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  • Blue by Prophète, Emmelie
    Emmelie Prophète

    Blue

    An award-winning Haitian novel about silence, beauty, and the solidarity of tears.Airports are distillations of the world. I like thinking of them that way. The hope of leaving and the desire to come home, existing side by side. Any voyage is possible. My mind...
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  • Sydney via Siberia by Strungs, Inara
    Inara Strungs

    Sydney via Siberia

    On a midsummer's night in 1941, a family is illegally arrested, by order of Stalin, in cosmopolitan Rīga, Latvia, and deported in cattle wagons to the frozen wilderness of Siberia. Sixty years later, the son, Laimonis aka Lucky, now an actor, visits Sydney and...
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  • Perpetual West Lib/E by Maren, Mesha
    Mesha Maren

    Perpetual West Lib/E

    The riveting, brilliant new novel by the critically-acclaimed author of Sugar Run Perpetual West is an ambitious novel rendered in striking, sensual prose. Maren creates a vivid, precise, and complex sense of place; she shows us how cultural and physical geography shape who we...
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  • Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy by Bassiouney, Reem
    Reem Bassiouney

    Sons of the People: The Mamluk Trilogy

    This monumental family saga offers a vivid portrait of Egypt's Mamluk period, one that is at both sweeping in scope and intimate in detail. Set in medieval Cairo, the novel centers on three generations of Egyptians, foreign-born Mamluks, and their descendants as their trials...
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  • Moon Walking: Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Book Award by Unkovic, Barbara
    Barbara Unkovic

    Moon Walking: Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Book Award

    From the shores of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the former Yugoslavia in the Adriatic Sea and in-between, comes a diverse, thought-provoking collection of tales with a touch of surrealism thrown in.Visit Goli Otok, Marshall Tito's private concentration camp,...
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  • Islands Of Fire by Rosano, Dick
    Dick Rosano

    Islands Of Fire

    When Luca went to Sicily in search of his parents' roots, he didn't count on meeting Vito: a wizened old man who seemed to embody the history of the island in his bones. He also didn't count on Vito taking him back centuries -...
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  • The Spirits in My Head by Zhong, Megan
    Megan Zhong

    The Spirits in My Head

    "I just wanted to be myself, someone who would be free enough to move the line around, between Chinese and American within a wider range and far outside of the spectrum." Mae Li is a Chinese-American graduate student trying to claim her independence as...
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  • John The Old Saxon: King Alfred and the Revival of Anglo-Saxon Learning by Broughton, John
    John Broughton

    John The Old Saxon: King Alfred and the Revival of Anglo-Saxon Learning

    In his darkest hour, hiding in the depths of the Somerset marshes in 878 AD, King Alfred devises a scheme to save his kingdom from the Vikings threatening to overwhelm the country.His spectacular success, beginning with the triumphant battle of Ethandun, involves creating a...
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  • Love and Life Behind the Purdah by Sorabji, Cornelia
    Cornelia Sorabji

    Love and Life Behind the Purdah

    Love and Life Behind the Purdah (1901) is a collection of short stories by Indian writer, lawyer, and social reformer Cornelia Sorabji. Raised by Christian missionaries, Sorabji trained as a lawyer at Oxford University before returning to India to work with women and orphans...
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  • Apartheid: Lives Divided by Duncan, Bill
    Bill Duncan

    Apartheid: Lives Divided

    Colonialism, Racism and ApartheidA brutal self-analysis on the origins of racism in Southern Africa as seen through the eyes of a third-generation white African.Duncan presents a no-holds-barred picture of the true savagery of Colonialism by all ethnic groups in the years spanning two centuries....
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  • The Lake Wobegon Virus by Keillor, Garrison
    Garrison Keillor

    The Lake Wobegon Virus

    Author: Garrison KeillorISBN-10: 1665111763ISBN-13: 9781665111768Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2020Format: CDWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d
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  • Pasquale Stiso's True Story and Other Works: A Critical Introduction and Bilingual Edition by Stiso, Pasquale
    Pasquale Stiso

    Pasquale Stiso's "True Story" and Other Works: A Critical Introduction and Bilingual Edition

    "In bringing the 'cautionary' tale of Pasquale Stiso and his elegiac musings to a new audience, Ruberto and Verdicchio perform a generous and necessary act of cultural anthropology, reinvigorating an historical memory in danger of succumbing to amnesia. Stiso's life, death, and writings challenged...
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  • Evil Eye by Rum, Etaf
    Etaf Rum

    Evil Eye

    An NPR Best Book of the Year"A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!"--Tara Conklin, New York...
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  • Sonny's Vendetta: Suspense and Spaghetti in South Philly by Attiani, Michael
    Michael Attiani

