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    Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

    Magic has been banished from Orisha and the clan members who practiced it have been killed on the orders of a power hungry king. Zellie's...
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    Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

    Sophie and her sisters and ready to be sent out into the world on their own after their father dies and leaves their family hat shop to...
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    Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sentō
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sentō

    A charming graphic novel of two young foreigners exploring Japan through the lens of a special camera able to capture images of spirits...
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    The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

    American cartoonist Bechdel (she of the Bechdel film test fame – does a film have two female characters, do they have names, do they...
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    Never Too Small
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Never Too Small

    Arising from a popular YouTube channel of the same name about small space living, this glorious exploration of deliberately designed...
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    High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

    Record store owner Rob has a list for everything, including his break-ups. After Laura leaves him, he decides to revisit his...
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    Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

    An absolutely astounding work, this autobiographical graphic novel traces Satrapi's childhood rebelling against her life in Iran in the...
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    Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Songbirds by Christy Lefteri

    Nisha, an immigrant maid in Cyprus, goes missing walking late one night and her absence tears into the lives of those who love her....
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    The Beatles: Get Back
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    The Beatles: Get Back

    Publishing to coincide with Peter Jackson’s documentary, this stunning full colour hardback is an intimate portrait of The Beatles as...
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    On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    On Beauty by Zadie Smith

    Smith is a rare treasure of a writer, with humour and insight particularly into the modern experience of womanhood and family. On Beauty...
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    Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

    This novel drew me in from the very start, and I had consumed half of it before I even looked up again. Jumping between the probable...
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    Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

    With the backdrop of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s young son Willie lays dying. After his passing, he is sent to rest in a...
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    Mrs March by Virginia Feito
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Mrs March by Virginia Feito

    Mrs. March spends her time as an Upper East Side wife living anxiously under the weight of expectations placed on her by society and...
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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

    Murakami is a wonderful write - both incredibly specific and universal at once. Magical realism at its best, the story of Toru's life a...
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    Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie

    After a storm hits New York City, strange things begin to happen to some residents. They are, it turns out, decedents of the union of an...
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    A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

    One of the most beautiful, heartbreaking, life-affirming novel I have had the pleasure to read. Following four young men from college...
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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

    Told as a series of letters to the reader, this beautiful book follows high school freshman Charlie through his first year in American...
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    Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

    A gorgeous book about how our family history makes us who we are. A young Jewish writer visit his grandparent's pre-war hometown in...
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    In Moonland by Miles Allinson
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    • Sep 26, 2021
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    In Moonland by Miles Allinson

    When Joe is 17, his father kills himself. Years later, when his own daughter is born, he decides to track down his father’s old friends...
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    People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
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    • Sep 25, 2021
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    People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

    I adored this pocket-sized collection of intermingling super short stories, all set in a small Japanese neighbourhood. Charming, odd, and...
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