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  • Cousin Betty by De Balzac, Honore
    Honore De Balzac

    Cousin Betty

    One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the...
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  • The Big Hunger by Fante, John
    John Fante

    The Big Hunger

    Published here for the first time, this text presents a collection of recently-discovered stories by John Fante.Author: John FanteISBN-10: 1574231200ISBN-13: 9781574231205Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2002Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.90d
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  • A Bit of Difference by Atta, Sefi
    Sefi Atta

    A Bit of Difference

    At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity, and when her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father's five-year memorial service,...
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  • The Cosmopolitans by Schulman, Sarah
    Sarah Schulman

    The Cosmopolitans

    A "captivating, perceptive, and empathic novel of New York" told with "panache and mischievous ebullience" (Booklist, starred review). In this retelling of Balzac's Parisian classic Cousin Bette, Sarah Shulman spins her revenge story in Mad Men-era New York City. Bette, a lonely spinster, has...
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  • Shalom India Housing Society by David, Esther
    Esther David

    Shalom India Housing Society

    Over two thousand years ago, remnants of one of the lost tribes of Israel appeared on the shores of India. They became known in India as the Bene Israel. Nothing has been the same since. After religious riots break out in modern Ahmedabad, a...
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  • Waiting for Tomorrow by Appanah, Nathacha
    Nathacha Appanah

    Waiting for Tomorrow

    A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bondsAnita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met twenty years ago at a New Year's Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place--he as...
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  • There Has to Be a Knife by Khan, Adnan
    Adnan Khan

    There Has to Be a Knife

    In this blistering debut novel, author Adnan Khan investigates themes of race, class, masculinity and contemporary relationships. Omar Ali, twenty-seven-year-old line cook and petty criminal, gets a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father at work, informing Omar that Anna has committed suicide. Unable to...
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  • Night Ambulance by Ruddock, Nicholas
    Nicholas Ruddock

    Night Ambulance

    Following an awkward sexual encounter under a wharf in outport Newfoundland, sixteen-year-old Rowena Savoury travels to St. John's for a secret abortion. But in the early 1970s, the procedure is illegal, and after complications, Rowena finds herself in a hospital being questioned by a...
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  • In the Shadow of the Steel Cross: The Massacre of Father Sebastién Râle, S.J. and the Indian Chiefs by Hunt, Louise Ketchum
    Louise Ketchum Hunt

    In the Shadow of the Steel Cross: The Massacre of Father Sebasti駭 R稷e, S.J. and the Indian Chiefs

    The last of the great Wabanaki tribes, the Norridgewock tribe during the 1600 to early 1700 era, in what is now Maine was wiped out on August 23, 1724, after years of struggle with the Colonial Boston English government under the rule of the...
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  • Odessa, Odessa by Artson, Barbara
    Barbara Artson

    Odessa, Odessa

    A novel of unforgettable characters about two brothers who emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism-one to America and one to Israel-Odessa, Odessa gives readers a great story for our time: a younger generation discovering their lost heritage and reuniting a family.Author: Barbara ArtsonISBN-10:...
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  • The Fourth Shore: The Confines of the Shadow Volume II by Spina, Alessandro
    Alessandro Spina

    The Fourth Shore: The Confines of the Shadow Volume II

    The modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away. The Confines of the Shadow maps the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of...
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  • The Lantern Bearer by Pingwa, Jia
    Jia Pingwa

    The Lantern Bearer

    Cherry Town is a remote community located deep in the Qinling Mountains in the southern Shanxi province. There, a beautiful, college-educated woman is appointed to serve as director of the new office of social management. Daideng, whose adopted name literally meansthe lantern bearer as...
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  • Dune Song by Bouziane, Anissa M.
    Anissa M. Bouziane

    Dune Song

    "I came to the Sahara to be buried." After witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center, Jeehan Nathaar leaves her New York life with her sense of identity fractured and her American dream destroyed. She returns to Morocco to make her home with...
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  • Pushkin Hills by Dovlatov, Sergei
    Sergei Dovlatov

    Pushkin Hills

    An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance...
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  • A Student of History by Revoyr, Nina
    Nina Revoyr

    A Student of History

    Revoyr is gifted in her ability to deal with complex ideas like racism, class conflict, and sexuality without sacrificing the truth of her narrative. Furthermore, like the most adroit novelists, Revoyr specializes in reversal. All of her books are filled with suspense and sudden...
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  • The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Nahai, Gina B.
    Gina B. Nahai

    The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.

