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My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel

by Pajtim Statovci

Published: 2017-04-18

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A New York Times Book Review Staff Pick"A marvel, a remarkable achievement, and a world apart from anything you are likely to read this year." —Téa Obreht, The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant...

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Mirror Shoulder Signal

by Dorthe Nors

Published: 2017-02-23

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A smart, witty novel of driving lessons and vertigo, short-listed for the Man Booker International PrizeSonja is ready to get on with her life. She’s over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her...

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Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O'Dell Mystery series)

by Sylvia Nobel

Published: 1998-04-28

Paperback: 360 pages

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The first title in Sylvia Nobel's popular mystery series that features spirited, flame-haired reporter Kendall O'Dell. The author's trademark style is to produce exciting, well-written, edge-of-your-seat, adventures with "knock your socks off" surprise endings. Her judicious use of languag...

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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury

Published: 2005-02-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." ?Seattle TimesWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port w...

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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

by Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope

Published: 2017-04-18

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and mor...

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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII

by John R Bruning

Published: 2017-05-02

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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to h...

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Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence

by Paul Feig

Published: 2002-09-24

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Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment by dodge balls, ill-fated prom dates, hellish school bus rides, and other aspects of public school life that will keep you laughing in recognition and occasionally si...

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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women in American History)

by Brittney C. Cooper

Published: 2017-05-03

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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Co...

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The Story of America: Essays on Origins

by Jill Lepore

Published: 2013-10-27

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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of p...

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The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2016-03-29

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By the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel of passion and power at the court of a medieval killer, a riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII’s sixth wife Kateryn Parr.Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man o...