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  • The World After Rain: Anne’s Poem

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    A Carol Shields Prize winner for her collection of fictions Code Noir, Canisia Lubrin now brings readers a long-form poetic tribute to her mother, praised by Dionne Brand as “incandescent”

    In this stu

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    • Author: Lubrin, Canisia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1593768192
    • Language: English
  • The Flowers of Good: The Science and the History of Marijuana Liberation

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    A hypnotizing investigation with decolonial undertones that aims to destigmatize marijuana from a scientific and cultural perspective

    Cannabis’s recent history has been marked by politically motivated

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    • Author: Ribeiro, Sidarta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 27 2026
    • ISBN10: 1593768117
    • Language: English
  • Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury

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    This “tender biography of a sickly marmoset that was adopted by Leonard Woolf and became a fixture of Bloomsbury society” (The New York Times) is an intimate portrait of the life and marriage of Leona[more below]

    • Author: Nunez, Sigrid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 06 2019
    • ISBN10: 1593765827
    • Language: English
  • Plastic: A Poem

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    Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in an injection molding factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet

    Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis,

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    • Author: Rice, Matthew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 1593768036
    • Language: English
  • When the Museum Is Closed

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    A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a Void

    Rika Horauchi’s new part-time

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    • Author: Yagi, Emi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 27 2026
    • ISBN10: 1593768273
    • Language: English
  • Carnaval Fever

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    A young girl growing up in an Afro-descendant community of Ecuador in the 1990s confronts familial secrets and the ever-present specter of male violence, set against the vibrant background of Carnaval[more below]

    • Author: Ruano, Yuliana Ortiz
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593768095
    • Language: English
  • The Third Love

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    A time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present–from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in th[more below]

    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593768052
    • Language: English
  • Greyhound: A Memoir

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    Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood, and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when [more below]

    • Author: Pocock, Joanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: August 12 2025
    • ISBN10: 159376801X
    • Language: English
  • Curandera

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    Set between seventeenth-century Cape Verde and contemporary London, CURANDERA is a kaleidoscopic story of rebirth and redemption, and a mythic tale of metamorphic recalibrations across time

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    • Author: Okojie, Irenosen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767846
    • Language: English
  • Resting Bitch Face: Poems

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    An Audacious Book Club Pick

    The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times returns with a poetry collection that transforms the Black female speaker from obje

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    • Author: Byas, Taylor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 26 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767870
    • Language: English
  • Code Noir: Fictions

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    Winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

    Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate. These stories are magic and you must enter them as if you, too, are wondrous.” –Dionne Brand

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    • Author: Lubrin, Canisia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: February 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 159376796X
    • Language: English
  • How the Dead Dream

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    A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who’s been d[more below]

    • Author: Millet, Lydia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593767900
    • Language: English
  • Users

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    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

    Marrying the philosophical absurdities of life, technology, start-up culture, and family, Users is for readers of Ling Ma, Dave Eggers’s The Circle, and vi

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    • Author: Winnette, Colin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593767692
    • Language: English
  • Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

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    Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this “shattering and beautiful” time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly).

    Oh Pur

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    • Author: Millet, Lydia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1593767897
    • Language: English
  • Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

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    A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review).

    Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged

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    • Author: Saro-Wiwa, Noo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 21 2012
    • ISBN10: 1619020076
    • Language: English
  • We, the Casertas

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    From prize-winning author Aurora Venturini, a Gothic masterpiece following a gifted Argentine girl who left for Europe in search of meaning, and the relentless punishments of womanhood in the 1940s

    In

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    • Author: Venturini, Aurora
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 13 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767315
    • Language: English
  • Fresh, Green Life

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    After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy night

    After experiencing

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    • Author: Castillo, Sebastian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 24 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767919
    • Language: English
  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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    • Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593768079
    • Language: English
  • Ekho: A Poem in Three Parts

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    A profoundly playful poem in three parts, this work considers the echo as a social and historical phenomenon.

    From Ekhō, the nymph of Greek mythology whose voice was stolen by the gods, to the ad

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    • Author: Orlando, Roslyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767986
    • Language: English
  • I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both

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    • Author: Stovall, Mariah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1593767935
    • Language: English
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