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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Published: 2006-06-01

Paperback: 184 pages

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Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife ...

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Mao's Last Dancer

by Li Cunxin

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cu...

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Mao's Last Dancer (Movie Tie-In)

by Li Cunxin

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 528 pages

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From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, onl...

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Paperback: 448 pages

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A Map of Glass

by Jane Urquhart

Published: 2007-03-15

Paperback: 371 pages

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A Map of Home: A Novel

by Randa Jarrar

Published: 2009-08-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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From America to the Middle East and back again- the sparkling story of one girl's childhood, by an exciting new voice in literary fiction In this fresh, funny, and fearless debut novel, Randa Jarrar chronicles the coming-of-age of Nidali, one of the most unique and irrepressible narrators ...

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The Map of Love : A Novel

by Ahdaf Soueif

Published: 2011-01-26

Kindle Edition: 546 pages

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Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shado...

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Map of the Invisible World

by Tash Aw

Published: 2009-05-19

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Set during the tumultuous ?Year of Living Dangerously? in post-colonial Indonesia, a stunning follow-up to the international debut literary sensation The Harmony Silk Factory.Tash Aw burst onto the international literary scene in 2005 with his highly acclaimed, award-winning debut novel. N...

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A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)

by Jane Hamilton

Published: 1999-12-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Alt...

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A Map of the World

by Jane Hamilton

Published: 1995-03

Hardcover: 574 pages

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Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.Oprah Book Club® Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World...