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Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea: A Novel
Adult Fiction. “A dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power. When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, she launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight…” Publisher description
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The Guest: A Novel
Adult Fiction. “A week in the life of a 22-year-old grifter in the Hamptons. Cline does pretty-but-creepy like no one else and now takes her brand of alluring ickiness to the wealthy enclaves of Long Island in the last week of summer. We meet Alex swimming in the ocean, high on painkillers she's stolen from her man of the moment, a ‘civilian’ named Simon who doesn't know Alex is a working girl and who has invited her to spend the month of August at his place ‘out east.’ The riveted reader watches helplessly as her mistakes pile up and the sense of imminent disaster steadily soars, humming in every sentence.” Kirkus
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Hula: A Novel
Adult Fiction. “Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawai’i, but there’s a lot she doesn’t understand. She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow. In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to live up to her name and solidify her place within her family legacy. Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, Hula is a spellbinding debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom that still exists in the heart of its people.” Publisher description
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Pasta for All Seasons: Dishes That Celebrate the Flavors of Italy and the Bounty of the Pacific Northwest
Adult Nonfiction. “Fresh ingredients, fresh pasta, innovative dishes. What's not to like? Rising Seattle chef Michela Tartaglia has developed 50 seasonal recipes that showcase the best of Northwest seafood, produce, and meat in creative, deeply satisfying pasta dishes. Using favorite ingredients such as salmon and clams and foodie favorites like nettles and chanterelles, this book offers home cooks dishes that are as comforting as a favorite spaghetti or fettucine dish but as bold and exciting as a hot new restaurant entrée..” Publisher description
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Quietly Hostile: Essays
Adult Nonfiction. “Samantha Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts. Quietly Hostile makes light as Irby takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.” Publisher description
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The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in A Post-career World
Adult Nonfiction. “From thousands of hours of interviews with an extraordinarily diverse group of Americans, Feiler has distilled a powerful new vision for how to think about work. After dismantling the three lies about work, Feiler lays out the one truth: that each of us must write our own story. Showing that the people who are happiest at work don't climb, but dig, Feiler introduces the six questions to ask in a ‘workquake’ that allow us to perform a meaning audit, tapping into our truest selves and our deepest hopes to create the meaning we crave and the success we deserve.” Publisher description,
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Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Adult Nonfiction. ”In this searing debut, Myers—the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line—explores what it means to be ‘a Native woman at the end of a culture.’ ‘No one taught me to be Native American,’ she begins. As an adult, she began to learn the S'Klallam language and folklore, and here adapts the Pacific Northwest tradition of totem storytelling to chart the impacts of an ‘extinction happening in real time’ on her own lineage. Myers's fierce testimony is both record and reclamation of that history, told simply and beautifully.” Publishers Weekly
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Warrior Girl Unearthed
Teen Fiction.” “Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker... Her aspirations won't ever take her far from home, and she wouldn't have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry begins to question everything. Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people’s inheritance.” Publisher description
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Yellowface: A Novel
Adult Fiction. “Ever since they met at Yale as freshmen, June has watched Athena grow into a writer and best-selling author, while June can barely get publishers to look twice at her debut. When Athena dies in a freak incident, June finds and rewrites her friend’s unpublished manuscript about Chinese laborers, passing it off as her own under the racially ambiguous pen name, Juniper Song. The book receives rave reviews, and June skyrockets to the best-seller list… When her new status is threatened, though, June realizes she will do whatever it takes to stay at the top.” Booklist
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Camp Zero: A Novel
Adult Fiction. “Sterling's novel is set in 2049, when climate change has displaced much of the North American population. While the rich have retreated to a haven known as the Floating City…, others have looked to the far north, including a young half-Korean, half-white woman who has traveled to the distant reaches of Canada to Camp Zero to serve as one of several comfort women... Rechristened Rose, her secret mission is to get close to the colony's architect and report on his plans. In exchange, the powerful tech guru she's working for has promised her and her mother a residence in the Floating City.” Booklist
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