    --Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award --Finalist for the Jewish Book Council's 2014 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award --One of The Margins's 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers"Lyrical, shrewd, and daring novelist Nahai . . . writes with acute emotional and nearly anthropological...
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  • Tehran at Twilight by Abdoh, Salar
    Salar Abdoh

    Tehran at Twilight

    Swift, hard-boiled novel...Shadowy zealots exist everywhere, whether in conference rooms or interrogation rooms or--most often--in rooms that can serve as both.--New York Times Book Review Abdoh paints a gripping portrait of a nation awash in violence and crippled by corruption....Captivating.--Publishers Weekly Abdoh...gives readers a...
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  • Fujisan by Taguchi, Randy
    Randy Taguchi

    Fujisan

    From acclaimed Japanese author Randy Taguchi come four unforgettable stories of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance anchored by one of the world's holiest peaks. Mount Fuji has been a source of spiritual inspiration since it was first ascended by a monk over a millennium...
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  • Diddle by Staniforth, Daniel
    Daniel Staniforth

    Diddle

    Diddle is a series of absurd, impossible, but faintly connected stories about immigrants living in the USA that will serve to deconstruct the "American Dream" mythos. Somehow each story typifies the experience of life for outsiders in the US, coupled with the impossibility of...
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  • Cedar Woman by Welch, Debra Shiveley
    Debra Shiveley Welch

    Cedar Woman

    Debra's pen was dipped in the essence of life to write this amazing book. Once again her talent rises to the challenge and we meet not just a person but a people. Through narrative we experience the highs and lows in the account of...
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  • Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 1 by Lagerlof, Selma
    Selma Lagerlof

    Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 1

    Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of...
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  • The Clouds Are Big with Mercy by Urquhart, Fred
    Fred Urquhart

    The Clouds Are Big with Mercy

    By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men are often reluctant to sign up for the Forces: the world seems...
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  • The House of the Mosque by Abdolah, Kader
    Kader Abdolah

    The House of the Mosque

    Welcome to the house of the mosque . . . Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a suitor to knock on the door. Her uncle Nosrat returns from Tehran with a glamorous woman, while on...
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  • The Hill of Shining Souls by Liberatore, Tanino
    Tanino Liberatore

    The Hill of Shining Souls

    Emiliano D'Alessandro, through concrete narration, the obscure tragedy is told as seen by the protagonists, twelve thousand young men of the Italian army, the mamma's boys of General Antonio Gandin who were stationed on the Greek island of Kefalonia.It was the month of September...
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  • Curly Hair, Don't Care by Gregory, Brianna Laurice
    Brianna Laurice Gregory

    Curly Hair, Don't Care

    Curly Hair, Don't Care was written to instill a sense of self-love in children by encouraging them to be proud of their natural hair. This book has a catchy rhythm that will become a new favorite wash day chant no matter what type of...
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  • Margaret's Faith by Durham, Beth
    Beth Durham

    Margaret's Faith

    When Union soldier Philip Berai wanders onto Margaret Elmore's family farm, she sees the answer to her dreams of escaping Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau and finding great adventure. But as they build a fortune in Chicago, Margaret must face her rebellious attitude and begin serving...
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  • The Woman Who Waited by Makine, Andreï
    Andreï Makine

    The Woman Who Waited

    In the remote Russian village of Mirnoje a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, nineteen-year-old Boris Koptek leaves the village to join the Russian army, swearing...
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  • Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Makine, Andreï
    Andreï Makine

    Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer

    They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of...
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  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Kadare, Ismail
    Ismail Kadare

    Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

    In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the...
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  • Riot: A Love Story by Tharoor, Shashi
    Shashi Tharoor

    Riot: A Love Story

    Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women's health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had...
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  • Famous All Over Town by Schein, Bernie
    Bernie Schein

    Famous All Over Town

    Novelist Walker Percy once said that the only remaining unexplored territory in Southern literature was the Jewish southerner. Famous all over Town, the first novel from Southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy's unexplored terrain with a comically candid multi-generational account of...
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  • No-Signal Area by Perisic, Robert
    Robert Perisic

    No-Signal Area

    Oleg and Nikola--hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism--have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of "self-organization" and bringing new life to...
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  • Stranger Here Below by Hinnefeld, Joyce
    Joyce Hinnefeld

    Stranger Here Below

    In 1961, when Amazing Grace Jansen, a firecracker from Appalachia, meets Mary Elizabeth Cox, the daughter of a Black southern preacher, at Kentucky's Berea College, they already carry the scars and traces of their mothers' troubles.Poor and single, Maze's mother has had to raise...
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  • Marriage Material by Sanghera, Sathnam
    Sathnam Sanghera

