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• Ada's Room

  Otoo, Sharon Dodua

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  Four different Ada's, live in four different time periods, as a woman is reborn again and again, from 15th-century West Africa to modern Europe. "This is a rule-shattering novel about the presentness of the past", Kirkus Reviews For fans of "Cloud…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American War

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  What if the states of the Deep South were the equivalent of today’s Syria and Palestine? American War exposes the violence of American comfort as well as the dangers of the oil industry and climate change.

• The Book That Wouldn't Burn

  Lawrence, Mark, 1966-

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  Civilizations rise and fall but there has always been a constant, an ancient library containing a collection of all art and knowledge. This bastion out on the "Dust" is all that's left of past civilizations and is where one of our protagonists grew…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Rising Sun

  a Novel

  Ahmed, Jamila

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  "Ahmed, who studied medieval Islamic history, does not pander to a Western audience in her debut novel, which includes many Arabic and Muslim terms. Shaherazade, of One Thousand and One Nights, famously told riveting tales to her ruthless husband,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

  a Novel

  Crane, Marisa

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  A debut book about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state. It examines the shadow of grief, the hard work of parenting, and the power of queer resistance. For fans of "Prophet Song".

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  This fantasy novel is written in the form of the journal of Piranesi, a man who lives in an infinite labyrinthine building. He meets the mysterious ‘Other’ who enlists him in searching for the ‘Great & Secret Knowledge’ of the ancients. Piranesi’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poster Girl

  Roth, Veronica

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  In this dystopian mystery that takes place in Seattle, Portland, and South Vancouver, everyone is monitored and tracked by their ocular implant. When this system falls, the former poster girl for the old government must earn her freedom by locating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pure Colour

  Heti, Sheila, 1976-

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  2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language Fiction. "in Sheila Heti's new novel, a young woman considers the state of civilization and briefly joins her dead father on another plane of existence. Pure Color seeks answers about love,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Great Circle

  Shipstead, Maggie

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  This epic novel tells the stories of two women who lived a century apart, Marion Graves, a daredevil aviator, and Hadley Baxter, the actor cast to play Marion in a film. The film centres on Marian’s disappearance in Antarctica during her attempt to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The School for Good Mothers

  a Novel

  Chan, Jessamine

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  When Frida, an exhausted new mother, makes one bad decision, her daughter is seized from her and she is sent to a bizarre school for "good mothers" -- a surreal hellscape where women are probed, psychoanalyzed, and monitored in the hopes they will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea Change

  Kress, Nancy

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  This near future climate thriller may appeal to fans of Ursula LeGuin.

• The Shuddering City

  Shinn, Sharon

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  Shinn balances vivid worldbuilding, captivating characters, and a fascinating mystery. Readers won't want to put this down. "Publishers Weekly". For fans of Ursula LeGuinn.

• Station Eleven

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  Station Eleven takes us to a post-apocalyptic era where a fictional swine flu has taken over the Great Lakes region. Led by a Hollywood star, a nomadic group of actors roam the scattered outposts, risking everything for art and humanity. You may…Read moreRead more of this annotation