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Updated May 6, 2025
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Tender is the flesh : a novel
Bazterrica, Agustina MarÃa
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My brilliant friend
Ferrante, Elena.
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Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante...
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The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove
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The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto...
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Death Is Hard Work: A Novel
Khalifa, Khaled
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National Book Award Finalist: "The poetic and horrific combine in this tale of love and death set in a Syria torn apart by civil war" (Guardian, UK).As elderly Abdel Latif dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus, he relays his final wish to his youngest son Bolbol: to be...
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Whereabouts
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade--about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to...
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Fever dream : a novel
Schweblin, Samanta
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"Genius." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." --Vanity Fair Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize! Experience...
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The lost village
Sten, Camilla
Ebook
*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR "Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review "[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to...
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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing...
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