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• Why Fathers Cry at Night

  a Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life in the Sunshine

  Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family

  Ayers, Nabil

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  A memoir about one man's journey to connect with his absentee musician father, ultimately redefining what family really means.

• Wolfish

  Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

  Berry, Erica (Writer)

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  An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf In this enthralling, kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves both real and symbolic, Erica Berry weaves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Beauty in the World

  the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

  Bringley, Patrick

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  A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

• The Wise Hours

  a Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls

  Darlington, Miriam

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  Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shark Heart

  a Love Story

  Habeck, Emily

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  For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

  Hanks, Tom

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  From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hula

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani

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  Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Reclamation

  Heng, Rachel

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  A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his larger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Best Intentions

  Jain, Vibhuti

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  An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation in this pulsating debut, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You and Ask Again, Yes.

• Benevolence

  Janson, Julie

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  A young Darug girl is sent to the Parramatta Native School after white settlers begin to arrive and claim the continent for the British Empire and flees, searching for a safe place in an increasingly unfamiliar world.

• Portrait of a Thief

  Li, Grace D.

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  Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

  Jimenez, Claire

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  A powerful debut novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford), of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joy Ride

  a Bike Odyssey From Alaska to Argentina

  Jokinen, Kristen

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  Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met scuba diving in Vietnam and fell in love. She was a real estate agent from Oregon, and he a financial analyst for Toyota in his native Finland. After hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from the border of Mexico to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Fed to the Manticore

  Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi, 1979-

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  In stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world. Through nine emotionally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Witches

  Lozano, Brenda, 1981-

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  Journalist ZóГe comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma. Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sun Walks Down

  McFarlane, Fiona, 1978-

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  The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"-- In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shubeik Lubeik

  Muhamed, Dīnā

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  A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishes are real. Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mountain in the Sea

  Nayler, Ray

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  Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation