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JAPANESE GOTHIC

By Kylie Lee Baker

In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. Baker’s follow-up to “Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng” delivers a violent and thoughtprovoking tale of grief, generational trauma, and colonialism.

MODERATION

By Elaine Castillo

Girlie Delmundo’s digital work as a virtual reality moderator collides with her personal life when she falls for a coworker in Castillo’s second novel following “America Is Not the Heart,” named a best book by NPR, LitHub, NYPL, and more.

ONE & ONLY

By Maurene Goo

A swoony, funny, romantic novel about a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything. As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, she will have to decide if she’ll follow her fate … or make her own.

THE TAKE

By Kelly Yang

A provocative, fast-paced novel about two creative women — a young writer fighting to be heard and an older producer clinging to relevancy — and the age reversal treatment that intertwines both of their lives.

THE MIDNIGHT TAXI

By Yosha Gunasekera

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera.

DOUBLE HAPPINESS

By Heather Eng

Mei finally has what she’s always wanted: a job with growth potential and financial security, and Joey, a fiancé who adores her. But when she runs into college professor, Alexandre, at a cookout, their connection makes her rethink everything: her career, her commitment to her company, and even her upcoming marriage to Joey.

HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER

By Nina McConigley

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. They’ll all live together, because this is what families do, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die. According to Georgie, the British are to blame.

MS. MEBEL GOES BACK TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK

By Jesse Q. Sutanto

A nearly divorced trophy wife enrolls in culinary school to win back her husband, only to find a fresh start in the unlikeliest of places in this new novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Vera Wong’s, “Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.”