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ladyniniane · 8 months
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71 et 133, pour les recs de livre ? :D
Salut et merci pour les questions :)
71) Your favorite LGBTQ+ fiction?
Je mettrai en première place Le prieuré de l'Oranger de Samantha Shannon. L'intrigue est distrayante, les héroïnes sont attachantes et ce livre m'a permis de m'évader à un moment où j'en avais besoin.
Je pense aussi à The Ascendant Series de K. Arsenautl Rivera. J'avais été divertie par l'aspect épique, le monde de fantasy égalitaire porté par des femmes puissantes et les influences japonaises et mongoles. Les couvertures sont superbes en plus.
Un petit mot aussi pour La dame à la louve de Rénée Vivien. Même si toutes les nouvelles du recueil ne correspondent pas à cette catégorie, l'écriture est juste superbe.
Récemment j'ai aimé Valiant Ladies de Melissa Grey et The Valkyrie de Kate Heartfield.
133) A book you came across randomly and fell in love with.
Dans le pavillon rouge de Pauline Chen. J'ai trouvé ce livre par hasard à la bibliothèque quand je vivais à Paris. Je ne connaissais pas du tout le classique de la littérature chinoise dont il s'inspire, mais j'ai été emportée et transportée dans l'histoire.
Book recs ask game
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e-b-reads · 1 year
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23 books in 2023! tagged by @agardenandlibrary and also I've been tagged by @wearethekat to post some books I would like to read this year, so even though this isn't the exact same format, I'm counting it for both. In no particular order:
How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler
Flush, Bryn Nelson
South of the Buttonwood Tree, Heather Webber
The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
Murder at the Serpentine Bridge, Andrea Penrose
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Heather Fawcett
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Light Thickens, Ngaio Marsh
The Broken Places, Ace Atkins
Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourn
Egg Drop Dead, Vivien Chen
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull
Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
One Extra Corpse, Barbara Hambly
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
It was so hard for me to refrain from adding context for each of these, so I will just say: most would be new reads I came across in various ways, a few are planned re-reads, and there's a couple I actually already read this year, but I put them down anyway. Please feel free to ask about any of them!
I have very little idea who has already done this/might want to do so, so I will tag @dracereads, @paperbackpropensity, @aretherebooksahead, and @beardedbookdragon in case this appeals! If you don't want to make a list, don't; if you do but I didn't tag you, make one and tag me anyway!
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Beboptober Day 18: Don’t Lose Me
Thanks to @thestarlightsymphony​ for the prompt list! I know, it looks like I’ve skipped Day 17, and...I kinda have (sorry!), but not permanently. I’ve just had the idea for this for a really long time, so I’ve decided to catch up and do Day 17 at some other point during the month, along with another prompt. It will lead to things being a little out of order, but what’s life without a little variety, right?
Oh, and credit where credit’s due—I think I got the idea of Faye keeping a journal at all from Chapter 4 of @beccanoodles’ one-shot collection “With Love, From Bebop” (read it here), although in that one, Ed takes it over!
June 9, 2007
Dear Diary,
Today some of my friends and I found a Betamax tape recorder, and we all decided to use it to record messages to our future selves. It was a little embarrassing at first! I kept getting shy and having to turn the camera off and start again. I guess it was hard to think of things to say to myself ten years from now. At first, all I could say was “Good morning,” and that made everyone laugh. I suppose part of the reason why it was easier for my friends is that they know exactly what they want to be, and they can see their future selves so clearly. Sara wants to be a vetrenarian veterinarian, Mei wants to work on Hyperspace Gates. But it’s hard for me to to imagine my future self.
Ten years from now I’ll be 22, almost 23. That seems so adult! I’ll be a newer version of myself—ten years older, ten years wiser—more mature, I hope. I guess I’ll have graduated from school & university and I’ll have a job, unless I decide to become a doctor or something and have to go to even more school (UGH) and do lots of math (UGGGGHHHH). But I guess my future self knows best—maybe I’d actually be a great doctor and I don’t know it yet. I really have no idea what I’ll be doing with my life that far in the future….For a while I thought maybe I wanted to be an actress, because it sounded like fun. But I sort of gave up on that dream after I was only cast as Villager #3 in the play this year. (Vivien says it’s just because Director Chen doesn’t see my talents, but I think she’s just saying that to make me feel better!) Whatever it is I’m doing in the future, though, I hope it’s something I like, not just something I’m pushed into or anything. I bet I’ll be great at it, especially with 10 more years of experience!
