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| | You won't need a travel agent to book passage on the luxury cruises in these three recent novels: Heather McBreen's Sunk in Love follows a married couple on the rocks as they set sail through the Hawaiian Islands with family members who have no idea that they're preparing to divorce. Meanwhile, Jung Yun's All the World Can Hold sends a ship full of TV soap fans to Bermuda shortly after the 9/11 tragedy hit New York City. And Emma Straub's American Fantasy roams the open ocean with boy band fanatics. Balancing outlandish atmosphere with grave matters, each junket is teeming with joviality and disappointment, public drama and private sorrows, as the waves crest and crash around the passengers. Luckily, you won't need Dramamine, either, as you ease into your sea legs!
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 | | Like This, but Funnier | | | Hallie Cantor |
| | | A 30-something woman writing for television comedy in Los Angeles must wrestle with personal and social as well as professional qualms in this discomfiting and hilarious novel.
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| | Inheritance | | | Jane Park |
| | | Jane Park's lyrical debut novel resonantly confronts multigenerational family tensions exacerbated by hidden traumas.
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| | The Last Letters of Sally and Walter | | | Cammie McGovern |
| | | Like playing the Z on a triple-letter score, Cammie McGovern's Scrabble-infused love story is an easy win as Sally and Walter prove it's never too late for a new beginning.
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| | Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel | | | Rex Ogle, illus. by Dave Valeza |
| | | A middle schooler learns what it means to be exactly himself in this breezy and uplifting queer, coming-of-age graphic novel.
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| | | | | | This heartfelt fable for the digitally automated age follows a sentient vacuum and her endangered owners.
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| | | | Emma Straub's seventh book blends joviality and disappointment, nostalgia and realism, via the stories of three people on board a boy band reunion cruise.
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| | | | Che Yeun's haunting debut novel, Tailbone, is an aching, raw portrait of an urban teen runaway's unplanned, unprepared independence.
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| | | | In this unpredictable thriller, a man receives texts warning him that passengers in his subway car will be killed unless he stops them from leaving the train.
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| | | | Camille Pagán's warm, witty 11th novel follows an aging rescue dog determined to help his widowed owner find love again--and save his owner's struggling bookstore in the process.
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| | | | Kate Crane brilliantly traverses genres to offer an intimate but propulsive tribute to her missing father, while uncovering the criminal landscape of 1980s Baltimore.
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| | | | Patrick Radden Keefe creates an utterly propulsive true crime investigation from a family's tragic reality.
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| | | | The phenomenal nonfiction picture book Unbreakable exposes unjust U.S. history while memorializing Japanese American activist Minoru Tonai.
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| | | | This riveting work of middle-grade nonfiction meticulously documents the remarkable 1941 baseball season and its effects on the U.S. as it prepared to enter World War II.
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| | | | This stellar YA sci-fi novel, set in the Chaos Walking world, follows brothers as they defend the New World from invasion by gods, and its indigenous populace from humans themselves.
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| | | | A previously homeschooled teen's world opens as she contemplates escaping her father's coercive control in this disquieting and empathic YA novel.
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| | | | In her striking debut, Hmong: A Graphic History, French-born comics creator Vicky Lyfoung affectingly interweaves her Hmong refugee family's personal story with broader Hmong history.
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| | |   Eisner- and Harvey Award-winning cartoonist Scott Kurtz's second title in his middle-grade Table Titans Club series, Sneak Attack, focuses on five kids excited to be spending their summer at a live-action roleplay camp. Emily B. Martin's middle-grade fantasy Nell O'Dell Hates Quests (Candlewick) features a reluctant adventurer who works at her family's inn serving half-giants, fairies, fauns, and more.
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| | | |  German filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge, "who elevated cinematic collages into an art form and won the top prize at the Venice film festival in 1968," died March 25 at age 94, the Guardian reported. A former assistant of legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang, Kluge "was an accomplished director of intellectually rewarding, if at times oblique filmic essays, and an ever-productive writer of short fiction."... (continued)
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