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  Changing Woman - A Novel of the...

  Venetia Hobson Lewis

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  Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregón and her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, welcomes Nest Feather, a twelve-year-old Apache girl, into womanhood in Aravaipa Canyon. 
   
   
   
  Mexican and Anglo settlers have pushed the Apaches from their lands, and the Apaches carry out raids against them. In turn, the settlers, angered by the failure of the US government and the military to protect them, respond with a murderous raid on an Apache encampment under the protection of the US military at Camp Grant, kidnapping Nest Feather and other Apache children. 
   
   
   
  In Tucson, while Valeria finds fulfillment in her work as a seamstress, Raúl struggles to hide from her his role in the bloody attack, and Nest Feather, adopted by a Mexican couple there, tries to hold on to her Apache heritage in a culture that rejects her very being. Against the backdrop of the massacre trial, Valeria and Nest Feather's lives intersect in the church, as Valeria seeks spiritual guidance for the decision she must make and Nest Feather prepares for a Christian baptism.

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  Taiwan Travelogue - A Novel

  Yang Shuang-Zi

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  WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE 
   
   
   
  May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine. 
   
   
   
  Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger than she is, and who shares the characters of her name—is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. Chizuru arranges Chizuko's travels and proves to be an exceptional cook. Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It's only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the "something" is. 
   
   
   
  Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan's highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

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  A Handful of Happiness

  Evelyn Hood

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  Twisting Hercules

  Kim Malaj

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  The clear blue skies suddenly turn an eerie green and within a few seconds it begins … nature explodes with a vengeance.Like most people, Silvey Rhoades pays little attention to the details about the weather. But when disaster strikes her home town, she’s confronted with a secret once buried for sixty years. It’s discovery only possible because of a tiny crack in Silvey’s reality. She races through the dark and even darker past to find her way back home.Will she make it back or will she remain untethered to the world she once knew?

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  The Whip Hand

  William W. Johnstone, J. A....

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  The latest action-packed installment in bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone in the Hunter Buchanon Black Hills Western series. 
   
   
   
  THE HILLS HAVE EYES 
   
   
   
  The Buchanans are no strangers to hard times—or making hard choices. After losing a hefty number of livestock to a killer grizzly, Hunter Buchanan is forced to sell a dozen broncs down in Denver for some badly needed cash. Everything goes smoothly—until he's ambushed on the way home. The culprits are a murderous bunch of prairie rat outlaws, as dangerous as any Buchanan has ever tangled with. But Hunter is hell-bent on getting his money back. Even if means pursuing the thieves into Dakota Territory—where even deadlier dangers await . . . 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile, Angus Buchanan has agreed to guide three former Confederate bounty hunters into the Black Hills, on the trail of six cutthroats who robbed a saloon and killed two men in Deadwood. This motley trio of hunters are as cutthroat as the cutthroats they're after. And it doesn't take long for Angus to realize they mean to slaughter him as well at the end of  the trail . . . 
   
   
   
  One family of ranchers. Two groups of coldhearted murderers. So many ways to die.

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  Mary Barton Volume 1

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  Set in the industrial city of Manchester in the mid-19th century. The story follows the titular character, Mary Barton, a working-class girl who lives with her father, a factory worker, and her aunt in a small house in the city's impoverished area. Mary falls in love with Jem Wilson, a fellow factory worker who is also a trade union activist. However, when Mary's father becomes embroiled in a labor dispute, he accuses Jem of the murder of a local mill owner, leading to Jem's imprisonment and Mary's estrangement from him. "Mary Barton" offers a poignant portrait of life in 19th century Manchester, highlighting the struggles of the working-class and the importance of empathy and compassion in navigating societal divides.

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