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pink by Kyoko Okazaki, translated by Vertical, Inc.
Well, goodness gracious, looks sure can be deceiving: here’s your official warning – this dressed up girl is anything but saccharine-sweet, that pink-toned cover comes printed with an “18+” warning,...
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Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person,” Anne Tyler’s oldie-but-goodie begins, especially enhanced with the inimitable Blair Brown as welcome, familiar...
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Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier, illustrated by...
Preorder this title now and you can stop reading here … you won’t, you can’t, you will not be disappointed. Oh, fine. If you’re still with me, let me tell you about Elsa, a little girl who just can’t...
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The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Hauntings, posthumous marriage proposals, addictions, not-quite-human heroes, in-between spirits growing old, burnt offerings that are actually real in another world. Interest piqued? Get ready for...
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Author Profile: Vaddey Ratner
“To transform suffering into art”: Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan While the Vietnam War ended for the United States with the April 1975 military withdrawal, death and destruction...
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I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
*STARRED REVIEW “I do not specifically reveal the era or elucidate Korea’s political situation,” writes Kyung-sook Shin, recipient of the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize for Please Look After Mom, in the...
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With or Without You by Domenica Ruta
Ah, well … who needs enemies when you have relatives like debut author Domenica Ruta? ‘Dysfunctional’ sounds nearly sane after meeting Ruta’s family on the page or stuck in the ears – choosing the...
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Ripper by Isabel Allende, translated by Ollie Brock and Frank Wynne
Just as her latest book was hitting shelves, the near-deified Isabel Allende opened mouth, inserted foot during an interview on NPR and set off a firestorm of negative reaction. On mysteries, she...
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Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj
Okay, so what are the chances?! Varsha Bajaj‘s exuberant debut middle grade novel begins with a food allergy that sends her teen protagonist, the titular Abby Spencer, to the ER with an anaphylactic...
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The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
First, a few details to address before we get to award-winning Lauren Groff‘s down-the-rabbit-hole, delightfully convoluted debut novel … If you choose to go audible, the publishing world offers two...
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Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated...
Christy Jordan-Fenton and her mother-in-law Margaret Pokiak-Fenton began publishing stories in 2010 about the older Pokiak-Fenton’s difficult childhood as a young Inuit child growing up in Canada’s...
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This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Canadian cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki‘s first collaboration, Skim, won enough major awards to make their second title an eagerly anticipated publishing event. Get ready because This One...
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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Suspend your disbelief before you open this book (or stick in your ears, so energetically read by actor Lynn Chen). You might also consider duct-taping your jaw shut because Manhattan-based Singaporean...
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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver
The timing is horrifyingly surreal: capital punishment emerged as a major topic this week, from the tragically innocent, to the mistreated guilty – and somehow, unrelatedly, I managed to choose this...
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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
*STARRED REVIEW Celeste Ng’s debut is one of those aching stories about which the reader knows so much more than any of the characters, even as each yearns for the unknowable truth. “Lydia is dead,”...
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