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• Cold Enough for Snow

  Au, Jessica,

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  Fiction. In Australian author Au's deceptively simple second novel, a mother and daughter meet in Japan to spend time traveling together. (Kirkus)

• Changing My Mind

  Barnes, Julian

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  Nonfiction. In these engaging and erudite essays, critically acclaimed writer Julian Barnes explores what is involved when we change our minds: about words, about politics, about books, about memories, about age and time. (Publisher description)

• Cosmic Thing

  Crighton, Pete

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  Nonfiction. ‘Rock Lobster’ hit music writer Crighton ‘like an electric jolt’ when he first heard it at age 10, in 1979, leading to a lifelong love for the B-52's ‘cool’ and ‘campy’ music, and culminating in this breathless paean to the band.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The English Understand Wool

  DeWitt, Helen, 1957-

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  Fiction. DeWitt delivers an explosive rebuke to sensationalistic American publishing in this smart and multilayered story. (Publishers Weekly)

• The River Has Roots

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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  Fiction. Two sisters fight their way back to each other across death and Faerie through riddle songs and murder ballads. (Kirkus)

• Recovery

  the Lost Art of Convalescence

  Francis, Gavin

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  Nonfiction. In this succinct and perceptive outing, Francis shares insights into the healing process gleaned over his 30-plus years as a general practitioner. (Publishers Weekly)

• On Bullshit

  Frankfurt, Harry G., 1929-2023,

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  Nonfiction. The anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying. Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit is a small book that explains a great deal about our time. (Publisher description)

• The New Book

  Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things

  Giovanni, Nikki

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  Nonfiction. This life-affirming posthumous collection from Giovanni features her recent poems as well as letters, lists, excerpts from interviews, and other prose pieces which run the gamut from mini-essays to diaristic writing. (Publishers Weekly)

• My Lesbian Novel

  Gladman, Renee

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  Fiction. The scintillating and unclassifiable latest from Gladman takes the form of an interview with a writer named Renee Gladman about her attempt to write a lesbian romance. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Future of Truth

  Herzog, Werner, 1942-

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  Nonfiction. ‘All my life, my work has been involved with the central issue of truth,’ [film director] Herzog writes in this brief collection of essays. . . In these impassioned pieces, he offers his insights into the threats to the concept of truth.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cracks We Bear

  Infante, Catalina, 1984-

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  Fiction. Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. (Publishers Weekly)

• Water

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273,

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  Nonfiction/Poetry. Gafori’s excellent second collection of Rumi translations (after Gold) thrums with the beatific energy of divine and romantic love, as well as a deep yearning for community and peace. (Publishers Weekly)

• No One Else

  Johnson, R. Kikuo

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  Fiction Graphic Novel. In two-tone panels punctuated by spare dialogue and splashes of sunset orange, Johnson tells an achingly realistic story of a Hawaiian family reeling in grief. (Publishers Weekly)

• Foster

  Keegan, Claire

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  Fiction. This charming novella from Irish writer Keegan follows a young girl who’s unceremoniously dropped off by her rapscallion father to live on an older couple’s farm in the early 1980s. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Salt Grows Heavy

  Khaw, Cassandra

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  Fiction. In this viciously dark fantasy, a horrific siren who can’t speak, thanks to a cruel husband who captured her and cut out her tongue, and a plague doctor who has watched the kingdom succumb to a plague impossible for them to stop leave their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 1953-

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  Nonfiction. Kimmerer, drawing from her Potawatomi heritage, uses the abundant serviceberry to demonstrate the gifts that the natural world provides, highlighting the ‘enoughness’ of these gifts if we choose to view them as such. (Kirkus)

• A Parish Chronicle

  Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998

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  Fiction. Laxness (1902–1998), the Nobel-winning author of Independent People, exhibits his interests in myth and the natural world in this humble tale of villagers defending their church from demolition. (Publishers Weekly)

• Against Breaking

  on the Power of Poetry

  Limón, Ada

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  Nonfiction. In April 2025, as her closing lecture as the 24th poet laureate of the United States, Limón, a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, celebrates the power of poetry to inspire, illuminate, and transform. (Kirkus)

• To Save and to Destroy

  Writing as An Other

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  Nonfiction. This trenchant compendium of lectures by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Nguyen expounds on ‘what it means to write and read from the position of an other.’ (Publishers Weekly)

• The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store. 1

  Nishimura, Tsuchika, 1984-

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  Fiction Graphic Novel. Akino, a human, has just begun working at the exclusive Hokkyoku Department Store, where she must cater to the needs of various animals—including extinct ones! (BookList)