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Wake Me Up When September Comes

Our stellar line-up of brand-new books curated for you each month is here. Check out our new releases in September!

Fiction

A House Full of Men by Parinda Joshi 

Kittu might live in a full house, but sometimes, she feels like she’s all alone in the world. A House Full of Men is a novel about false starts and failed attempts, love and the importance of being understood.

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The Colour of God by Ayesha S. Chaudhry

‘The kind of authentic voice that is rarely heard.’—Saima Mir

This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield them from racism. The author explores the joys and sorrows of growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household, wedding grand historical narratives of colonialism and migration to the small intimate heartbreaks of modern life.

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The New Kingdom by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn

In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui’s stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui’s own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui’s father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city.

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Lahore: Book 1 of The Partition Trilogy by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar 

‘As the men fought over religion and maps, the Partition heaped unspeakable atrocities on women. Manreet’s book is a faithful, unforgiving look at what was and also what shouldn’t have been. Lahore is breathtaking in scope, painful yet gentle to the touch.’—Taslima Nasreen, author of Lajja

Set in parallel threads in Lahore and Delhi, Lahore is a behind-the-scenes look into the negotiations and the political skullduggery that gave India its freedom, paying the price with batwara. As the men make the decisions and wield the swords, the women bear the brunt of the carnage that tests kinship and loyalty in the sticky hot months of India’s cruelest summer ever.

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Taxi Wallah and Other Stories by Numair Atif Choudhury 

‘Numair Choudhury is the Bangladeshi Bolano’—Amitava Kumar

The stories in this collection are bound by their protagonists – outsiders looking in – whether it is the taxi wallah of the title story who ferries tourists to upmarket hotels in Gulshan, the chokra for whom the streets of Dhaka are both sustenance and threat, Rabia the maid who feels compelled to call even the youngest of her employer’s children ‘Apa’, or the brick breaker who finds his life draining away as he hammers rubble at construction sites…

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Meet Me In The Middle by Vani Mahesh

Life is perfect … until her husband develops a sudden desire for a life of luxury and forces Anu to move to the plush neighborhood of Verdant Green.

The sudden jump from a middle-class life to a super-luxurious one that they can barely afford lands Anu in one mess after another. Faced with everything from casual classism to extravagant yoga classes, she must now tackle this new life in her own inimitable style even as her marriage crumbles.

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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

“Doerr returns with a deeply affecting epic. . . . [Cloud Cuckoo Land] is a marvel.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review 

Thirteen-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.

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The Bollywood Affair by Gauri Sinh

Late 1990s, Mumbai. Superstar RK is traumatized by the inexplicable wails that have begun echoing through his sprawling heritage home. Is the superstar really being haunted? Or could the screams have something to do with his latest movie, a blockbuster about a haunted house?

As the plot thickens, and those around RK begin succumbing to what seems like supernatural malice, private investigators Akruti and Parvati must solve a crime set against a backdrop of suspicion and fear. After all, they wouldn’t want RK’s lady love, the stunning screen ingenue Alena, to become the next victim.

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Freckles by Cecelia Ahern

Freckles is a beautiful, hopeful book when the world needs hope most. Cecelia has written a novel about our search for our authentic selves in a crazy world. Like all her novels, it’s inspiring, life-affirming and full of insight’—Cathy Kelly

Allegra Bird’s arms are scattered with freckles, a gift from her beloved father. But despite her nickname, Freckles has never been able to join all the dots. So when a stranger tells her that everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, it opens up something deep inside.

The trouble is, Freckles doesn’t know if she has five people. And if not, what does that say about her? She’s left her unconventional father and her friends behind for a bold new life in Dublin, but she’s still an outsider.

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Lost, Hurt, Or in Transit by Rohan Chhetri

‘This book has pain and it has discovery. It has wonder. It has the spell of a story and the effortlessness of a song. Which is why I hope it finds its way into you, your hands, readers.’ Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic

In Rohan Chhetri’s much-awaited second collection, inherited literary forms-the ode, the lyric, and pristine tercets-are juxtaposed with gorgeously fractured and stylistically daring hybrid pieces. Winner of the prestigious Kundiman Prize for Poetry, Lost, Hurt, Or in Transit Beautiful is a luminous and haunting book.

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Non-Fiction

Arriving Today by Christopher Mims 

‘Wall Street Journal technology columnist Mims chronicles a product’s journey from manufacturer to doorstep in his timely debut. . . . Readers will be hooked by Mims’s ability to turn what could’ve been a dry supply-chain explainer into a legitimate page-turner. For those interested in what goes on before packages arrive at their door, this is a no-brainer.’—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers’ demand for “arriving today” gratification.

