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1) The namesake
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Jhumpa Lahiri brings to her terrifically poignant first novel the remarkable powers of emotion. The Namesake enriches and expands on her signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake journeys with the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in India through their fraught transformation into Americans. Ashoke Ganguli arrives in Massachusetts...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Book of Wanderers is a collection of short stories that explores Latinx identity through the lens of newer generations of Mexican and Salvadoran diasporas to the US. The theme of wandering comes up in each story, whether it be through feelings of unease or liberation, especially due to the cultural, physical, and/or psychological separation or loss from one generation to the next as a result of living in a tumultuous nation. To capture the complexity...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into the complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multi-racial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love,...
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English
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"The uncannily relevant, deliciously clear-eyed collected stories of a critically acclaimed, award-winning "American literary treasure" (Boston Globe), ripe for rediscovery--with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout. From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer--now 90 years old and at the top of her game--has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who "raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height." (Washington Post)...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast. Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son near Damnation Grove, a swath of ancient redwoods on which Rich's employer, Sanderson Timber Co., plans to make a killing. In 1977, with most of the forest cleared or protected, a grove like Damnation--and beyond it 24-7 Ridge--is a logger's dream. It's dangerous...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what...
8) Gamechanger
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The bounceback volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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First there was the Setback. Then came the Clawback. Now we thrive. Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation. The first to be raised free of the troubles of the late twenty-first century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. Luce is a firebrand and has made a name for himself as a naysayer. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy....
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Generations trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"In Alive, Scott Sigler introduced readers to an unforgettable young heroine and a mysterious new world reminiscent of those of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising. Now he expands his singular vision in the next thrilling novel of this powerful sci-fi adventure series"--
"M. Savage -- or Em, as she is called-- has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with...
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Mice of the Round Table volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
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English
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Young mouse Calib Christopher dreams of becoming a Knight of the Round Table. For generations, his family has led the mice who live just out of sight of the humans, defending Camelot from enemies both big and small. But when Calib and his friend Cecily discover that a new threat is gatheringone that could catch even the Two-Leggers unawareit is up to them to unmask the real enemy, unite their forces, and save the castle they all call home....
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Publisher
Page Street publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women―the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market―until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and...
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Sheriff Luke McWhorter novels volume 2
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Sheriff Luke McWhorter is back with another sharp supernatural procedural. It was not Luke McWhorter’s plan to become a law enforcement officer when he left for Yale Divinity School. But three generations of his family had worn the star, and after graduation, the needs of his community called him home to serve and protect. His theological training and his seventeen-year career as sheriff suddenly collide when bodies start piling up in Flagler,...
13) Kinning
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Everfair volume 2
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes’ stories are far from done. Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality―the very ideals that led to Everfair’s founding. Meanwhile, Everfair’s Princess...
14) Goodnight moon
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English
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Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
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Publisher
Talonbooks
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women - engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers - all employees of an international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Their collective effort to complete the megaproject recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate - and to radically transform - our world through built form, with all the dramatic tension...
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training,...
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Thunder Child prophecy series volume 2
Publisher
7th Generation
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Cherokee teen Billy Buckhorn had no idea what was in store for him when Osage teen Lisa Lookout and her family showed up on his doorstep. A tribal prophecy, carried by their family for a thousand years, indicates Billy is the long-awaited Chosen One, and that he is destined to battle dark ancient forces that are planning to retake control of the Middleworld. As Billy comes to accept his prophesied new role, he must also learn to accept that he and...
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Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
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Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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"New Bad News is a collection of smart, cynical micro-fictions about falling out of love with America's Hollywood dream. Its deadpan humor and ironic touches will ring especially true to Gen-X and X-ennial readers. There's an undeniable "cool factor" to the collection; it's the sort of book that dares the reader to get all its pop-culture references. NBN is organized into five sections: "Echo Park" is a Calvino-Prize-winning series of micro-fictions...
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Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Can a long-forgotten song bring the snow back to Freya's town? A lyrical fable from award-winning creators Jon-Erik Lappano and Byron Eggenschwiler. Freya has always loved the snow and the way it covers everything like powdered sugar. But the snow hasn't come to her town for two winters, and she's starting to forget what it looks and feels like. When will it be cold? When will it snow again? One day Freya finds a snow globe at the market. It plays...
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