    Sonny's Vendetta: Suspense and Spaghetti in South Philly

    In 1915 Italy, a teenaged girl believed she had conjured the perfect lie to protect herself. Even though she deserved the full weight of responsibility for her foolish recklessness, the lie deftly deflected all blame to her innocent, oblivious best friend, Fredo, who was...
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  • In Truth by Auburne, Arti
    Arti Auburne

    In Truth

    In the grinding poverty of the post-war prairies, little Am駘ie Marchand always seems to be in the way. The youngest daughter of dirt-poor French-Canadian farmers, she must negotiate linguistic tensions, familial secrets, and the coldness of her unstable mother. In this fraught context, her...
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  • Ramadan Ramsey by Edwards, Louis
    Louis Edwards

    Ramadan Ramsey

    The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension that it bedevils his destiny before he is even born. Spanning from the Deep...
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  • Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel

    In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times. . . . No wonder Hillerman's stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling.-- New York Times Book ReviewFrom the enduring national and literary cultural...
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  • Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel

    In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times. . . . No wonder Hillerman's stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling.-- New York Times Book ReviewFrom the enduring national and literary cultural...
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  • Stargazer Low Price CD: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Hillerman, Anne
    Anne Hillerman

    Stargazer Low Price CD: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

    Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, set amid the beautiful landscape of the American Southwest.What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito--serving a...
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  • Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under by Edelson, Phyllis Fahrie
    Phyllis Fahrie Edelson

    Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under

    Spanning more than a century, Australian Literature crystallizes a spirit, style, and ethos found nowhere else in world literature. These captivating selections in Australian Literature come from major voices, both famous and lesser known, and encompass short stories, memoirs, novels and aboriginal writings. Resonant...
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  • Grace by Lynch, Paul
    Paul Lynch

    Grace

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Prophet Song, a sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. Early one October morning, Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off...
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  • Brownsville by Casares, Oscar
    Oscar Casares

    Brownsville

    "Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It...
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  • The Wasted Vigil by Aslam, Nadeem
    Nadeem Aslam

    The Wasted Vigil

    In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There's Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a...
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  • Frog by Yan, Mo
    Mo Yan

    Frog

    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK "Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garc? M疵quez have." --Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck ClubFrom the Nobel-prize winning...
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  • Drifting House by Lee, Krys
    Krys Lee

    Drifting House

    Set in Korea and the United States from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut illuminates a people struggling to reconcile the turmoil of their collective past with the rewards and challenges of their present. Amid the famine in North...
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  • Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Jaswal, Balli Kaur
    Balli Kaur Jaswal

    Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Reese's Book Club Pick

    Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.Every woman has a secret life . . .Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London,...
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  • Thief of Time by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Thief of Time

    Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! "All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous."--USA TodayFrom New York Times bestselling...
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  • Free Men by Smith, Katy Simpson
    Katy Simpson Smith

    Free Men

    From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions--an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian--who are being tracked down...
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  • The Writing on My Forehead by Haji, Nafisa
    Nafisa Haji

    The Writing on My Forehead

    A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, making the world her home. But when tragedy strikes, throwing Saira's life into turmoil, the woman...
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  • Landlocked by Lessing, Doris
    Doris Lessing

    Landlocked

    "Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel...crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of judgment and her gift for diagnosing our hydra-headed social ills is extraordinary." -- The...
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  • Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn and Chee Audio Trilogy: Skinwalkers, a Thief of Time & Coyote Waits CD by Hillerman, Tony
    Tony Hillerman

    Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn and Chee Audio Trilogy: Skinwalkers, a Thief of Time & Coyote Waits CD

    Three of New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's most popular novels--a must-have anthology from one of the great masters of suspense.Audio includes: Skinwalkers: Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. Chee survives to join...
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  • Correcting the Landscape by Cole, Marjorie Kowalski
    Marjorie Kowalski Cole

    Correcting the Landscape

    The editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska, Gus Traynor is an independent spirit whose idealism has survived numerous tests. When big business interests threaten the breathtaking wilderness he cherishes, he joins forces with his best friend--an often self-serving developer--to take on...
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  • Benefit Street by Bernardi, Adria
    Adria Bernardi

    Benefit Street

    Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination For nearly two decades, Şiva...
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  • Radiant Fugitives by Ahmed, Nawaaz
    Nawaaz Ahmed

    Radiant Fugitives

    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR PUBLISHING TRIANGLE'S EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARDIn the last weeks of her pregnancy, a Muslim Indian lesbian living in San Francisco receives a visit from her estranged mother and sister that surfaces long held secrets...
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  • Dispersal by Kachachi, Inaam
    Inaam Kachachi

