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On a year-long exchange programme in rural Oregon, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. An unforgettably witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established world upside down.

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America – but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

Nuri is a beekeeper, his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain.

The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., 23-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a 10-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor - April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads Online. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense media spotlight.

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.

Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

"הרבה פעמים בחיי קראו לי בוגד. הפעם הראשונה הייתה כשהייתי בן שתים עשרה ורבע וגרתי בשכונה בסוף ירושלים. זה היה בחופש הקיץ, פחות משנה לפני שהשלטון הבריטי הסתלק מהארץ ומדינת ישראל נולדה מתוך המלחמה".

גיבור הספר פנתר במרתף הוא נער המכונה פרופסור, מפני שאינו מפסיק לבדוק מילים, להפוך אותן, להרכיבן ולסדרן מחדש. בימים של חרדה ושל עוינות הדדית הוא מתיידד עם שוטר בריטי תימהוני ומואשם על ידי חבריו בבגידה. בתוך כך הוא מגלה את עצמו מחדש, בודק, מהפך ומרכיב מחדש את עולמו, את יחסו להוריו, לאויב, ולעצמו.

יוגב מתחיל לשתות עם חבריו בבית הספר, ובמהרה מוצא עצמו בתוך מערבולת גופנית ונפשית שהולכת ויוצאת מכלל שליטה. הוריו, הדוגלים בחינוך מתירני, נמנעים מלהתערב במצב, ובסופו של דבר סבא וסבתא שלו הם העושים את הצעד ולוקחים אותו אל ביתם שבמושב בצפון. באווירה חדשה זו, של עבודת כפיים והסתפקות במועט, לומד יוגב לקחת על עצמו את האחריות למצבו, ובעזרת סביו, דודו ירון ונערה בשם זיו, הגרה בבית השכן, מתחיל לגלות מחדש את הכוחות ואת היכולות הטמונים בו.

Torin O’Connor thought he could handle the shadows of his family’s Brooklyn mafia past, but one reckless mistake with the wrong Italian mobster changes everything. Sent to Montana’s rugged Carrillo Ranch to escape his own self-destructive choices—Torin finds himself under the watchful eye of Garett Barnes, a stoic cowboy with a past as unyielding as the land he works.

It's a story about being unaware of your own struggles, fearing rejection, feeling alone, striving to be a good person, and trying to please everyone except yourself. It's about falling in love, facing complete rejection, and embarking on a journey of self-discovery—asking, Who am I now?

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die. According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West.

Fourteen-year-old Ida was born with a hole in her heart. Forbidden from most physical activities and considered strange by her teachers and peers, she prefers spending time alone, memorizing countries and capitals on her globe and imagining the world outside the tiny logging town of Mineral, Washington. One afternoon, in walks her cousin Elna, here to stay for a few weeks. Ida hasn't seen Elna since they were young, and she's immediately drawn to her older cousin, who's everything Ida is not: confident, glamorous, charismatic, and daring.

Versalles, 1994. Aunque crece en un entorno feliz, el pequeño Milan sufre con el obstinado silencio de su madre ruandesa sobre sus orígenes y su familia. Ese desconocimiento sólo se irá diluyendo poco a poco, primero con las imágenes del genocidio y luego con la llegada del joven y malherido Claude, al que acogerán durante unos días. Cuatro años más tarde, cuando Milan visite Ruanda por primera vez junto a su madre, su estancia allí supondrá para él una experiencia tan honda que acabará cambiando su vida para siempre.

כשהייתי קצת יותר גדול, אבא שלי לימד אותי לרכוב על אופניים בלי גלגלי עזר. זה היה בפאתי אמסטרדם, במגרש החניה של פארק שעשועים ענק, ניסיתי לסובב את הדוושות, והוא רץ מאחורי והחזיק את הברזלים שמאחורי המושב. על הפעם הראשונה שהוא עזב אותם ושיחרר אותי לרכוב לבד, איבדתי את שיווי המשקל ונפלתי. הולנדים הצביעו עלינו וצחקו. הזענו בטירוף, אני ממש זוכר את כתם הזיעה בחזה של אבא שלי. אחרי כמה נפילות הוא נעמד מולי ואמר בקול רך "אם תמשיך לנסוע ככה זה לא ילך, בן." "איך ככה?" שאלתי אותו, ושפשתי את הברך שכאבה מהנפילה האחרונה.

נונו הוא בנו של איש משטרה בכיר. אמו מתה כשהיה תינוק, והנפש הקרובה אליו ביותר היא גַבִּי, מזכירתו וחברתו של אביו. בתחילת הסיפור הוא עולה על הרכבת בירושלים ונוסע לביקור משפחתי בחיפה. הוא לא יגיע לשם. בדרכו הוא יקלע ל"חטיפה" ולמסע של פשעים קטנים וגדולים, מטורפים ואביריים, בעוד הוא נמלט מן המשטרה המחפשת אחריו. במהלך המאורעות המתעתעים ייחשף בפניו הסיפור האמיתי של הוריו ושלו, והסיפור הזה ישלח אותו הלאה, אל תוך ההרפתקה המסעירה של גילוי עצמו וגורלו.

In the farm fields surrounding Sault Ste. Marie, a border town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, time seems to stand still. Summer, the sun scalds the local boys’ necks as they bale hay for cash. Winter, the girls bundle up against the cold and jostle through the high school halls like trailered sheep. Most kids dream of leaving, but Everett Lindt plans to stay on his family's sheep farm, develop his own herd, and eventually rebuild the crumbling homestead that looks over the land he loves.

Suzanna Klein spends every Saturday at Hillcrest prison, where her mother is serving a life sentence. Many leave Hillcrest and do not return—women who are released or transferred, family members who stop visiting. Suzanna’s grandmother has never visited and is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s decision to aid in a politically motivated robbery that led to a man’s death. At an early age Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever—to stay by choice, not by curse—and the book traces her quest to remain in a place everyone else wants to leave.

Freshman Minnie is adrift at college in Austin, Texas, when she discovers a boy band called HOURglass and the online forums that worship them. She especially loves Halo, whose sharp edges feel somehow familiar. After a brief romance goes painfully awry, Minnie pours everything into her new fandom, clinging to each livestream and bonding with other fans online. But when a scandal threatens to expose Halo to harm, Minnie decides that she is the only one who can save him.

It’s 1972, and eighteen-year-old tomboy Maeve O’Connor must win a photography contest to escape her suffocating, conservative family and attend her dream school in Manhattan. But where will she find arresting subjects? Why, a washed up old seaside resort called Asbury Park, New Jersey—a place where sideshow entertainers, strippers, carnies, artists, and alternative lifestyles coexist on the boardwalk in plain sight.

Diamonds from Darkness, a boy with a big heart and even bigger challenges! Born on a warm October day in 1968, Thomas's early life is filled with love but also struggles. After his mother’s battle with postpartum depression, he finds comfort with his grandmother. As he grows, he experiences the joy of family, the thrill of his first birthday, and the excitement of a new brother, Joseph. But with joy comes jealousy, and sharing attention isn’t easy!