Oh, and I hope that I’ve traveled lots of places and seen lots of new sights by the time I’m 22! I especially want to go to space and see some other planets. I’ve been to a few places on Earth with my family—I told you about that trip to Tokyo earlier in this diary, and we’ve also been to London and New York and a few parts of Beijing—but I’ve never actually been on a rocket, not even one that’s just in orbit. Someday I’d like to see other planets, like Mars or the Moon. (The Moon’s not a planet but whatever.) I bet it will be easier to go there in the future and they’ll have more people and stuff on them, specially with all that Mei says about the new advancing tecknology technology of Hyperspace Gates. It all sounds so exciting!
But there are also some things I hope don’t change. Like I hope that, so far in the future, I still have my friends. I’d be so sad to lose them, even if we just fall out of touch, which Dad says might happen now that we’re all entering our first year of secondary school. Maybe I’ll make new friends, though, in addition to the ones I have already. Maybe ten years from now all of us can watch the tape and laugh and remember how we used to be.
I wonder if I’ll have a boyfriend?
Now that I’m writing this and I’ve recorded the tape, I think, most of all, I hope I don’t change too much—that I don’t lose the things that make me me. Yes, my future self may seem really foren foriegn (dang it) foreign to me now, but she’s really just me, just a little older. I hope she’s still the good things my friends and my parents say I am—compassionate, caring, creative. Plus 10 years of experience and growth and stuff, of course. I hope she’s happy and she has friends, and she’s doing okay. I really want that to look forward to when I’m grown up. When I’m her, I guess.
I thought about this a lot today after my friends left and I did the rest of the recording by myself. I even put on my cheerleading outfit and gave my future self a cheer I’d made up! It’s a little embarrassing, now that I think about it…but I was proud of it. I hope my future self will like it. Or at least that it will make her laugh.
I don’t know what exactly will happen in the future, or what my future self will be like. When she arrives on the scene, I won’t be here anymore. But she won’t totally have lost me. I’m here right now, and even ten years from today I’ll still be there on the tape we recorded today and, I guess, in this diary. And in memories. My future self will know I’m cheering for her, that I love her so much and look up to her (how mature she must be!) and want things to be okay for her. I hope she’s looking back in time and cheering for me, too.
 - Faye ♡
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: How the strong dollar can affect your financial health
: How the strong dollar can affect your financial health
The dollar DXY, -0.89% has risen 18% this year against a basket of six other currencies, as the Federal Reserve has taken the lead among developed countries’ central banks in raising interest rates to push back against inflation. A strong dollar can create pleasant surprises if traveling outside the U.S., but it is having other consequences for companies and investors, as Vivien Lou Chen…
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Why risk of lower 2023 earnings spells bad news for stock market as inflation crushes Fed-pivot hopes
Why risk of lower 2023 earnings spells bad news for stock market as inflation crushes Fed-pivot hopes
By Vivien Lu Chen ‘I don’t think any strategist or analyst who follows the market closely really expects earnings to hold through 2023,’ said Dan Eye of Fort Pitt Capital Group. Rampant inflation has dashed hopes for a quick pivot from aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, which in turn is undermining the outlook for U.S. corporate earnings for 2023 and fueling debate over…
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bookclub4m · 2 years
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Episode 148 - Spring 2022 Media Update
This episode we’re talking about recent media we enjoyed! We discuss TikTok food, video games about boxes, French language books, Pokemon, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Media We’ve Been Consuming
Anna:
B. Dylan Hollis
TikTok
YouTube
Pumpernickel (Wikipedia)
Ryan Hollinger
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Matthew:
Unpacking
How Unpacking's Developers Designed 2021's Coziest Game
Hyper Light Drifter
Wandersong
Meghan:
L’homme qui marche by by Jirō Taniguchi
The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zàrate
Football-Fantaisie by Zviane
Zviane’s comics available in English
RJ:
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
Pokemon Legends: Arceus
Pokemon Showdown
Wikipedia:Unusual articles
Volkswagen currywurst 
Danish Protest Pig
Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
Other Media & Things We Mentioned
Just Plain Wrong - The Pacifist Vampire Soul Dilemma: Three Books about Amish Vampires & Mennonite Assassins
The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle (The Amish vampire book Meghan read)
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Wikipedia)
Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico
Smile (Beach Boys album)
A pixel artist renounces pixel art
Thread on Twitter about Dracula
Pokemon: Everything You Need To Know About The Great War Theory
Morbius (film) (Wikipedia)
Diverse Books Reading Smackdown challenges VPL staff to read outside the box
Featuring the Diverse Reading Victory Belt
Depths of Wikipedia
20 Recent Detective Fiction Novels by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of our lists can be found here. For this retroactive genre from Episode 025, we’re featuring detective fiction by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years. 
