally published in 1966, Carvalho's tale of fading grief, new life, and quiet devastation lays bare the limitations of patriarchal love and the ambient savageries perched and waiting in…Read moreRead more of this annotation