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| | In a recent interview for Bookselling This Week, novelist Laura Dave (The First Time I Saw Him) expressed her relationship to books as "a coming home. I love them more than anything.... Every town I go to, the indie bookstore is the first place I go."
I can certainly relate, although a bookstore isn't often my first stop when I travel, typically having lugged three books around since leaving home: one I'm in the middle of, one I'm excited to start, and a backup just in case the second doesn't meet expectations. Nevertheless, I will absolutely veer into the first indie I notice as if it held the meaning of life itself. Which, as far as I'm concerned, is true. The only real question is how much of life's meaning will fit in my carry on for the return trip.
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 | | Patchwork Dolls: Stories | | | Ysabelle Cheung |
| | | Ysabelle Cheung's remarkable debut collection, Patchwork Dolls, presents 10 stories of women facing challenges simultaneously somehow both familiar and fantastical.
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| | The Vanishing Sea: The Tale of How the Aral Sea Became the Aral Desert | | | Dinara Mirtalipova |
| | | Young readers learn about the once-grand Aral Sea and the devastating loss of its resources in this stunningly illustrated, thoroughly informative picture book.
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| | Warning Sign | | | Tracy Sierra |
| | | A boy faces a variety of dangers when he enters deep snow and high mountains with his father in this enthralling novel of horror, suspense, and psychological intrigue.
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| | Frog: And Other Essays | | | Anne Fadiman |
| | | Anne Fadiman's gracefully written third essay collection displays her characteristic blend of erudition and entertainment.
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| | | | | | Danish author Helle Helle's they is a beautifully crafted literary gem that explores the intricacies of a mother-daughter relationship.
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| | | | One Sun Only is a nuanced and compulsively readable collection of stories powered by everyday absurdity and accentuated by ironic, observational humor.
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| | | | Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes's captivating second novel tells the story of a sacred Hawaiian stone and the women tasked with protecting it.
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| | | | Jonathan Miles's taut, powerful fable pits an everyman against seemingly insurmountable environmental and personal problems.
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| | | | In this insightful historical novel, a young queer woman at a Chicago detective agency tries to prove a poor single mother's innocence in the killing of a reporter.
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| | | | Heather McBreen's Sunk in Love follows Roslyn and Liam as they set sail and fake date their way to insatiable chemistry, heartfelt understanding, and a second chance at love.
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| | | | Sri Lankan American attorney Yosha Gunasekera cleverly and convincingly introduces a New York City cab driver and public defender working together to solve a backseat murder.
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| | | | Akira Kurosawa's Long Take, published posthumously in Japan in 1999 and translated into English by Anne McKnight, is an indispensable companion to the director's work.
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| | | | In this disquieting, exquisitely written YA novel, a teen tries to raise awareness about the huge corporation that is damaging the health of the people and landscape in her community.
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| | | | A genuine, honest middle-grade graphic novel about a tween struggling to find acceptance in his new school full of rich kids.
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| | | | Julie Flett's picture book follow-up to We All Play is a celebration of love and compassion.
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| | | | In this thrilling, romantic YA debut, two time-traveling Black teenagers try to break the curse that threatens to destroy their families.
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| | |  Yah Yah Scholfield writes horror-speculative fiction and their debut novel, On Sundays, She Picked Flowers, is a sinister and surreal Southern gothic where a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia. In today's feature, Scholfield explains how they came to discover the horror genre and the liberating feeling it offers, while considering the literary influences of Toni Morrison and Shirley Jackson. (continued)
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| | | |  Author James Sallis, "who had the detectives and sheriffs of his stories investigate not merely crime but also the nature of memory and the possibility of self-knowledge," died January 27. The best known of his 18 novels was Drive (2005), about a Hollywood stunt driver who is also a wheelman for armed robberies. It was adapted into a 2011 movie, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Bryan Cranston. (continued)
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