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum
Padoskoks: A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery by Joseph Bruchac
Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien
Mimi Lee Cracks the Code by Jennifer J. Chow
The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel
The Lady of Zamalek by Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel
The Conductors by Nicole Glover
The Red Palace by June Hur
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Case of the Burgled Bundle by Michael Hutchinson
The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan
Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder by Xiaolong Qiu
Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey
Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
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Mystery Review!
Vivien Chen – Hot And Sour Suspects In this installment of A Noodle Shop Mystery finds Lana Lee trying speed dating….to bring new customers to her family’s noodle house. It also brings in a familiar face Rina Su, a fellow Asia Village shop owner. Sick of being single, Rina attends and finds a match. But of course, when potential love is involved – drama soon follows – and before the next day…
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Fatal Fried Rice ~ Vivien Chien
Fatal Fried Rice ~ Vivien Chien
Rating: 3/5 I’m not usually one for cozy mysteries, but Fatal Fried Rice makes me understand the appeal. I jumped in head first into the seventh book in the series, but it felt as though it could be a stand alone book, other than the allusions to the previous murders Lana has been a part of. She seems to be a highly unlucky Chinese American woman working at her family’s restaurant, who happens…
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therunwayarchive · 3 years
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Vivien Lawson at Feng Chen Wang, Fall 2020
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sepialunaris · 5 years
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Godzilla: *just defeated Ghidorah and is surrounded by titans*
MUTO 3 (Titanus Gojira's natural predator): hey, food
Rodan: homie I'm so sorry, I'm gonna use my titan democratic right to elect you as our leader
MUTO 3: there goes lunch
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iprincezzinuyoukai · 5 years
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Serizawa: Sam is late... What happened?
Stanton: I had Emma call him at 8 in the morning and pretend it was 11.
Graham: I printed up that fake schedule for him saying we were starting at 9 instead of noon.
Chen: I set all his watches and clocks to say PM when it’s really AM.
Graham: Oh boy. We may have overdone it.
[Meanwhile]
Coleman: WHAT THE HELL TIME IS IT?!?!?!?!?!
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yolandaliou · 6 years
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Photography by Yolanda Y. Liou Styling by Lyla Cheng Makeup by Xabier Celaya Hair by Miley Shen Model: Vivien Lawson  @premiermodels
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mtg-cards-hourly · 2 years
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Frilled Sandwalla
"Even the smallest creatures are fierce in defense of their own territory." —Vivien Reid
Artist: Zezhou Chen TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
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halalgirlmeg · 2 years
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I was tagged by @roarofalannister to post 9 books I intend to read in 2022
List:
1. Jazz by Toni Morrison
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
4. Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
5. Noodle Shop Mystery Series by Vivien Chen
6. The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
7. In The Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
8. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
9. The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
I tag @melaninnpink @lilwitchguard @butchniqabi @orchres @nudne @honeypeachfem anyone else who wants to do it
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ninja-muse · 3 years
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My 2021 Release TBR
As usual, there are too many good books coming out and I need to read them all right now. What’s on your list for the year? Do we share any? Have I added any to your list? (All titles are adult unless stated otherwise.)
First Light - Casey Berger - January 1 (space opera)
Persephone Station - Stina Leicht - January 5 (space opera)
Padoskoks - Joseph Bruchac - January 7 (mystery)
Across the Green Grass Fields - Seanan McGuire - January 12 (portal fantasy)
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry - C.M. Waggoner - January 12 (fantasy)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo - January 19 (YA historical)
The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick - January 19 (fantasy)
We Could be Heroes - Mike Chen - January 26 (superheroes)
The Fabulous Zed Watson! - Basil and Kevin Sylvester - January 26 (middle grade)
The Paris Library - Janet Skeslien Charles - February 2 (historical)
The Ratline - Phillip Sands - February 2 (history)
The Memory Theater - Karin Tidbeck - February 16 (fantasy)
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem - Kliph Nesteroff - February 16 (history)
Calculated Risks - Seanan McGuire - February 23 (contemporary fantasy)
A Dark and Hollow Star - Ashley Shuttleworth - February 23 (YA fantasy)
Satellite Love - Genki Ferguson - March 2 (literary)
Return of the Trickster - Eden Robinson - March 2 (literary/contemporary)
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner - March 2 (historical)
The Conductors - Nicole Glover - March 2 (historical fantasy)
