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  • The White Girl by Birch, Tony
    Tony Birch

    The White Girl

    A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling.--GuardianAustralia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores...
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  • Ophelia's Muse by Cameron, Rita
    Rita Cameron

    Ophelia's Muse

    "I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. You are my muse. Without you there is no art in me." With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. Working...
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  • A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Nayeri, Dina
    Dina Nayeri

    A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

    From the author of Refuge, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture.Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated...
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  • Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War by Djebar, Assia
    Assia Djebar

    Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War

    Assia Djebar, one of the most distinguished woman writers to emerge from the Arab world, wrote Children of the New World following her own involvement in the Algerian resistance to colonial French rule. Like the classic film The Battle of Algiers--enjoying renewed interest in...
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  • A Place to Call Home by Jensen, Marion Siebert
    Marion Siebert Jensen

    A Place to Call Home

    When the Czar breaks his promise to respect the pacificist ideals of the Mennonite community, Katharina and Hoinz make the momentous decision to uproot their family to seek religious and economic freedom. They pack up their eleven children, a few material possessions, and one...
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  • Metis: Mixed Blood Stories by Ponton, Lynn E.
    Lynn E. Ponton

    Metis: Mixed Blood Stories

    The M騁is are the descendants of Cree and Assiniboine women who joined with French and Scottish men to raise children and shape a hybrid culture in the heart of Canada. In "M騁is, Mixed Blood Stories," four generations of adolescents come of age during their...
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  • Desirable Daughters by Mukherjee, Bharati
    Bharati Mukherjee

    Desirable Daughters

    "The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly [starred review]) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new--now available in paperback. In...
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  • Boy Underground by Hyde, Catherine Ryan
    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Boy Underground

    During WWII, a teenage boy finds his voice, the courage of his convictions, and friends for life in an emotional and uplifting novel by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.1941. Steven Katz is the son of prosperous landowners in rural...
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  • Heaven Has No Ground by Andronikova, Hana
    Hana Andronikova

    Heaven Has No Ground

    Heaven Has No Ground is the fierce, intimate story of Ama, a young woman who is reckoning with the death of her father when she receives her own cancer diagnosis and, contrary to the wishes of family and friends, decides to seek alternative treatments...
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  • The Law of the Heart by Starling, Boris
    Boris Starling

    The Law of the Heart

    Their love is against the laws of a merciless state--but the heart has its own power.For rollercoaster designer Theo, living on the edge is just part of the job. He's used to wandering the world perfecting thrills, his heart immune to commitment. But then...
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  • The Other Morgans by Seaton, Carter Taylor
    Carter Taylor Seaton

    The Other Morgans

    "She'd been born and raised on her Fayette County mountain in West 'by God' Virginia, and in all her thirty-three years had never stepped foot outside the state's borders. Her family and that mountain had overshadowed her entire unremarkable life. It wasn't that she...
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  • Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthologyvolume 12 by Swan, Dane
    Dane Swan

    Changing the Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology Volume 12

    A g call to action and accountability. - Shelagh RogersNeedless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to...
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  • The Transatlantic Book Club by Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
    Felicity Hayes-McCoy

    The Transatlantic Book Club

    The beloved author of The Mistletoe Matchmaker returns with an enchanting new novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thayer, about residents of Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula who set up a Skype book club with the little US town of Resolve,...
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  • Black Card by Terry, Chris L.
    Chris L. Terry

    Black Card

    In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this "wise meditation on race, authenticity, and belonging" (Nylon). Chris L. Terry's Black Card is an uncompromising examination of American...
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  • The Other Sister by Hill, Donna
    Donna Hill

    The Other Sister

    When it turns out your life is built on a lie, how do you even start to find yourself? In this stunning follow-up to A House Divided, author Donna Hill reveals one woman's challenge to peel back the layers of her identity--and hopefully gain...
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  • On the Banks of River Sarayu: Untold Stories of the Women of India by Sen, Bharati
    Bharati Sen

    On the Banks of River Sarayu: Untold Stories of the Women of India

    On the Banks of River Sarayu is a compilation of nineteen stories reflecting the lives of hidden individuals, particularly women, living in the lower strata of Indian society. Each story introduces characters who are seemingly ordinary, but test the complex realities of identity, class,...
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  • Bom Boy by Omotoso, Yewande
    Yewande Omotoso

    Bom Boy

    From the Dublin Literary Award and Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted author of The Woman Next Door and An Unusual Grief Winner of the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize Shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature Featured in the New York...
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  • "muslim" by Rahmani, Zahia
    Zahia Rahmani

    Muslim

    Fiction and lyric essay combine in Zahia Rahmani's poetic reflection on Islamic history and what it means to be Muslim.Author: Zahia RahmaniISBN-10: 1941920756ISBN-13: 9781941920756Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2019Pages: 145Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.40w x 0.40d
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  • Growing Up American by Polo, Rafael
    Rafael Polo

    Growing Up American

    In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fidel Castro took power, he promised free elections, but instead, he became the country's new dictator, and a communist one at that. Marco's family did not...
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  • At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    At the End of the Century: The Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize-winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth...
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  • All Inclusive by Doctor, Farzana
    Farzana Doctor

    All Inclusive

    A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can't forget.What's it like when everyone's dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise -- if "paradise" means endless...
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  • Equal of the Sun by Amirrezvani, Anita
    Anita Amirrezvani

    Equal of the Sun

    *"Gripping." --The Washington Post * " A story of intrigue and action...[whose] scheming and parricide rival A Game of Thrones." --San Francisco Chronicle* Based loosely on the life of Princess Pari Khan Khanoom, Equal of the Sun is a riveting story of political intrigue...
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  • The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf by Woolf, Virginia
    Virginia Woolf

    The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf's development and evolution as a writer are highlighted in these 23 exceptional short stories. This collection pores over the intimate details of life in beautiful poetic prose. These brilliant pieces of short fiction incapsulate classic 20th century modernism. Particularly celebrated stories, such...
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  • The Waves by Woolf, Virginia
    Virginia Woolf

    The Waves

    Arguably her most experimental work, "The Waves" is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf that comprises soliloquies by six characters punctuated by third-person descriptions of a coastal scene. Through her characters, Woolf examines the concepts of self, individuality, and community in a poignant and...
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  • The Years by Woolf, Virginia
    Virginia Woolf

    The Years

    The last of Virginia Woolf's novels published during her lifetime. "The Years" (1937) is seemingly epic in scope, spanning fifty years and the trials and tribulations of an extended family, but remains in-depth and personal focusing on a single day in each chosen year...
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  • Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas by Parsons, Elsie Clews
    Elsie Clews Parsons

    Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Elsie Clews ParsonsISBN-10: 1444684302ISBN-13: 9781444684308Publisher:...
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  • Swami and Friends, the Bachelor of Arts, the Dark Room, the English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith by Narayan, R. K.
    R. K. Narayan

    Swami and Friends, the Bachelor of Arts, the Dark Room, the English Teacher: Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

    R. K. Narayan (1906--2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts...
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  • Queen of Dreams by Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Queen of Dreams

    From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area...
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  • Selection Day by Adiga, Aravind
    Aravind Adiga

    Selection Day

    From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Amnesty, a "ferociously brilliant" (Slate) novel about two brothers coming of age in a Mumbai slum, raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be cricket champions. *A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * AN NPR...
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  • A Story of Kwanzaa: First Fruits: How the Kwanzaa Festival Began by Chandler, Dee
    Dee Chandler

    A Story of Kwanzaa: First Fruits: How the Kwanzaa Festival Began

    A Story of Kwanzaa & Festival Guide is a fictional story about how the festival of Kwanzaa began. Set in ancient Africa, the story introduces Mama and Baba Kwanzaa, literally mother and father Kwanzaa to the reader. These individuals are the two main characters...
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  • Babe: The Remarkable Family of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox by MacDonald, Roger a.
    Roger a. MacDonald

    Babe: The Remarkable Family of Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox

    It is 1880 when the widow Sarah McAllfry is approached by the son of a former slave who asks her to teach him in her all-white schoolhouse. As a cold resolve claims Sarah, she decides that education is a right for every citizen in...
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  • The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Illustrated by H. J. Ford by Lang, Andrew
    Andrew Lang

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Illustrated by H. J. Ford

    This is Andrew Lang's 1898 English-language translation of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was anthologised over hundreds of years by a variety of scholars, authors, and translators...
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  • Aladdin's Picture Book - Illustrated by Walter Crane by Crane, Walter
    Walter Crane

    Aladdin's Picture Book - Illustrated by Walter Crane

    The classic Middle Eastern story of Aladdin is presented here in this modern edition, beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane. The famous tale is part of the widely-known collection "One Thousand and One Nights", added in the 18th century by Frenchman Antoine Galland. It tells...
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  • Dream Of The Red Chamber: Book II (Hung Lou Meng) by Joly, H. Bencraft
    H. Bencraft Joly

    Dream Of The Red Chamber: Book II (Hung Lou Meng)

    Dream of the Red Chamber is a masterpiece of Chinese literature and one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the mid-18th century during the Qing Dynasty and is generally acknowledged to be a pinnacle of Chinese fiction. The novel is...
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  • The Nights of Straparola - Vol I by Straparola, Giovanni Francesco
    Giovanni Francesco Straparola

    The Nights of Straparola - Vol I

    Volume I of the first English translation of 'The Nights of Straparola', originally published in 1894. A collection of stories in two volumes written by the Italian Renaissance author, Giovanni Francesco Straparola during the fifteenth century. The two volumes are divided into nights, where...
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  • Don't Make a Sign on the Boat, Stories from Burma by U. Nyaneinda
    U. Nyaneinda

    Don't Make a Sign on the Boat, Stories from Burma

    A collection of stories from Myanmar (Burma), told by Sayadaw UNyaneinda, Abbot of the old Burmese Temple in Bodhgaya and written down in this form by Susanne Isabel Krajanek, born in Austria and living in Bodhgaya, India, for many years. Hidden in most of...
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  • Dream of the Red Chamber by Joly, H. Bencraft
    H. Bencraft Joly

    Dream of the Red Chamber

    Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as "The Story of the Stone", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. the book begins with the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins:...
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  • The Teahouse Fire by Avery, Ellis
    Ellis Avery

    The Teahouse Fire

    "Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties--each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious."--Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in...
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  • The Little Town Where Time Stood Still by Hrabal, Bohumil
    Bohumil Hrabal

    The Little Town Where Time Stood Still

    The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as "Czechoslovakia's greatest writer." "Cutting It Short" is set before World War II in a small country town, and it relates the scandalizing...
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  • Motherland by Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta
    Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

    Motherland

    Over the course of a single transformative summer, an American teenager travels to southern India to visit her relatives and gains new insight into her past, her family and her heritage. Born in Kerala, Maya spent the first four years of her life there,...
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  • A Short Walk by Childress, Alice
    Alice Childress

    A Short Walk

    A Short Walk is a sweeping epic novel, which captures the movement of black Americans from the rural south to the urban north. Cora James, born to a black woman who has had a love affair with a white man, grows up poor in...
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  • Darcy and Elizabeth: Love Blooms at Pemberley: A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation by Knightley, Cassandra
    Cassandra Knightley

    Darcy and Elizabeth: Love Blooms at Pemberley: A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation

    Escape to the polite society of Pride & Prejudice in this sweet, clean variation. In the aftermath of Elizabeth's rejection of Mr Darcy, the worst possible outcome has befallen the Bennet family. Mr Bennet has died unexpectedly, leaving his widow and unmarried daughters at...
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  • The Birdwoman's Palate by Pamuntjak, Laksmi
    Laksmi Pamuntjak

    The Birdwoman's Palate

    In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman's road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies.Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when...
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  • Counting Coup by Church, Rick
    Rick Church

    Counting Coup

    Ex-cop and Native American private investigator Noel Two Horses is hired by a well-to-do madame to help clear her decorated Navy corpsman kid-brother who has been recently discharged from the Navy and is now framed for the murder of a Phoenix, Arizona stripper. Two...
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  • To Give a Rose by Ailanthus, Caroline
    Caroline Ailanthus

    To Give a Rose

    Artist Sophie Smith "listens" to fossils to seek inspiration, but her latest subjects, a pair of ape-like human ancestors, millions of years old, could give her something else as well. Never has she needed a clear perspective on human descent so much, for now...
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  • The Temptation of Destiny by Earley, D. M.
    D. M. Earley

    The Temptation of Destiny

    Destiny is complex in the 21st century: sometimes destiny tempts us, and sometimes we tempt destiny. Either way, every choice brings consequences, as Jake and Dakota are about to discover. WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Literary Fiction"Suspenseful, intriguing and powerfully tense, this...
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  • Bivouac by Dawes, Kwame
    Kwame Dawes

    Bivouac

    "Few other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well. Protagonist Ferron Morgan agonizes over his father's death, maybe from a doctor's mistake, maybe from a radical rival's hands. Meanwhile, he's running from everything, including his own emotions about his fianc馥--with sad results. Bivouac is...
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  • Mouths Don't Speak by Ulysse, Katia D.
    Katia D. Ulysse

    Mouths Don't Speak

    Honorable Mention in the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Longlist After the 2010 Haiti earthquake kills her parents, a woman returns to Haiti after leaving it as a child, 25 years ago. A powerful and engrossing story, this read cannot be missed.--Bustle,...
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  • Praise Song for the Butterflies by McFadden, Bernice L.
    Bernice L. McFadden

    Praise Song for the Butterflies

    Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for FictionA Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2019 Honor title, Fiction"McFadden, writer of great, imaginative novels for years now (including Sugar and Gathering of Waters), is back with one of her best yet. Exploring ritual sacrifice...
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  • Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean by Peekash Press
    Peekash Press

    Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean

    "This wonderful anthology of fresh voices from the Caribbean...includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The diverse textures of the stories by 13 established and new authors weave a tapestry of the islands, water, sand, ocean...
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