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What Storm, What Thunder By Myriam J A. Chancy Cover Image
City of Asylum Book Club
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Our March book club selection is What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy. Readers can choose to attend EITHER the in-person or Zoom discussion. The in-person discussion will take place in person at Alphabet City on Thursday, March 23, at 6:00 PM. For details, please email our volunteer book club coordinator.

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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
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Above Ground By Clint Smith Cover Image
Something Evergreen Called Life By Rania Mamoun, Yasmine Seale (Translator) Cover Image
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Chlorine: A Novel By Jade Song Cover Image
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales By Sabrina Orah Mark Cover Image
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Biography of X: A Novel By Catherine Lacey Cover Image

Staff Picks: New in Translation

The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel By Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (Translated by) Cover Image
Fractured Soul: A Novel By Akira Mizubayashi, Alison Anderson (Translated by) Cover Image
Ischia By Gisela Heffes, Grady Wray (Translator) Cover Image
The Flowers of Buffoonery By Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (Translated by) Cover Image
Something Evergreen Called Life By Rania Mamoun, Yasmine Seale (Translator) Cover Image
Nothing Is Lost By Cloé Medhi, Howard Curtis (Translator) Cover Image

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Ten Planets: Stories By Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Cover Image
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters” By Kim Todd Cover Image
The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel By Sosuke Natsukawa, Louise Heal Kawai (Translated by) Cover Image
Ischia By Gisela Heffes, Grady Wray (Translator) Cover Image
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Staff Picks: Children's Books

We Deserve Monuments By Jas Hammonds Cover Image
The Puttermans Are in the House By Jacquetta Nammar Feldman Cover Image
A Rover's Story By Jasmine Warga Cover Image
A Library By Nikki Giovanni, Erin K. Robinson (Illustrator) Cover Image
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Daniel Minter (Illustrator) Cover Image
Teddy, Let's Go! By Michelle Nott, Nahid Kazemi (Illustrator) Cover Image

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City of Asylum Exiled Writers-in-Residence

The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories By Osama Alomar, C. J. Collins (Translated by) Cover Image
The Conspiracy By Israel Centeno, Guillermo Parra (Translator) Cover Image
Night Birds and Other Stories By Maung Maung Myint (Translator), Khet Mar Cover Image
Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya, Katherine Silver (Translated by) Cover Image
The Thunder of Deep Thought: House of the Sun Notebooks, Number Two By Teresa Zimmerman-Liu (Translator), Huang Xiang Cover Image
Rituals of Restlessness By Yaghoub Yadali, Sara Khalili (Translator) Cover Image

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