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Title: Lima : Limón

Lima:: Limón traces machismo, womanhood, and culture across borders, raising questions to the gods while finding answers within the flesh.

Author(s): Natalie Scenters-Zapico

ISBN 13: 9781556595318
Pages: 80

Title: The Tradition

The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era.

Author(s): Jericho Brown

ISBN 13: 9781556596025
Pages: 96

Title: Feed

Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy.

Author(s): Tommy Pico

ISBN 13: 9781947793576
Pages: 84

Title: 1919

Presents a collection of poems that looks at the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.

Author(s): Eve L. Ewing

ISBN 13: 9781608466023
Pages: 88

Title: The Nickel Boys

Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Author(s): Colson Whitehead

ISBN 13: 9780385537070
Pages: 224

Title: Olive, Again

A New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, who struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine.

Author(s): Elizabeth Strout

ISBN 13: 9780812996548
Pages: 304

Title: Gingerbread

"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel."--

Author(s): Helen Oyeyemi

ISBN 13: 9781594634659
Pages: 272

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Title: On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read.

Author(s): Ocean Vuong

ISBN 13: 9780525562023
Pages: 256

Title: Nothing to See Here

It all seems impossible to manage, but Lillian soon accepts that she and the children need each other, urgently and fiercely.With a white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written a most unusual story of deep parental love ...

Author(s): Kevin Wilson

ISBN 13: 9780062913463
Pages: 288

Title: Women Talking

Based on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women's all-female symposium, Toews's masterful novel uses wry, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.

Author(s): Miriam Toews

ISBN 13: 9781635572582
Pages: 240

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Title: Machines Like Me

"[Set] in an alternative 1980s London.

Author(s): Ian McEwan

ISBN 13: 9780385545112
Pages: 352

Title: Patsy

Passionate, moving, and fiercely urgent, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans.One of the "Most Anticipated Books of the Summer": Entertainment Weekly ...

Author(s): Nicole Dennis-Benn

ISBN 13: 9781631495632
Pages: 432

Title: The Book of X

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot.

Author(s): Sarah Rose Etter

ISBN 13: 9781937512811
Pages: 284

Title: The World Doesnt Require You

As the book builds to its finish with Special Topics in Loneliness Studies, a fully-realized novella, two unhinged professors grapple with hugely different ambitions, and the reader comes to appreciate the intricacy of the world Scott has ...

Author(s): Rion Amilcar Scott

ISBN 13: 9781631495380
Pages: 384

Title: The Dutch House

Patchett, the New York Times-bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with a moving story exploring the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.

Author(s): Ann Patchett

ISBN 13: 9780062963673
Pages: 352

Title: Your House Will Pay

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in LA, following two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los ...

Author(s): Steph Cha

ISBN 13: 9780062868855
Pages: 272

Title: Fly Already

From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heartbreaking collection.

Author(s): Etgar Keret

ISBN 13: 9781594633270
Pages: 224

Title: Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

A wide-ranging debut collection from a writer whose musicality and humor shine through even when plumbing the darkest depths of space

Author(s): Sarah Pinsker

ISBN 13: 9781618731555
Pages: 288

Title: Everything Inside

This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart--a master at her best.

Author(s): Edwidge Danticat

ISBN 13: 9780525521273
Pages: 240

Title: The Tenth Muse

Forced to confront some of the most consequential events of the twentieth century and rethink everything she knows of herself, she strives to take her place in the world of higher mathematics and finds kinship in the stories of the women ...

Author(s): Catherine Chung

ISBN 13: 9780062574060
Pages: 304

Title: All This Could Be Yours

"From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?"--

Author(s): Jami Attenberg

ISBN 13: 9780544824256
Pages: 304

Title: The Topeka School

Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of a family, its struggles and its strengths: Jane’s reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan’s marital transgressions, the challenge of ...

Author(s): Ben Lerner

ISBN 13: 9780374277789
Pages: 304

Title: Lot

"Phenomenal" --Justin Torres, author of We the Animals "Brilliant" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Nylon, Huffington Post, AV Club, The ...

Author(s): Bryan Washington

ISBN 13: 9780525533672
Pages: 240

Title: The Man Who Saw Everything

As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly.

Author(s): Deborah Levy

ISBN 13: 9781632869845
Pages: 240

Title: In West Mills

Spanning decades in a rural North Carolina town where a canal acts as the color line, In West Mills is a magnificent, big-hearted small-town story about family, friendship, storytelling, and the redemptive power of love.

Author(s): DeShawn Charles Winslow

ISBN 13: 9781635573404
Pages: 272

Title: The Yellow House

A brilliant, haunting, and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

Author(s): Sarah M. Broom

ISBN 13: 9780802125088
Pages: 304

Title: Say Nothing

"A narrative about a notorious killing that took place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and its devastating repercussions to this day"--

Author(s): Patrick Radden Keefe

ISBN 13: 9780385521314
Pages: 441

Title: Survival Math

This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Jackson, his family, and his ...

Author(s): Mitchell Jackson

ISBN 13: 9781501131707
Pages: 336

Title: The Queen

The Queen tells, for the first time, the fascinating story of what was done to Linda Taylor, what she did to others, and what was done in her name.

Author(s): Josh Levin

ISBN 13: 9780316513302
Pages: 336

Title: Good Talk

"Snippets of dialogue between Jacob...and her family and friends form the basis of this breezy but poignant graphic memoir that takes on racism, love, and the election of President Trump."--

Author(s): Mira Jacob

ISBN 13: 9780399589041
Pages: 355

Title: The Collected Schizophrenias

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and ...

Author(s): Esmé Weijun Wang

ISBN 13: 9781555978273
Pages: 224

Title: Wild Game

On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend.

Author(s): Adrienne Brodeur

ISBN 13: 9781328519030
Pages: 256

Title: How We Fight for Our Lives

Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.

Author(s): Saeed Jones

ISBN 13: 9781501132735
Pages: 208

Title: In the Dream House

And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines ...

Author(s): Carmen Maria Machado

ISBN 13: 9781644450031
Pages: 224

Title: Homesick

The coming-of-age story of an award-winning translator in gorgeous, precise prose, with full-color photographs throughout. "A gorgeous and stunningly visceral memoir of heartbreak and love."--Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coinin

Author(s): Jennifer Croft

ISBN 13: 9781944700942
Pages: 256

Title: The World According to Fannie Davis

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).

Author(s): Bridgett M. Davis

ISBN 13: 9780316558730
Pages: 320

Title: Library of Small Catastrophes

Alison Rollins, a librarian by trade, disrupts the canon by re-cataloging language, culture, and history in her debut collection.

Author(s): Alison C. Rollins

ISBN 13: 9781556595394
Pages: 96

Title: Magical Negro

Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics--of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience.

Author(s): Morgan Parker

ISBN 13: 9781947793187
Pages: 112