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The Sound of Us

by Sarah Willis

As a sign-language interpreter, Alice is used to facilitating other people's conversations, but when a late-night phone call brings a scared 6-year-old into her life, she sees love is a …
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Mothers & Other Monsters

by Maureen F. McHugh

Now, in her long-awaited first short story collection, the author illuminates the mother-daughter relationship from angles that everyone in the family can relate to. Aging parents, wayward children, and nervous …
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Cloud 8

by Grant Bailie

Does the afterlife consist of free beer and Abe Lincoln look-a likes?
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The Space Between Us

by Thrity N. Umrigar

Captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened …
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The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

by Steven Hayward

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke is a hilarious and memorable first novel about youth and passion, family and community, miracles and violence and baseball. This moving love story, also …
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You Remind Me of Me

by Dan Chaon

Why do we become who we become? Through the intertwined threads of the characters' lives, this is the question explored in this eagerly awaited first novel from the National Book …