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1) Echo
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"Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missin gand presumed dead. Nick's own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages, unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia -- but he remembers everything. He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps. He remembers how the slopes...
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""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night."--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
4) Peaces
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The prize-winning, bestselling author returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive....
5) Vagabonds!
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2022.
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"In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician; a fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple; a wife and mother trying to escape from her violent husband....
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2022.
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Español
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"Orion Pagan lleva años esperando a que alguien le diga que va a morir. Ahora que se ha registrado en Muerte Súbita para saber si la grave enfermedad cardiovascular que padece acabará con él, está listo para empezar a vivir. Ese es el motivo por el que decide ir a un evento único e irrepetible: la víspera de Muerte Súbita en Times Square. Recibir su llamada de Último Día es algo que Valentino Prince jamás había imaginado, ya que ni siquiera...
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