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An ambitious, emotional novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives in nineteenth-century Australia.
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Fifty Words for Rain
by Asha Lemmie
“A lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale
This sweeping saga takes readers from Kyoto and Tokyo to Paris and London and back and will have you holding your breath through its stunning conclusion.
Discovery of the Month
by Asha Lemmie
“A lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale
This sweeping saga takes readers from Kyoto and Tokyo to Paris and London and back and will have you holding your breath through its stunning conclusion.
By Wayétu Moore
An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States
When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai.
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By Aiden Thomas
A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas’s paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as “groundbreaking.”
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.