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• My Unforgotten Seattle

  Chew, Ron

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  Nonfiction. In this 2020 memoir, Ron Chew shares “memories of growing up in Seattle as the son of parents who immigrated from China, and of the many people who have helped shape the communities that have too often been ignored.”…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plain Bad Heroines

  a Novel

  Danforth, Emily M.

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  Fiction. To say that the Brookhaunts School for Girls has a cursed history would be an understatement of outrageous proportions, but watching that history unfold in Danforth's immersive novel is a creepy pleasure from start to finish.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Share of Night

  a Novel

  Enriquez, Mariana

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  Fiction. In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home, where they must confront the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cuba

  An American History

  Ferrer, Ada

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  Nonfiction. A fluid, consistently informative history of the long, inextricable link between Cuba and the U.S., well rendered by a veteran Cuban American historian. (Kirkus)

• The Third Person

  Grove, Emma (Animator)

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  Nonfiction. Writer and animator Grove’s debut graphic memoir portrays her youth coming to terms with her sexuality and gender dysphoria. (Kirkus) GN

• The 1619 Project

  a New Origin Story

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  Nonfiction. A book-length expansion of the New York Times Magazine issue that explores the history of slavery in America and its countless toxic consequences. Those readers open to fresh and startling interpretations of history will find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

  a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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  Nonfiction. United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology...[which] celebrates the indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Iliad

  Homer

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  A masterful, highly readable rendering of the Greek classic…a bloody tale of ancient war and grief comes to vibrant life in modern-day English. (Kirkus)

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

  a Novel

  Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-

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  Fiction. Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself. (Catalog description)

• The Book That Wouldn't Burn

  Lawrence, Mark, 1966-

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  Fiction. An aspiring librarian and a young man trapped in her library attempt to unravel its mysteries in this tightly paced fantasy. (Kirkus)

• Bubblegum

  a Novel

  Levin, Adam

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  Fiction. In an alternate future with no internet but instead interactive technology called Curio, 38-year-old Belt Magnet is living with his widowed father and utterly absorbed by Curio and his books when a simple trip to the bank explodes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Love

  a Novel

  Link, Kelly

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  Fiction. In a small town in the middle of the night, the spirits of three dead students and one interloper have escaped death's realm by methods as mysterious as the cause of their deaths. Two of them will live, two of them will die, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shubeik Lubeik

  Muḥammad, Dīnā

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  Fiction. At an unassuming street stall in Egypt, store owner Shokry has stocked something special: three first-class wishes. The book unfolds across three stories, each revolving around how one of the wishes is bought and used. (School…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Form and Emptiness

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  Fiction. A boy who hears objects talking and his mother, who can’t stop hoarding things, work out their destinies in a meditative tribute to books, libraries, and Zen wisdom. (Kirkus)

• Same Bed Different Dreams

  a Novel

  Park, Ed, 1970-

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  Fiction. A secret history of Korea from the 20th century to the present, suffused with postmodern weirdness. (Kirkus)

• The Dead Are Arising

  the Life of Malcolm X

  Payne, Les, 1941-2018

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  Nonfiction. A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let the Record Show

  a Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

  Schulman, Sarah, 1958-

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  Nonfiction. Few activist organizations of the late 20th century have had the impact of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Novelist and playwright Schulman was herself intimately involved in the group, and has written a deeply…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Name Is Barbra

  Streisand, Barbra

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  Nonfiction. The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jasmine Throne

  Suri, Tasha

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  Fiction. Set in a world inspired by historical India, The Jasmine Throne begins a sweeping new epic fantasy trilogy in which a captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies--and eventually, much…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Colors

  Tagame, Gengorō, 1964-

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  Fiction. Tagame tells the story of an artist dreamer named Sora Itoda struggling to negotiate high school as a young gay man, who keeps up the pretense that friend Nao is his girlfriend until he meets openly gay Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged…Read moreRead more of this annotation