    The Dispersal

    Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, The Dispersal is a timely and insightful novel about displacement, loss, poetry, war, and migration from a leading Arab voice. Tashari, the title of the novel in Arabic, is an Iraqi word for a shot from...
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  • The Three Bundles: Volume IV of Glimpses into Yorùbá Culture by Ògúnlàna, O̩la&#7
    O̩la Ògúnlàna

    The Three Bundles: Volume IV of Glimpses into Yorùbá Culture

    Young journalist Tanímò̩la investigates the story of 'they mystery man in the woods' at Abà Kòsas̩ègbé, rumored to be the notorious moneylender Laiyemo̩ of Agbajó̩ town. Tanímò̩la's family is intimately tied to the story, as his grandfather, Náyà, was neighbor, childhood friend and rival...
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  • Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life by Satthianadhan, Krupabai
    Krupabai Satthianadhan

    Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life

    Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life (1894) is a novel by Krupabai Satthianadhan. Published the year of Satthianadhan's tragic death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-two, Kamala is a powerful bildungsroman that provides an early feminist perspective on issues of religion, class, and...
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  • Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation by Hayford, J. E. Casley
    J. E. Casley Hayford

    Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation

    Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911) is a novel by J. E. Casely Hayford. Published at the height of his career as a politician, journalist, and activist, Ethiopia Unbound is considered the first pan-Africanist work of fiction and among the earliest English novels...
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  • Exodus of the Storks by Nabhan, Walid
    Walid Nabhan

    Exodus of the Storks

    The first English translation of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature winner Nabil, a Palestinian exile who has made his life on the Mediterranean island of Malta, has his equilibrium shattered when he receives a phone call telling him that his father has...
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  • The Tusk That Did the Damage by James, Tania
    Tania James

    The Tusk That Did the Damage

    A wrenching exploration of love and betrayal, duty and loyalty, and the vexed relationship between man and nature--from the acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns. - "Impressive ... captivating." --The New York Times Book ReviewThe Tusk That Did the Damage is an utterly contemporary...
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  • Zabelle by Kricorian, Nancy
    Nancy Kricorian

    Zabelle

    Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle's childhood in the waning days of Ottoman...
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  • The Doorman by Arenas, Reinaldo
    Reinaldo Arenas

    The Doorman

    Reinaldo Arenas is the most highly acclaimed writer of Cuba's post-revolutionary generation. The Doorman, his first work set in the United States, breaks new ground with the extraordinary and tragic story of Juan, a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury...
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  • Irish Above All by Kelly, Mary Pat
    Mary Pat Kelly

    Irish Above All

    Mary Pat Kelly draws upon family heritage to continue the story of Nora Kelly--begun in Of Irish Blood--with a striking novel of historical fiction in Irish Above All. After ten years in Paris, where she learned photography and became part of the movement that...
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  • The Romeo Club: Restless Old Men Eating Out by Graziano, Vincent
    Vincent Graziano

    The Romeo Club: Restless Old Men Eating Out

    The sleepy hamlet of Inlet Cove in Westchester, New York, is about to have some excitement. After his attempted rubout and subsequent arrest, Tim Collins must reveal his secret. He's been living a double life. His best friends know him as a good humored...
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  • The Granny by O'Carroll, Brendan
    Brendan O'Carroll

    The Granny

    The New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending." With the forthcoming second book in the trilogy, The Chisellers, and a movie about The Mammy...
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  • Brass by Aliu, Xhenet
    Xhenet Aliu

    Brass

    "A fierce, big-hearted, unflinching debut"* novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream *Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere WINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL - NAMED ONE OF...
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  • The Chosen Place, the Timeless People by Marshall, Paule
    Paule Marshall

    The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

    The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants--black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between...
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  • The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

    In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments-caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience.A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors...
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  • Baking Cakes in Kigali by Parkin, Gaile
    Gaile Parkin

    Baking Cakes in Kigali

    "All the sun and magic of Africa are baked into Gaile Parkin's debut novel. . . . We peek into a warm and practical community as colorful as the heroine's] dazzling confections."--The Christian Science Monitor This soaring novel introduces us to Angel Tungaraza: mother,...
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  • Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny by Peacock, Thomas D.
    Thomas D. Peacock

    Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny

    Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny is the story of Donovan Manypenny. Raised by his grandparents on a northern Wisconsin Ojibwe reservation until their passing when he is ten years old, he becomes a ward of the state of Wisconsin and enters the...
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