    Marriage Material

    A London graphic designer is suddenly forced to take over his South Asian family's convenience store in this "hugely enjoyable" novel (The Sunday Express). "Sathnam Sanghera's witty first novel chronicles three generations of a Punjabi Indian family in England. After his father dies, Arjan...
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  • The Eye Stone: The First Medieval Noir about the Birth of Venice by Tiraboschi, Roberto
    Roberto Tiraboschi

    The Eye Stone: The First Medieval Noir about the Birth of Venice

    In the twelfth century AD, Venice is little more than an agglomeration of small islands snatched from the muddy tides. The magnificent city-lagoon of Venice, the rich and powerful Serene Republic, is yet to be born. Here, in this northern backwater, a group of...
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  • The Wandering Falcon by Ahmad, Jamil
    Jamil Ahmad

    The Wandering Falcon

    For readers of Khaled Hosseini, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Mohsin Hamid, a story set among the mountain tribes of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this extraordinary tale, Tor Baz, the young boy descended from both chiefs and outlaws who becomes the Wandering Falcon, moves between the...
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  • Inheritance from Mother by Mizumura, Minae
    Minae Mizumura

    Inheritance from Mother

    Award-winning novelist Minae Mizumura demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her. Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met...
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  • Adé: A Love Story by Walker, Rebecca
    Rebecca Walker

    Adé: A Love Story

    In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the...
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  • The Gold Letter by Manta, Lena
    Lena Manta

    The Gold Letter

    A cherished heirloom reveals the destinies of three generations of women in a powerful saga of lost love by the bestselling Greek author of The House by the River.After years spent in Germany struggling to come to terms with a dispirited and abusive past,...
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  • The Trouble With Eden by Emerson, Jill
    Jill Emerson

    The Trouble With Eden

    In early 1969, I moved with my wife and daughters to an 18th century farmhouse on twelve rolling acres a mile east of the Delaware River. We kept a variety of animals and grew things in the garden, and this was as I'd expected....
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  • Trinity Sight by Givhan, Jennifer
    Jennifer Givhan

    Trinity Sight

    "Our people are survivors," Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots--could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true?Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone...
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  • Two Green Otters by Uzuner, Buket
    Buket Uzuner

    Two Green Otters

    When her mother abandons her family, Nilsu loses faith in the world and everyone in it. Terrified of suffering the same fate, she breaks off relationships before they even begin. Then she meets Teo, a passionate environmentalist and one of the founders of the...
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  • Slow Boat by Furukawa, Hideo
    Hideo Furukawa

    Slow Boat

    A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garc a M rquezTrapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is...
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  • The Book of Fate by Saniee, Parinoush
    Parinoush Saniee

    The Book of Fate

    Selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013 Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and...
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  • Back to the Pilliga by Parsons, Tony
    Tony Parsons

    Back to the Pilliga

    It was always expected that Lachie Sinclair and his brothers would one day take over the family property, Kamilaroi. But when tragedy strikes, Lachie blames his father and angrily renounces any future for him at Kamilaroi. Moving to the city, Lachie joins the police...
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  • Heritage of Smoke by Novakovich, Josip
    Josip Novakovich

    Heritage of Smoke

    Short story writer, novelist and essayist Josip Novakovich returns with his first collection of stories since being named a finalist for the prestigious 2013 Man Booker International Prize. In Ex-Yu, he explores the major themes of war and exile, of religiosity and existentialism, that...
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  • Omenuko by Nwana, Pita
    Pita Nwana

    Omenuko

    Omenụkọ (real name: Igwegbe Odum) whose home in Okigwe, Eastern Nigeria, was a popular spot for field trips by students in schools and colleges, as well as a favourite attraction for tourists in the decades before and after the Nigerian Independence in 1960. Generations...
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  • The Storm by Gonzalez, Tomas
    Tomas Gonzalez

    The Storm

    A riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast. By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins Mario and Jose do not know how to cope...
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  • The Red-Headed Hawaiian: The Inspiring Story about a Local Boy from Rural Hawaii Who Makes Good by McKinney, Chris
    Chris McKinney

    Red-Headed Hawaiian

    In this compelling, reflective, and sometimes humorous memoir, the son of a dark-skinned, tough-as-nails Hawaiian father and a frantic, no-nonsense Hawaiian mother is born with red hair. Rudolph Puana grows up in hardscrabble Kahaluu, Oahu, the only pale, red-headed Hawaiian in an impoverished, brown-skinned,...
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  • Deep Singh Blue by Sidhu, Ranbir Singh
    Ranbir Singh Sidhu

    Deep Singh Blue

    Deep Singh wants out -- out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother, who hasn't said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one...
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