New Books in Literature
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Rachel Genn, "What You Could Have Won" (And Oth...
What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories, 2020) is a novel about resilience and self-discovery in the face of control....
28 min
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P. Djèlí Clark, "Ring Shout" (Tordotcom, 2020)
Ring Shout (Tordotcom, 2020) is a fantasy built around an ugly moment in American history—the emergence of the second Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century....
29 min
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Deni Ellis Bechard, "A Song from Faraway" (Milk...
A young man visits his half-brother in Vancouver and steals a book that changes his life...
34 min
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Lisa B. Thompson, "Underground, Monroe, and the...
Lisa B. Thompson is equally renowned as a scholar of African and African-American studies and as a playwright...
57 min
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Anne Louise Bannon, "Death of the Chinese Field...
Solving murders is just a past-time, but luckily, she has a keen eye for details and knows what it means when a boot print with a gaping hole is discovered near the bodies of several Chinese workers....
28 min
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Heather Lende, "Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaska...
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...
62 min
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Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Lo...
Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...
62 min
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Shakira Croce, "Leave It Raw" (Finishing Line P...
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence...
30 min
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Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun...
The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son...
53 min
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Eshkol Nevo, "The Last Interview" (Other Press,...
In The Last Interview, a famous but stressed Israeli writer finds that the only way he can write is by answering a set of interview questions sent from a website...
36 min
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Jennie Fields, "Atomic Love" (G. P. Putnam's So...
Inspired by Leona Woods, the only woman who worked on the Manhattan Project, Atomic Love (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020) tells the story of Rosalind Porter, a physicist recruited by Enrico Fermi to join his team at the University of Chicago...
26 min
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Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Vo...
In a set up reminiscent of the show Orphan Black, four feisty young women struggle to make their way in the world, unaware that they are related...
26 min
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Melissa Valentine, "The Names of All the Flower...
Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.
56 min
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Jasper Fforde, "The Constant Rabbit" (Viking, 2...
In Jasper Fforde’s "The Constant Rabbit," residents of the United Kingdom live among human-sized anthropomorphized rabbits...
41 min
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Andrew Krivak, “The Bear” (Bellevue Literary Pr...
In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain....
59 min
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Sergio Troncoso, "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’...
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.”
32 min
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P. K. Adams, "Midnight Fire" (Iron Knight Press...
Set at the glittering Italianate court of King Zygmunt I of Poland/Lithuania and his son, Zygmunt August, these books map fictional plots onto real historical incidents to create fast-paced, fluid stories that are as much about the tensions of a culture in transition as what drives a person to commit murder....
29 min
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Kelly Harris-DeBerry, "Freedom Knows My Name" (...
Kelly Harris-DeBerry creates the world anew from scraps of memories and rhythm...
46 min
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Corey Sobel, "The Red Shirt" (UP of Kentucky, 2...
At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player...
39 min
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Carly Israel, "Seconds and Inches" (Jaded Ibis ...
In the opening sentence of her introduction, Israel writes, “My last name, Israel, means one who wrestles with God. And wrestling is all I know.”
57 min
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Jessica Gross, "Hysteria" (Unnamed Press, 2020)
Jessica Gross is a valuable ally. An intuitive reader of Freud her debut novel--Hysteria (Unnamed Press, 2020)--embraces Oedipal conflict, unconscious fantasy, and voracious sexuality...
44 min
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Linda Stewart Henley, "Estelle" (She Writes Pre...
Most people think of Edgar Degas as a French painter of ballerinas. But few have heard that his mother came from New Orleans or that he spent five months in that city between October 1872 and February 1873...
34 min
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Silviana Wood, "Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays" ...
Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre...
42 min
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Tracy Clark, "What You Don't See" (Kensington, ...
Cass Raines left the Chicago Police force after a morally bankrupt cop nearly got her killed...
26 min
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Ann Dávila Cardinal, "Five Midnights" (Tor Teen...
Ann Dávila Cardinal writes stories that thrill you. She writes about lives that face challenge and find a way through, despite the horror that chases them. She writes about Puerto Rico and trauma and belonging somewhere...
48 min