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• Audition

  Kitamura, Katie, 1979-

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  "In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks."

• Goddess Complex

  a Novel

  Sathian, Sanjena,

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  "A darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting, Goddess Complex is a twist-filled psychological thriller and a feminist satire."

• Darkmotherland

  Upadhyay, Samrat,

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  "An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake-ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal."

• I Leave It Up to You

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo,

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  "A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes."

• The Railway Conspiracy

  Nee, John Shen Yen,

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  "Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in a rollicking new mystery set in 1920s London."

• Flirting With Disaster

  a Novel

  Kumar, Naina,

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  "With sharp observations about second chances at love, ambition and Indian American identity, and with characters who share an undeniable chemistry, Flirting with Disaster is a modern romance with the sensibility of a classic."

• Don't Sleep With the Dead

  Vo, Nghi,

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  "Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending."

• Blob

  a Love Story

  Su, Maggie,

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  "After getting dumped, lonely college dropout Vi Liu discovers a strange blob in an ally outside a bar and takes it home where she works with the increasingly sentient creature and molds it into her ideal partner."

• Strangers in the Land

  Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

  Luo, Michael,

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  "From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America."

• Kinda Korean

  Stories From An AmericanlLife

  Sung, Joan,

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  "A coming-of-age memoir about a daughter of immigrants discovering her Korean American identity while finding it in her heart to forgive her Tiger Mom."

• Four Ruined Realms

  Corland, Mai,

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  "The lies are bigger and the plots more treacherous when your favourite backstabbers return in the mind-blowing sequel to Mai Corland's epic adventure fantasy Five Broken Blades."

• Our Beautiful Boys

  a Novel

  Pandya, Sameer,

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  "Insightful and deeply human, Our Beautiful Boys is about race and class, parents trying to raise good boys in our fraught times, and the conflict we find when all of these slam together."

• The Family Recipe

  a Novel

  Huynh, Carolyn,

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  "A stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries."

• A Billion Butterflies

  a Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

  Shukla, J., 1944-

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  "The amazing true story of the man behind modern weather prediction."

• The Manor of Dreams

  a Novel

  Li, Christina,

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  "Told in dual timelines, spanning three generations, and brimming with forbidden romance, betrayal, ambition and sacrifice, The Manor of Dreams is a thrilling family gothic that examines the true cost of the American dream."

• Loud

  Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

  Afualo, Drew, 1995-

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  "Behind Afualo’s fearsome laugh is a mission and a life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out, and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the center of how women and femmes think about themselves."

• The Summer Guests

  a Martini Club Thriller

  Gerritsen, Tess,

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  "From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a chilling follow-up to The Spy Coast, plunging the Martini Club into the search for a missing teen—with a startling connection to their own pasts."

• The World of Nancy Kwan

  a Memoir by Hollywood's Asian Superstar

  Kwan, Nancy, 1939-

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  "A Hollywood icon and Asian superstar shares the inspiring story of her groundbreaking career."

• Homeseeking

  Chen, Karissa,

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  "From WWII to 2008, this deeply moving story follows one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland."

• Stone Angels

  a Novel

  Rho, Helena,

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  "Told through the bold, determined voices of three women, this poignant family drama explores love and loss, grief and healing, and the sometimes-difficult love that exists between mothers and daughters."