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• This Is Ear Hustle

  Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

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  From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people.

• Interior Chinatown

  a Novel

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown.

• Radiant Fugitives

  a Novel

  Ahmed, Nawaaz,

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  A consultant for Kamala Harris' attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema, nine months pregnant and estranged from the Black father of her unborn son, attempts to reconcile with the family who exiled her after she came out as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The President and the Frog

  De Robertis, Caro,

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  The former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe, and wonders if her should share a strange secret of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning

  Hong, Cathy Park,

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  An award-winning poet and essayist offers a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American.

• Gordo

  Stories

  Cortez, Jaime,

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  Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Cortez's debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West.

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda

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  A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.

• Concepcion

  An Immigrant Family's Fortunes

  Samaha, Albert,

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  A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience.

• The Bohemians

  a Novel

  Darznik, Jasmin, 1973-

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  A novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, explores the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring.

• The Wrong End of the Telescope

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there.

• Inflamed

  Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

  Marya, Rupa, 1975-

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  Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Hanging Out

  Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California

  Margolin, Malcolm,

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• A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

  Brahinsky, Rachel, 1974-

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  An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance and transformation

• The Committed

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon.

• A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth

  Stories

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

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  At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories -- among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner -- cap a fifteen-year project.

• The Bad Muslim Discount

  a Novel

  Masood, Syed,

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  A homesick Pakistani immigrant chafing against the strictures of his family's new devout Muslim life in California and a young woman who barely escaped war-torn Baghdad upend their community in the aftermath of a fateful chance encounter.

• Fiebre Tropical

  a Novel

  Delgado Lopera, Julian,

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  Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.

• Victories Greater Than Death

  Anders, Charlie Jane

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  Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save all the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Run the Tides

  a Novel

  Vida, Vendela,

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  The disappearance of a teen in the aftermath of a dispute about something that was or was not witnessed exposes dark community secrets.

• My Old Home

  a Novel of Exile

  Schell, Orville,

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  Presents the story of a rare Chinese student at 1950 San Francisco’s Conservatory of Music who upon returning home is confronted by an erratic new government.