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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Shirin’s post-9/11 experience did not offer her a sense of unity as it did among most Americans. After being physically attacked by strangers for wearing a hijab, she struggles trusting others and just wants to be invisible. Her popular outgoing brother convinces her to join a break-dancing club, where she meets Ocean. His attention and kindness confuses her as she struggles to accept that someone may genuinely care about her regardless of her religious beliefs and clothing. Not everyone is accepting of their increasingly closer friendship, proving society still has much to learn and grow.
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Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming-especially when he's also dealing with clinical depression, a disapproving dad, and a chronically anemic social life. In Iran, he gets to know his ailing but still formidable grandfather, his loving grandmother, and the rest of his mom's family for the first time. And he meets Sohrab, the boy next door who changes everything.
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Dry
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You
Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda's audience grew, these messages took on a life on their own.
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Killing November
At the international Academy Absconditi, there’s no electricity, no internet, and an archaic eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes range from knife throwing and poisons to the art of deception. And the students? All silver-spoon descendants of the world’s most elite strategists–training to become assassins, spies, and master impersonators. One is a virtuoso of accents–and never to be trusted. Another is a vicious fighter determined to exploit November’s weaknesses. And then there’s the boy with the mesmerizing eyes and a secret agenda. November doesn’t know how an ordinary girl like her fits into the school’s complicated legacy. But when a student is murdered, she’ll need to separate her enemies from her allies before the crime gets pinned on her . . . or she becomes the killer’s next victim.
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Now Entering Addamsville
Zora lives in a small town in Indiana where her family isn’t necessarily admired. Zora can see ghosts and she hunts the firestarters who stalk their town. Because she is near the scene often, Zora is now accused of starting the fire that killed the school janitor. Zora and her cousin have to clear her name by finding the real killer.
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On the Come Up
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. But it’s hard to get your come up when you’re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral…for all the wrong reasons.
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The Fountains of Silence
It’s 1957 and aspiring photographer Daniel Matheson is visiting Spain with his Texas oil tycoon father. Daniel is eager for the opportunity to flesh out his portfolio for a photography contest—what would be more prize-worthy than photos of daily life in notoriously secretive Spain?—but he gets repeated warnings, some quite aggressive, against looking too closely. Another thing Daniel doesn’t bank on is Ana, an arrestingly beautiful maid at the Castellana Hilton, where he’s staying with his parents. As their affection deepens, so, too, do their differences: Ana, daughter of executed anti-Fascists, lives a tightly constrained existence, and Daniel has unprecedented freedom in her country and can’t quite wrap his head around the danger he puts her in.
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Truly Devious
Ellingham Academy, founded by Albert Ellingham, is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. Shortly after the school opened in the early twentieth century, Ellingham’s wife and daughter were kidnapped. This became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history. Fast forward to present day: True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. Told in alternating chapters between past and present, this book is hard to put down.
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You Bring the Distant Near
Through the lives of five women over three generations, Perkins tells a story about a family trying to find their American identity while maintaining their Indian culture. The characters are women you’d want to meet in real life, each with her own strengths, vulnerabilities, passions, and problems. Each generation of this Indian-American family learns and grows with heart and humor.
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