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• The Swimmers

  Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

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  In Otsuka’s first novel in ten years, a crack in the bottom of a community pool sends ripples through its regular swimmers’ lives and relationships.

• Tripping Arcadia

  a Novel

  Mayquist, Kit,

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  An LGBTQ, gothic Great Gatsby full to the brim with class consciousness and the salacious misdeeds of the rich and famous.

• Glory

  a Novel

  Bulawayo, NoViolet,

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  The horses and pigs that rule Bulawayo’s fictional African country of Jidada will call to mind the allegorical creatures of Animal Farm—and the rise and fall of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe regime.

• Fencing With the King

  a Novel

  Abu-Jaber, Diana,

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  A poet travels to her ancestral homeland for the first time, tagging along with her father, who’s been invited to perform a fencing demonstration in honor of the King of Jordan’s birthday. But the pair soon find they’re fencing family demons too.

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  Mandel fans will recognize characters from her last novel, The Glass Hotel, as well as a character who mirrors the author herself in this rich, satisfying puzzle of a book that spans centuries and prods at the nature of time—and pandemic.

• The Memory Librarian

  and Other Stories of Dirty Computer

  Monáe, Janelle,

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  The iconic performer translates the Afrofuturistic world of her music to the page in a collection written alongside the likes of Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson and more. Familiarity with Dirty Computer not required—though why not give it a spin?

• Little Souls

  Dallas, Sandra,

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  A book for our times by a treasured local author and former reporter. In Little Souls, the Spanish Flu has hit Denver, World War I drags on overseas, and two sisters must figure out what to do when their tenant dies, leaving a child behind.

• Trust

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the 2018 Pulitzer finalist In the Distance, Trust follows society elites, and the money and power that corrupt them, in Roaring Twenties New York.

• Love Marriage

  a Novel

  Ali, Monica, 1967-

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  Yasmin and Joe are engaged, and though they’re both doctors, they come from very different places—Joe’s mother is famous, Yasmin’s is decidedly not, and there’s a gulf of cultural norms and sexual (in)experience between them. How will it all pan out?

• The Hacienda

  Cañas, Isabel,

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  Supernatural suspense for Jane Eyre acolytes and fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic. Beatriz’s family did not weather the War of Independence well, and the titular hacienda she thought was her saving grace may be just the opposite.

• Woman of Light

  a Novel

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  Local author Fajardo-Anstine’s debut story collection, Sabrina & Corina, was a regional and national hit. Here she’s back with her first novel, a multigenerational saga tracing the fortunes of Luz “Little Light” Lopez and her family in 1930s Denver.

• The Sizzle Paradox

  Menon, Lily,

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  The latest rom-com delight from the Colorado-based writer, known as Sandhya Menon to YA readers. (Think 2017’s When Dimple Met Rishi, adapted for Netflix in 2020 as Mismatched.)

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  If you enjoyed Tommy Orange’s 2018 bestseller There There, this one’s for you. Debut author Hokeah tells the story of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American man trying to find his place in the world, through the various voices of his family.

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Boulder writer Stephen Graham Jones returns to Proofrock in this bloody follow-up to 2021’s My Heart Is a Chainsaw. Book two of a planned trilogy.

• The Book Eaters

  Dean, Sunyi,

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  In The Book Eaters, bibliophiles glean the content of a book literally by consuming it. In such a world, Devon finds her steady childhood diet of fairytales is of little use when her son is born with a hunger for something darker than pages.

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