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• The Three of Us

  a Novel

  Agbaje-Williams, Ore,

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  When a well-to-do British Nigerian couple and the wife's best friend drink way too much wine and whiskey, the fraught triangle of their relationship falls apart. (Kirkus)

• Coup De Grâce

  Ajram, Sofia

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  Taking the form of a disturbing, high-stakes choose-your-own-adventure novel, Arjam’s captivating debut explores loneliness and desolation. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Most

  Anthony, Jessica, 1974-

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  Can the secrets and misdeeds of a marriage be survived? The events of an unseasonably warm Sunday in November provide the backdrop for Anthony’s short, no-holds-barred account of a crucial juncture in the married life of a young couple in 1950s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This World Is Not Yours

  Ashing-Giwa, Kemi

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  This claustrophobic queer sci-fi horror hybrid from Ashing-Giwa focuses on the toxic love triangle between three characters—Amara, Vinh, and Jesse—as they come to terms with a terrible entity that haunts the planet they’ve been tasked with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Idle Grounds

  a Novel

  Bamford, Krystelle

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  A group of cousins searching for a missing child during a family gathering wander deeper into haunted woods, uncovering unsettling family secrets that challenge everything they know about their past, identity and inheritance. (NoveList)

• The Unworthy

  a Novel

  Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974-

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  As the world dies, the remnants of the patriarchy and their minions keep right on terrorizing the weak. (Kirkus)

• The River Has Roots

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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

• Eternal Summer

  Gänsler, Franziska, 1987-

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  Set in a German spa town wracked by climate change, this intense, enthralling debut explores trust, abuse, and solidarity through the unexpected bond between two women. (NoveList)

• The Last White Man

  Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-

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  A brilliantly realized allegory of racial transformation. Hamid’s latest opens with a scenario worthy of Kafka: A young man named Anders awakens “to find he [has] turned a deep and undeniable brown.” (Kirkus)

• Greek Lessons

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  A woman finds herself without language at the same time that her instructor slowly loses his eyesight...A stunning exploration of language, memory, and beauty from an internationally renowned writer. (Kirkus)

• Orbital

  Harvey, Samantha, 1975-

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  In this moving elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Season of the Swamp

  a Novel

  Herrera, Yuri, 1970-

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  In this mesmerizing picaresque, Herrera speculates about the 18 months future Mexican president Benito Juárez spent in New Orleans during his exile following a dispute with then-president Santa Anna. (Publishers Weekly)

• Hunchback

  a Novel

  Ichikawa, Saō, 1979-

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  Shaka has a congenital disorder and lives in a care home outside Tokyo, but her mind has no boundaries: She takes e-learning courses and publishes fantasies on websites, and when she offers a ton of money for a sperm donor, her nurse accepts the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foster

  Keegan, Claire

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  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)

• Only Smoke

  Millás García, Juan José, 1946-

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  When Carlos turns 18, his mother tells him that his estranged father, who left their home long ago, has recently been killed in a motorbike accident. Carlos inherits his father's book-filled apartment. Beside the bed is a well-worn copy of Grimms'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Touched

  a Novel

  Mosley, Walter

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  Martin Just awakens one Saturday morning from what feels like a years-long sleep with the knowledge that he is one of 107 people destined to stop humanity from destroying all life in existence. (Booklist)

• The Tusks of Extinction

  Nayler, Ray

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  When her digitized consciousness is downloaded into the mind of a mammoth, which have been resurrected, Dr. Damira Khismatullina, who was brutally murdered trying to defend the world’s last elephants, must teach them how to be mammoths to avoid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Automatic Noodle

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  In this semicozy tale set in a dystopian near future, robots open their own restaurant, build an unusual found family, and achieve personal growth. (Kirkus)

• Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

  Okri, Ben

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  Okri draws on A Midsummer Night’s Dream for an enchanting story of a masked ball in present-day France. (Publishers Weekly)

• Haunt Sweet Home

  Pinsker, Sarah

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  On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality, in a spooky ghost story from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. (NoveList)