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Leo Africanus

by Amin Maalouf

Published: 1998-03-25

Paperback: 360 pages

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"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, bu...

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

by Valeria Luiselli

Published: 2017-04-04

Paperback: 128 pages

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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.

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The Peripheral

by William Gibson

Published: 2015-10-06

Paperback: 512 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future...Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s ...

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Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde

by John Boessenecker

Published: 2017-07-03

Paperback: 528 pages

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The New York Times Best Seller!“Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adve...

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Beyond the Ice Limit: A Gideon Crew Novel (Gideon Crew series)

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Published: 2016-12-20

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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BEYOND THE ICE LIMITThat thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.Five years ago, the mysterious and i...

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The White Mirror: A Mystery (Li Du Novels)

by Elsa Hart

Published: 2017-07-18

Paperback: 320 pages

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In The White Mirror, the follow-up to Elsa Hart’s critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a va...

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The Honest Truth

by Dan Gemeinhart

Published: 2015-12-29

Paperback: 240 pages

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It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime.In all the ways that matter, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day.But in one important way, Mark...

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The Coming Storm: A Novel (Stonewall Inn Editions (Paperback))

by Paul Russell

Published: 2000-09-09

Kindle Edition: 371 pages

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Set against the backdrop of a traditional boys' school in upstate New York, The Coming Storm is a delicately and brilliantly rendered tale that reveals the most closely held secrets of the human heart. Russell's award-winning novel is the story of four interlocking lives - Louis Tremper, t...

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Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles)

by Lauren DeStefano

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 384 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy: On the floating city of Internment, you can be anything you dream. Unless you approach the edge. Children’s Literature says “shades of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 inspire DeStefa...

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The Machine Stops

by E.M. Forster

Published: 2013-05-23

Paperback: 48 pages

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E. M. Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may...