TALE OF THE DREAMER'S SON
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Skin is thicker than blood In what was once a Scottish tea planter’s mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That is, until the occupants of what is now known as the Muhibbah Centre for World Peace are joined by Salmah,…
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Richard Powers
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DR. NO
Percival Everett
The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is…
THE GOLDEN COUPLE
Greer Hendricks
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THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA
TJ Klune
Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy. Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of…
THE SECOND LIFE OF MIRIELLE WEST
Amanda Skenandore
A story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s based on the little-known history of Carville, America’s only leper colony, by RUSA Award-winning author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore. Based on the little-known true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West by RUSA Award-winning author…
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THE POET X
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Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the…
GHOST BOYS
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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