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  • The Summer of the Serpent

    by Cecilia Eudave ...
    Translated by Robin Myers ...
    **This surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American “literature of the unusual” is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.For fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.**Guadalajara, Mexico ... Read more

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    The Summer of the Serpent

    by Cecilia Eudave ...
    Narrated by Kim Ramirez ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 36 min

    A horror-infused, polyphonic work about the violence and cruelty seething in a late-seventies Guadalajara neighborhoodAt a traveling fair, a young girl visiting with her family will ask a "serpent woman" to tell her future. The serpent woman's answer is cryptic, but back in their neighborhood, the lives of the girl and her sister will be haunted by a ghost and a boa as their world shimmers between ... Read more

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  • The Empathy Exams

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  • Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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    An NPR Best Book of 2023A collection of twenty dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica*,* this collection of twenty brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, ... Read more

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  • Bad Habit

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    by Alana S. Portero ...
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    Dua Lipa's September Book Club Pick!Included in The Guardian's Best Translated Fiction of 2024"[Bad Habit] shows us that a 'trans novel' can actually be anything it wants to be." –New York Times"A novel that could very well serve as a surrogate mother for future children who grow up lonely and trans." –Washington PostCombining the raw realism and v... ... Read more

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  • A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first ... Read more

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  • The Iliac Crest

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  • Linea Nigra

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    Can you imagine a future where everyone has given up sleeping?From the creator of the television series Red Band Society and author of the international bestseller The Yellow World comes this uniquely special novel.What if I could reveal your secrets with just a glance? And what if I could feel with your heart just by looking at you? And what if --in a single moment-- I could know that we were ... Read more

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