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BETWEEN YOU A RIVER by Kimberly Garza
9781250819871 | 12/1/26
In the 1960s, on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, the future of Corazon de la Cruz’s family rests with her. She’ll be the first to go to college, to immigrate to the United States, and to support her family back home by becoming a doctor. She can’t remember whether this dream was ever her own, or if she even has a say in it. But when a fire mysteriously breaks out on the de la Cruzes’ land, the family splinters, and Corazon is faced with a fateful choice.
Decades later, Corazon’s death has shaken the family to its very core. Her daughters, Hannah and Mari, are estranged from their roots in the Philippines when a distant cousin urges the sisters to return to settle unresolved business. Together for the first time in years, the sisters find that the fate of their family’s ancestral land is somehow in their hands, and it’s about to slip away. As they fight to protect their inheritance, they uncover long-buried secrets hidden from them by their beloved matriarch—about her life, their homeland, and themselves.
A lush family saga and a love letter to the Philippines, BETWEEN YOU A RIVER follows two generations of de la Cruzes as they confront the sacrifices made by mothers so their daughters can lead different lives, leaving them to wrestle with the lifelong push and pull of home.
TWO LIVES by Alexis Schaitkin
9781250439277 | 1/26/27
Evelyn Lieberman has always been good at carrying her grief while carrying on. A widow in a Florida retirement community, she keeps busy with regular visits to her grandchildren and a full social calendar with her friends, the Girls. She speaks little about her past and is proud of the life she has built in the present.
When Evelyn’s friend recommends a book by a prominent British author, Simon Glaser, Evelyn is startled to find that the novel tells a hauntingly familiar story. She decides to seek out the book’s writer, the only other person who could have known the details of what happened all those decades ago.
Spanning prewar Vienna, the Yorkshire moors, postwar New York, a Florida retirement community, and the London literary world, TWO LIVES is a sweeping and masterful exploration of heritage, memory, and the human yearning to reconcile our pasts with our present and take the measure of our lives.
THE STARS LOOK LIKE HOME by TJ Klune
9781250881175 | 1/12/27
A promise: The dog does not die in this.
As a puppy, Burke’s mother told him that dogs’ lives are like the stars in the sky: An everlasting light in the darkness. And so, naturally, Burke believes he will live forever.
When he discovers the truth—that he barely has any time at all—he sets out to make the absolute most of life and all it has to offer.
Try as he might to make every day count, he’s shuffled from one place to another, from family homes to training programs.
Until, at last, he finds the man he knows he’s meant to share that life with. But when they’re tragically separated, Burke, a shollie from the suburbs, is sent on an incredible journey through the wilderness, a journey that leads him to the very heart of what it means to have a place in the world, for what little time we’re here.
THE STARS LOOK LIKE HOME is a triumphant story about a good boy on a grand adventure to find a great life.
MINBAK by Ela Lee
9781250448262 | 2/16/27
Minbak (n.) a lodging in a private home
Korea, 1985: Hana Park’s future is bright. A star student and beloved daughter, she dreams of a life beyond working at her family’s local minbak. After a devastating encounter with a foreign guest, Hana sheds her past and flees to London to capture the future she so desperately desires, leaving her heartbroken mother Youngja to pick up the pieces.
London, 2008: When her husband dies unexpectedly in the midst of the global financial crisis, Hana is left with a pile of debt and no way to pay it off. With her teenage daughter Ada and a declining Youngja relying on her, she has no choice but to move her family into one bedroom and open the rest of their home to paying guests as a minbak.
As tragedy brings the three women together, old tensions surface, and the family’s long-hidden secrets threaten to erupt. With no one to turn to but each other, Hana, Youngja, and Ada must confront their complex history, crossing continents and generations to find truth, forgiveness, and compassion.
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