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• The Garbage Poems

  Swanson, Anna

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  A collection of poems that repurpose the language on garbage collected at local swimming holes that comment on chronic illness and the climate crisis.

• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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  The chilling experience of the author's father during the Holocaust, often lauded as one of the greatest graphic novels ever written.

• Doppelganger

  a Trip Into the Mirror World

  Klein, Naomi, 1970-

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  Step into a world where AI-generated content blurs the lines between real and fake, wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers confuse our politics, and our digital presences mirror our true selves.

• Creation Lake

  a Novel

  Kushner, Rachel

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  A bold, ruthless freelance agent is sent to do dirty work in France. This novel is fraught with seduction, strategy, and shadowy business.

• Pig

  Poems

  Sax, Sam

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  A poetry collection that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power, drawing upon autobiography and history.

• Transcription

  a Novel

  Lerner, Ben, 1979-

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  A gripping emotional drama that examines how out digital devices store (and erase) our memories.

• Who's Afraid of Gender?

  Butler, Judith, 1956-

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  Philosopher and author Judith Butler investigates how society's fear of gender fuels reactionary politics around the world.

• A Different Kind of Tension

  New and Selected Stories

  Lethem, Jonathan

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  A collection of short stories that span Lethem's thirty-year career, which include a bohemian superhero, dreaming overthinkers, and teenaged boys coming to terms with authority.

• The New Earth

  Row, Jess,

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  A gripping novel about a "typical" Jewish family ruptured by secrets and grief.

• This Is Not About Us

  Fiction

  Goodman, Allegra

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  This big-hearted book about the love that connects families across generations follows two sisters following a death in the family.

• Rubble Children

  Kreuter, Aaron

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  7.5 interlinked stories that encompass Jewish belonging, colonialism, and love, all drenched in suburban dread.

• The Sunflower House

  a Novel

  Allegri, Adriana

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  Allina learns a family secret that endangers her during Adolf Hitler's reign as Chancellor of Germany—her birth mother is Jewish.