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City of Asylum Book Club

Thursday, December 1, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Our September book club selection is Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. The in-person discussion will take place in person at Alphabet City on Thursday, December 1 at 6:00 PM. For details, please email our volunteer book club coordinator.

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Staff Picks: New in Translation

Septology By Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Translator) Cover Image

Strega: A Novel By Johanne Lykke Holm, Saskia Vogel (Translated by) Cover Image

The Last Days of Terranova By Manuel Rivas, Jacob Rogers (Translated by) Cover Image

Dawn By Sevgi Soysal, Maureen Freely (Translated by) Cover Image

The Boy and the Dog: A Novel By Seishu Hase, Alison Watts (Translated by) Cover Image

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Burntcoat: A Novel By Sarah Hall Cover Image

The Last Days of Terranova By Manuel Rivas, Jacob Rogers (Translated by) Cover Image

Endurable Infinity: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) By Tony Kitt Cover Image

Dawn By Sevgi Soysal, Maureen Freely (Translated by) Cover Image

The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel By Richard Wright Cover Image

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Staff Picks: Children's Books

A Scatter of Light By Malinda Lo Cover Image

Attack of the Black Rectangles By A. S. King Cover Image

A Rover's Story By Jasmine Warga Cover Image

Patchwork By Matt de la Peña, Corinna Luyken (Illustrator) Cover Image

Magnolia Flower By Zora Neale Hurston, Loveis Wise (Illustrator), Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual By Carole Boston Weatherford, Frank Morrison (Illustrator) Cover Image

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