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1) Womb city
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This genre-bending African-futurist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
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"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist...
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A treasure of Mexico's cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninn̤ Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera a female nightclub dancer who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father.