Accidentally Engaged - Farah Heron - March 2 (contemporary romance)
The Rose Code - Kate Quinn - March 3 (historical fiction)
Fatal Fried Rice - Vivien Chien - March 9 (cozy mystery)
A Fatal Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum - Emma Southon - March 9 (history)
Birds of Paradise - Oliver K. Langmead - March 16 (contemporary fantasy)
Raft of Stars - Andrew J. Graff - March 23 (historical fiction)
Nöthin’ But a Good Time - Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour - March 30 (music history)
A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib - March 30 (sociology)
What Abigail Did That Summer - Ben Aaronovitch - March 18 (contemporary fantasy)
The Fall of Koli - M.R. Carey - March 23 (post-apocalypse)
Wild Women and the Blues - Denny S. Bryce - March 30 (historical fiction)
Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good - Nancy Werlin - April 6 (YA contemporary)
First, Become Ashes - K.M. Szpara - April 6 (contemporary fantasy)
The Last Bookshop in London - Madeleine Martin - April 6 (historical fiction)
Broken (in the Best Way Possible) - Jenny Lawson - April 6 (memoir)
The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams - April 6 (historical fiction)
Hana Khan Carries On - Uzma Jalaluddin - April 6 (romance)
When the Stars Go Dark - Paula McLain - April 13 (mystery)
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe-April 13 (current events/true crime)
Between Perfect and Real - Ray Stoeve - April 27 (YA contemporary)
Angel of the Overpass - Seanan McGuire - May 11 (fantasy)
The Hellion’s Waltz - Olivia Waite - May 11 (historical romance)
People We Meet on Vacation - Emily Henry - May 11 (contemporary romance)
A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark - May 11 (alternate history/fantasy)
Son of the Storm - Suyi Davies Okungbowa - May 11 (fantasy)
The Album of Dr. Moreau - Daryl Gregory - May 18 (horror)
Pumpkin - Julie Murphy - May 25 (YA contemporary)
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar - May 25 (YA contemporary)
The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley - May 25 (alternate history)
The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman - May 25 (fantasy)
The Lights of Prague - Nicole Jarvis - May 25 (historical fantasy)
How to Find a Princess - Alyssa Cole - May 25 (contemporary romance)
The Ship of Stolen Words - Fran Wilde - June 1 (middle grade fantasy)
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston - June 1 (romance)
The Hidden Palace - Helene Wecker - June 8 (historical fantasy)
The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison - June 22 (fantasy)
The All-Consuming World - Cassandra Khaw - June 22 (space opera)
Dead Dead Girls - Nekesa Afia - June 1 (historical mystery)
The Library of the Dead - T. L. Huchu - June 1 (contemporary fantasy)
Jay’s Gay Agenda - Jason June - June 1 (YA contemporary)
This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron - July 6 (YA fantasy)
Lake Crescent - J. J. Dupuis - July 6 (mystery)
A Radical Act of Free Magic - H.G. Parry - July 20 (historical fantasy)
The Middle Ages: a Graphic History - Eleanor Janega - July 23 (graphic non-fiction)
Small Favors - Erin A. Craig - July 27 (YA fantasy)
Summer Fun - Jeanne Thornton - July 27 (contemporary)
The Rocky Road to Ruin - Meri Allen - July 27 (cozy mystery)
All’s Well - Mona Awad - August 3 (contemporary)
Clark and Division - Naomi Hirahara - August 3 (historical mystery)
Sisters in Arms - Kaia Alderson - August 3 (historical fiction)
The Bookseller’s Secret - Michelle Gable - August 17 (historical)
A Snake Falls to Earth - Darcie Little Badger - August 17 (YA contemporary fantasy)
Hot and Sour Suspects - Vivien Chien - August 24 (cozy mystery) moved to 2022
My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones - August 31 (horror)
No Gods, No Monsters - Cadwell Turnbull - September 7 (contemporary fantasy)
When Sorrows Come - Seanan McGuire - September 14 (contemporary fantasy)
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr - September 28 (literary fiction)
Along the Saltwise Sea - Seanan McGuire - October 12 (portal fantasy)
The Haunting Season - October 21 (ghost stories)
A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske - November 2 (historical fantasy)
The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks - Mackenzi Lee - November 16 (YA historical)
Rivers of London, Vol. 9 - Ben Aaronovitch - November 16 (graphic novel, urban fantasy)
Tread of Angels - Rebecca Roanhorse - possibly? (historical fiction)
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bookclub4m · 2 years
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20 Recent Detective Fiction Novels by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of our lists can be found here.
For this retroactive genre from Episode 025, we’re featuring detective fiction by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years. 
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum
Padoskoks: A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery by Joseph Bruchac
Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien
Mimi Lee Cracks the Code by Jennifer J. Chow
The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel
The Lady of Zamalek by Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel
The Conductors by Nicole Glover
The Red Palace by June Hur
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Case of the Burgled Bundle by Michael Hutchinson
The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan
Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder by Xiaolong Qiu
Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey
Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
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