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‘Everything Inside: Stories,’ by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf, Aug. 27)

Haiti is the emotional core of this collection, though the characters roam the world. In these rich, vibrant stories, lovers reconcile after a catastrophe, a daughter meets her dying father for the first and last time and a family reunites at a baby’s christening.

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‘Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have,’ by Tatiana Schlossberg (Grand Central, Aug. 27)

A former climate reporter for The Times, Schlossberg exposes the ways that our daily lives contribute to climate change. Focusing on food, fashion, technology and fuel, she shows how even the smallest decisions can have profound environmental consequences.

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‘Inland,’ by Téa Obreht (Random House, Aug. 13)

This long-awaited new novel from the author of “The Tiger’s Wife” unfolds in the American West in the 1800s, shifting between the perspectives of two remarkable characters. Lurie, an outlaw who immigrated to the United States as a child, is haunted by ghosts and can see the dead. Nora is a homesteader awaiting the return of her husband, who has gone missing after going to retrieve water, and two of her sons, who have disappeared after an argument.

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‘The Memory Police,’ by Yoko Ogawa (Pantheon, Aug. 13)

Objects are disappearing on an unnamed island — calendars, ribbons, even birds — and the people who notice are subject to frightening repercussions from the Memory Police. When a young novelist realizes her editor has become a police target, she hides him in her home. The novel, translated by Stephen Snyder, explores questions of power, trauma and state surveillance.