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Hear Yourself by Prem Rawat

‘Prem Rawat is the Einstein of consciousness.’—Claudio Naranjo, MD, author of The Enneagram of Society

The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to “hear ourselves”—to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly “hear ourselves” and the voice of peace within, then we can hold that within us as we face all the noise of the world. The culmination of a lifetime of study, Hear Yourself lays out the crucial steps we can use to focus on the voice within.

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Active Parenting: How to Raise Your Child to Be Positive by Ramgopal Vallath

What do you want your child to be?

There is no one way to raise a child. Each child is unique and can vary in so many ways in abilities and behavior from others in their group. Ramgopal Vallath, indebted to his own parents for an upbringing that has helped him overcome great challenges and difficulties, set out to meet numerous parents to work out some common guidelines that could help groom a child.

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The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich

‘A talented storyteller.’―New York Times

It started on a subreddit forum called WallStreetBets – a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment tips, laughed about big losses, and posted diamond hand emojis. Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop – a flailing bricks and mortar video-game retailer – and somehow rode a rocket ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight, simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most respected funds on the street.

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The Status Game by Will Storr 

‘I haven’t finished reading The Status Game because I’ve only read it once. There’s so much in this dazzling book I will be revisiting over and over again’—Daniel Finkelstein, author of Everything in Moderation

From the era of the hunter-gatherer to today, when we exist as workers in the globalised economy and citizens of online worlds, the need for status has always been wired into us. But why is status such an all-consuming prize? What happens if it’s taken away from us? And how can our unquenchable thirst for it explain cults, moral panics, conspiracy theories, the rise of social media and the ‘culture wars’ of today?

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The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir by Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju 

Based on previously unseen classified intelligence reports and police records, this book recreates the circumstances of his murder, the events leading up to it, and the investigation afterward. In doing so, it unearths a conspiracy that runs far deeper than a hate crime and challenges the popular narrative about the assassination that has persisted for the past seventy years.

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India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win by Syed Akbaruddin

Unwilling at first, India was prompted to enter the ring in the wake of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The contest that followed proved to be a ‘second war of Independence’ in the words of then foreign minister Sushma Swaraj – and a David-and-Goliath fight against the permanent members of the Security Council, who all put their might behind the UK.

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The Future of Money by Eswar S. Prasad

‘In The Future of Money Eswar Prasad explains how technology will impact everything financial, from what money will look like to peer-to-peer lending, central banking, and cross-border capital flows. In lucid prose, Prasad explains to the intelligent layperson how exactly Bitcoin works and whether a digital renminbi could challenge the US dollar. If you are looking for an insightful and comprehensive guide to how monetary finance might change, look no further.’Raghuram G. Rajan, Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and governments alike embrace the possibilities of new financial technologies. As Eswar Prasad explains, the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and indeed all of us. The transformation of money will fundamentally rewrite how ordinary people live.

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Children & Young Adult

Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest by Aisling Fowler 

‘In a word: phenomenal. Fireborn is vivid, daring, and epic in every sense. It’s impossible to read this book and not hold your breath.’—Carlie Sarosiak, author of I, Cosmo

Twelve has spoken the Pledge and now she is a Huntling. She has given up her name to train in the art of fighting monsters and keeping the peace, and she won’t get to choose a new one until she has earned it.

But when the Lodge’s walls are breached for the first time, and a little girl is taken, Twelve is the only one interested in going after a child . . .

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When Fishes Flew by Michael Morpurgo 

Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors’ home in Ithaca, and discovers – through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish – the extraordinary story of her great-aunt Elena; of how she fell in love, in the hardest of times, and how of how she became an unsung hero of World War Two.

But Elena has gone missing, and Nandi has to find her. In her search, she will discover that Elena was an even greater hero than she thought – and still is…

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Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen 

Pax the book is like Pax the fox: half wild and wholly beautiful.’—New York Times

It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives.

Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Meanwhile Peter—newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt and loneliness—leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined to heal the land from the scars of the war.

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Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket  

Poison for Breakfast is a book to savour. Every sentence is perfectly balanced to surprise, delight, intrigue and, yes, bewilder the reader. A book about impending death which captures the simple, but profound, joys of being alive. I am a long-time Lemony Snicket fan and this is his best yet.’—Sarah Hagger-Holt, author of Nothing Ever Happens Here

This true story – as true as Lemony Snicket himself – begins with a puzzling note under his door: You had poison for breakfast. Following a winding trail of clues to solve the mystery of his own demise, Snicket takes us on a thought-provoking tour of his predilections…

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