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• Blackfish City

  Miller, Sam J.,

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  After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Borrowed

  Chan, Ho-Kei, 1975-

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  Follows six cases from the fifty-year career of brilliant Hong Kong detective Kwan Chun-dok, each from a pivotal period of the territory's history, from Chun-dok's experiences in the 1967 leftist riot to his final 2013 case in a Hong-Kong…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burn for Burn

  Han, Jenny

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  Postcard-perfect Jar Island is home to charming tourist shops, pristine beaches, amazing oceanfront homes—and three girls secretly plotting revenge. KAT is sick and tired of being bullied by her former best friend. LILLIA has always…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circe

  Miller, Madeline,

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  Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dinner on Monster Island

  Essays

  De Rozario, Tania,

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  In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dragonfly Sea

  Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo,

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  A vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl From Everywhere

  Heilig, Heidi,

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  Heidi Heilig's debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl From the Sea

  Ostertag, Molly Knox,

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  Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Reclamation

  Heng, Rachel,

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  A sweeping novel set in Singapore during the years leading up to its independence from British colonial powers, about one young boy from a rural fishing family and the love story that will shape his life and complicate the fate of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Impossible City

  a Hong Kong Memoir

  Cheung, Karen, 1993-

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  In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. Hong Kong has long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Insurrecto

  Apostol, Gina,

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  Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island of Doctor Moreau

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946,

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  The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who finds himself shipwrecked and an unwelcomed guest on the Pacific Island of one Doctor Moreau. There, Prendick discovers Moreau is performing horrific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jade City

  Lee, Fonda,

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  Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for -- and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jane, Unlimited

  Cashore, Kristin,

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  Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life.

• Land of Love and Drowning

  Yanique, Tiphanie

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  A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lesson

  Turnbull, Cadwell, 1987-

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  An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Memory Police

  Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-

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  On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Missing Persons

  Or, My Grandmother's Secrets

  Wills, Clair,

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  Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.

• Notes of a Crocodile

  Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-1995,

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  Set in the post-martial-law era of 1990s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university.…Read moreRead more of this annotation