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1) Deep Mud
3) Betty
Un coming-of-age lírico, espiritual y feminista ambientado en el Ohio rural de los años sesenta e inspirado en la historia familiar de la autora. Soy Betty Carpenter, nací en una bañera en 1954 y crecí en el pueblo de Breathed, Ohio. De mis ocho hermanos fui la única que heredé la piel oscura de mi papá Landon, que era cheroqui. De niña creía que ser cheroqui significaba estar atado a la luna. También
...4) Sealskin
Donald, a young fisherman, is overwhelmed when he comes across a group of exotic women dancing on the shore beneath the moonlight. They are selkies—seals that shed their skin once a year and become human for a few hours. Overcome
5) Slipping
There are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel.” —Omar El Akkad, author of American War
A struggling journalist named Seif is introduced to a former exile with an encyclopedic knowledge of Egypt’s obscure, magical places. Together, as explorer and guide, they step into the fragmented, elusive world the Arab Spring left behind. They trek to an affluent neighborhood where giant corpse flowers rain from
...11) Malachi and I
What if I told you the greatest love stories ever told—Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Salim and Anarkali, Romeo and Juliet and so many more—are far greater tragedies than anyone has ever realized?
What if I told you that you haven’t been reading a new story… just a new chapter in one epic saga?
If I told you…all of those lovers…were actually the same two souls seeking their happily ever...
12) The Naked Woman
A woman’s feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay in this "wild, brutal paean to freedom" (NPR.org).
Shortlisted for the National Translation Award
"Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated." —NPR.org
“A surreal, nightmarish book about women’s struggle for autonomy—and how that struggle is (always, inevitably) met with violence.”
...Quinn Cutler is sixteen, the daughter of a candidate for congress in Brooklyn, and a student at a private school in Park Slope. She’s also pregnant, a situation made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of actually having sex. Scared and confused, Quinn struggles to piece together what might...
Howard Wright finds his skin turning transparent, revealing the bloody workings of musculature beneath. His body becomes otherworldly and insistent, spinning him into visions that echo trauma from his childhood.
Sarah Turnsfield is living under an assumed identity, on the run from her past as a meteoric scientific prodigy. Content
...18) Half Outlaw
20) Blood Omen
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