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• Heaven

  Kawakami, Mieko, 1976-

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  A bold and thought-provoking novel that was shortlisted for the International Book Prize. Heaven follows a fourteen-year-old boy, mercilessly bullied for his lazy eye, and the unlikely friendship he forms with Kojima, a girl suffering her own silent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stiff

  the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

  Roach, Mary

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  Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers--some willingly, some unwittingly--have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Thousand Ships

  a Novel

  Haynes, Natalie

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  Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, A Thousand Ships reimagines the Trojan War through the eyes of the women history forgot. Mothers, queens, warriors, and goddesses step out from the shadows to reclaim a story dominated by men for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourteen Days

  a Literary Project of the Authors Guild of America

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  Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Future

  a Novel

  Alderman, Naomi

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  From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power comes a dazzling, high-stakes thriller in which a small band of friends plots a daring heist to stop tech giants whose unchecked greed threatens life as we know it. Thrilling, hilarious, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

  Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction

  Gee, Henry, 1962-

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  By the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth comes a bold, unsettling history of humanity at a turning point. For the first time in over ten thousand years, human population growth is slowing—and within decades, it will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Notes of a Crocodile

  Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-1995

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  A cult classic of queer literature, Notes of a Crocodile makes its English-language debut as an NYRB Classics Original. Set in late-1980s Taipei, in the wake of martial law, Qiu Miaojin’s groundbreaking coming-of-age novel captures a generation of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

  Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

  Doughty, Caitlin

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  Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. This new book, Will My Cat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  In this new novel, Murakami revisits a town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Metamorphosis

  Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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  The Metamorphosis begins almost comically. A man wakes up to find he has turned into an insect. But the claustrophobic, dirty room and the increasingly distressed narrator soon turn this into a tale of slow horror. Most horrifying of all is his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Lecture

  Pausch, Randy

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  After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned--about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have--in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

  McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967

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  Set in Depression-era Georgia, this luminous short novel centers on a quietly complex woman whose life is altered when a stranger arrives in town. Spare on the surface yet rich with unspoken feeling, the story unfolds with deceptive simplicity:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Immigrant

  26 Writers Reflect on America

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  By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America - The Washington Post.

• The Hearing Trumpet

  Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011

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  An old woman slips into a dazzling world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic. Written in the early 1960s, The Hearing Trumpet is a wildly inventive, subversive masterpiece, as unsettling as it is exhilarating, and one of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation