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  • The Roving Tree by Augustave, Elsie
    Elsie Augustave

    The Roving Tree

    One of the South Florida Times's Best Bets For Your Weekend Essence Magazine: Summer Reading Pick Augustave, a first-time novelist, pens a well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage...a polished narrative that addresses racism...
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  • Once Upon the River Love by Makine, Andreï
    Andreï Makine

    Once Upon the River Love

    In the immense virgin pine forests of Siberia, where the snows of winter are vast and endless, sits the little village of Svetlaya. Once, the village had been larger, more prosperous, but time and the pendulum of history had reduced it by the 1970s...
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  • The Pyramid by Kadare, Ismail
    Ismail Kadare

    The Pyramid

    Egypt in the twenty-sixth century BC. The young pharaoh Cheops wants to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. The pyramid, they tell him, is not a tomb but a paradox, designed to...
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  • The Republic of Wine by Yan, Mo
    Mo Yan

    The Republic of Wine

    This translation originally published in 2000.Author: Mo YanISBN-10: 1611457297ISBN-13: 9781611457292Publisher: Arcade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2012Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.97d
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  • A Dream of Kings by Petrakis, Harry Mark
    Harry Mark Petrakis

    A Dream of Kings

    A finalist for the National Book Award in its original edition, this classic American novel from acclaimed Chicago storyteller Harry Mark Petrakis is being brought back into print in conjunction with the publication of Petrakis's latest memoir, Song of My Life.At the heart of...
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  • Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry by Graham, Patricia H.
    Patricia H. Graham

    Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry

    Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-phones, computers and television, family members would gather on the front porch and offer up stories through simple oral traditions. These stories...
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  • Belonging by Sinha, Umi
    Umi Sinha

    Belonging

    Umi Sinha's unforgettable debut is an intense, compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, of race and ethnicity, of homeland - and of belonging. Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father's...
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  • A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite by Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
    Lewis Grassic Gibbon

    A Scots Quair: Sunset Song: Cloud Howe: Grey Granite

    Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal joys and sorrows of Chris' life with the greater...
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  • My Enemy's Cherry Tree by Wang, Ting-Kuo
    Ting-Kuo Wang

    My Enemy's Cherry Tree

    A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream love. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small caf in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping...
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  • The Village: A Novel of Wartime Crete by Duke, Philip
    Philip Duke

    The Village: A Novel of Wartime Crete

    A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together...Her grieving son finds a new life in the Cretan Resistance...A naive English soldier unwillingly finds the warrior in himself...And a fanatical German paratrooper is forced...
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  • In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills by Haupt, Jennifer
    Jennifer Haupt

    In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills

    ...more than a page-turning narrative; it's an embrace of the Kinyarwanda greeting amahoro--'peace.'--Oprah.com An evocative page-turner and an eye-opening meditation on the ways we survive profoundly painful memories and negotiate the complexities of love."--Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much is True Finalist...
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  • Locust Girl: A Lovesong by Bobis, Merlinda
    Merlinda Bobis

    Locust Girl: A Lovesong

    Most everything has dried up: water, the womb, even the love among lovers. Hunger is rife and survival desperate, except across the border. One night, a village is bombed for attempting to cross the border. Nine-year old Amedea is buried underground and sleeps to...
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  • Cane Fires: Short Stories by Philpotts, Kaui
    Kaui Philpotts

    Cane Fires: Short Stories

    In the time after World War II when the Hawaiian islands were still blanketed with fields of sugar cane and pineapple, the myriad of ethnic races living in plantation camps have only just begun to inter-marry in greater numbers. In the midst of these...
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  • Recitation by Bae, Suah
    Suah Bae

    Recitation

    "Bae Suah offers the chance to un-know--to see the every-day afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know--which is no small offering."--Music & LiteratureThe meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the...
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  • The House of Pride: and Other Tales of Hawaii by London, Jack
    Jack London

    The House of Pride: and Other Tales of Hawaii

    The stories in this collection include some of London's finest South Seas tales. In them, Hawaii is portrayed, not as a tropical paradise, but as a land corrupted and despoiled by the arrival of the supposedly civilized white settlers. The tales include "Koolau the...
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  • The Eternal Zero by Hyakuta, Naoki
    Naoki Hyakuta

    The Eternal Zero

    Your grandfather was a coward. That is the angry recollection with which a former Zero fighter pilot greets two Japanese siblings who, typically, despite being educated, know next to nothing about a defining war in the Pacific that took place within living memory. The...
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  • Ruins by Obejas, Achy
    Achy Obejas

    Ruins

    "Daring, tough, and deeply compassionate, Achy Obejas's Ruins is a breathtaker. Obejas writes like an angel, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of Cuba's most important writers." --Junot Díaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction"[An] honest and superbly written book."...
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  • Sixty Acres and a Barn by Lewis, Alfred
    Alfred Lewis

    Sixty Acres and a Barn

    Sixty Acres and a Barn tells the captivating coming-of-age story of Luis Sarmento, an immigrant from the Azores who finds in America tolerance, prosperity, and emotional fulfillment. This fascinating slice of immigrant life in California dairy farming explores in lyrical, realistic, and insightful prose...
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  • The House of Cain by Upfield, Arthur W.
    Arthur W. Upfield

    The House of Cain

    Here is Arthur Upfield's first published novel from 1929: Austilene Thorpe is accused of murder but then disappears from gaol. Her fiance, Martin Sherwood, goes blind from shock. His famous adventuring brother Monty, learns that Austilene is in a refuge for murderers in the...
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  • Breakaway House by Upfield, Arthur W.
    Arthur W. Upfield

    Breakaway House

    Harry Tremayne, a policeman, goes to an isolated valley in the remote Murchison region of Western Australia to find his brother - who vanished a month earlier while investigating the murder of a police detective. Do the gold smugglers at Breakaway House hold the...
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  • The Kissing Fence by Thomas-Peter, B. a.
    B. a. Thomas-Peter

    The Kissing Fence

    1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP, the children attend mandatory school. They...
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  • City of Jasmine by Grjasnowa, Olga
    Olga Grjasnowa

    City of Jasmine

    A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus Syria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland,...
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  • Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights by Straight, Susan
    Susan Straight

    Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

    "A writer of exceptional gifts and grace." --Joyce Carol Oates A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him. A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, Darnell Tucker works part-time as the...
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  • The Seamstress of Ourfa by Harwood Butler-Sloss, Victoria
    Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss

    The Seamstress of Ourfa

    The Seamstress of Ourfa richly recreates the culture of the Armenian community in Ourfa at the tail end of the Ottoman Empire.The eponymous seamstress, Khatoun, creates beautiful dresses that leave her customers' husbands dizzy with desire, while her sister in law Ferida cooks sumptuous...
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  • Cairo Swan Song by Said, Mekkawi
    Mekkawi Said

    Cairo Swan Song

    In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairo's famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never really believed in the slogans, sets out to tell their story through a documentary he is making with his American...
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  • The Hashish Waiter by Shalaby, Khairy
    Khairy Shalaby

    The Hashish Waiter

    Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem's den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the center of...
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  • The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor by Haddad, Rana
    Rana Haddad

    The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor

    Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is exiled to live with her grandparents in England. Many years...
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  • The Hashish Waiter by Shalaby, Khairy
    Khairy Shalaby

    The Hashish Waiter

    Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of fashionable downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem's den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge and a stimulus, and at the center...
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  • The Exile Breed: The Pitiless Epic of the Irish Famine Diaspora by Egan, Charles
    Charles Egan

    The Exile Breed: The Pitiless Epic of the Irish Famine Diaspora

    The Exile Breed is a story of the Irish Famine in Ireland, Canada, England and the USA. The Famine intensified in 1847. Many left, but hunger and fever followed them. Thousands died in the Irish ghettoes of Liverpool, Manchester and London. Many more died...
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  • When the Menorah Fades by Preigerzon, Zvi
    Zvi Preigerzon

    When the Menorah Fades

    This book describes the life of the Jewish people in Hadiach, Ukraine, and their suffering under the Nazis, with a Kabbalistic spiritual touch: the Perpetual Flame of the Menorah at the grave of Chabad founder Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneerson symbolizes the very spirit of...
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  • Storytellers at the Columbia River by Mendenhall, Nancy Danielson
    Nancy Danielson Mendenhall

    Storytellers at the Columbia River

    "A compelling cast... An intriguing novel about a little-known episode in American history... Includes some wonderfully evocative writing about how globally significant events can affect the lives of everyday people." Steve Olson, author of The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic...
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  • Tied with Twine by Records, Pam
    Pam Records

    Tied with Twine

    Halina, a volunteer aide at the hospital, sings Polish folk songs to patients who are too sick to notice. She lives in a neighborhood of Polish immigrants, all entrenched in Old Country ways, all as stubborn as she is. While her befuddled parents struggle...
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  • Heart of the Night by Mahfouz, Naguib
    Naguib Mahfouz

    Heart of the Night

    Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, "let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath." He narrates his life...
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  • House Made of Dawn by Momaday, N. Scott
    N. Scott Momaday

    House Made of Dawn

    The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic from N. Scott MomadayA young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty...
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  • Buried Troubles: A Rosaria O'Reilly Mystery by McMahon Stanley, Marian
    Marian McMahon Stanley

    Buried Troubles: A Rosaria O'Reilly Mystery

    Rosaria O'Reilly finds herself in grave danger from those who won't let go of the past in this thrilling sequel to The Immaculate.Still recovering from injuries sustained during her last effort in solving a murder, Rosaria is dragged into a new case with ties...
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  • Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit: Volume 187 by Mihali, Felicia
    Felicia Mihali

    Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit: Volume 187

    Ten years after her picture on a magazine cover made her nationally famous as The Darling of Kandahar, Irina moves up North hoping that new experiences would allow old wounds to finally heal. Yet, in the land of darkness and polar bears, she learns...
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  • A Cry in the Mist & Other Needmore Valley Tales by Woodward, Doug
    Doug Woodward

    A Cry in the Mist & Other Needmore Valley Tales

    Drawn from wondering what others' lives were like as he walks dirt roads, paddles the rivers and sits in the presence of an old homestead near his Appalachian home, Woodward's Needmore Tales wander through the last three hundred years of history. He connects us...
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  • Pharaoh's Shadow: Foreword by Dr. Zahi Hawass by Madison, Tasha
    Tasha Madison

    Pharaoh's Shadow: Foreword by Dr. Zahi Hawass

    How do you kill a king?First, you start with the queen ...Jealousy. Greed. Power. Deception. Murder. The beginning of the end of a golden empire.When family drama threatens to unseat the rightful heir, palace intrigues rouse a conspiracy to commit murder. Entangled in mystery...
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  • The Red Chief by Idriess, Ion
    Ion Idriess

    The Red Chief

    In times past there was an Aboriginal man called Cumbo Gunnerah His people called him The Red Kangaroo. He was a clever chief and a mighty fighter (this man from Gunnedah) Later, the white people of this place called him The Red Chief.It would...
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  • Down River by Creaghan, Nonie
    Nonie Creaghan

    Down River

    The stories in Down River were collected in the 1950s and 60s by Nonie Creaghan, whose family has lived in the area for generations. The Miramichi River winds its way through a beautiful valley and flows into a bay of the same name. In...
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  • Lineage by Hurd, Michael Paul
    Michael Paul Hurd

    Lineage

    Family roots are often based on legends passed on from one generation to the next. With those legends, certain inaccuracies are injected into the conversation - sometimes to avoid embarrassment; other times, to inflate the persona of the ancestor. Rarely are family histories totally...
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  • The Other Side of Life by Mojiz-Jafry, Mariam
    Mariam Mojiz-Jafry

    The Other Side of Life

    Taking us through the lawless streets of Lahore, Pakistan, The Other Side of Life is a complexly layered retelling of the darkness and tragedy that Farishteh, daughter of a wealthy real estate agent and misogynistic patriarch grapples with. Her inner dialogue and memories of...
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  • The Tomte's Hat by Ruotsala, Birgit
    Birgit Ruotsala

    The Tomte's Hat

    Author and Illustrator Birgit Ruotsala was inspired to write and illustrate books about her love for Scandinavian culture as told by her grandparents. The tomtes that her grandmas taught her about have kept the customs and traditions alive, even when the tomtes are being...
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  • Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel by Escobar, Mario
    Mario Escobar

    Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel

    Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco's parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no...
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  • The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Abu Golayyel, Hamdi
    Hamdi Abu Golayyel

    The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

    CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE This gritty tale of two men's ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling Two Bedouin men from Egypt's Western Desert seek to...
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  • The Black and White Museum by Dennis, Ferdinand
    Ferdinand Dennis

    The Black And White Museum

    From Ferdinand Dennis, the critically acclaimed author of the novel Duppy Conqueror, comes The Black and White Museum, a collection of both highly personal and universal short stories. These at their heart reveal the emotional drama of faded love, the loss of individual and...
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  • A Question Mark Is Half a Heart by Lundberg, Sofia
    Sofia Lundberg

    A Question Mark Is Half a Heart

    How deeply can you love when your heart is full of secrets? A sweeping, propulsive family story about a woman learning to love, from the bustle of New York's fashion scene to a remote, windswept Swedish island, by the acclaimed author of The Red...
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  • Caught Between Worlds by Packer, Lance V.
    Lance V. Packer

    Caught Between Worlds

    In the wilderness of culture conflict, maturation, and Alaska, three teenagers struggle to control their lives... Catherine and Cal are starting their high school senior year in a small, isolated fishing town, and Paul is beginning his seventh-grade adventure. All must decide how to...
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  • Across a Hundred Mountains by Grande, Reyna
    Reyna Grande

    Across a Hundred Mountains

    Winner of the American Book Award, Across a Hundred Mountains is a timely and riveting (People) novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, who left his family to work in America--a story of migration, loss,...
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  • Cut From The Earth by Dos Santos, Stephanie Renee
    Stephanie Renee Dos Santos

    Cut From The Earth

    In 1755, the famous Portuguese tile maker Pêro Manuel Pires is empathetic to a fault. He is dedicated to freeing slaves with the proceeds of his art and hiring the freed to work in his tile factory, triggering rage and repercussions from a competitor.Pêro...
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