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Song of a Captive Bird: A Novel

by Jasmin Darznik

Published: 2018-02-13

Hardcover: 416 pages

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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society’s expectations to find her voice and her destiny “A complex and beautiful rendering of [a] vanished country and its scattered people, a reminder of th...

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The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep

by Steven Heighton

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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From internationally acclaimed and Governor General’s Award-winning author Steven Heighton comes a passionate novel of buried secrets, the repercussions of war and finding love among the ruinsElias Trifannis is desperate to belong somewhere. To make his dying ex-cop father happy, he join...

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Celine: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Peter Heller

Published: 2018-01-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLEREsquire Best Books of 2017Minnesota Public Radio Best of 2017The Morning News 2018 Tournament of Books PickNew York Times bestselling author of The Dog Stars“[A] gorgeously wrought story.” —Entertainment Weekly“Heller is a gifted writer…Celine is such a joy to ...

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* * * Confusing,
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Bridge of Clay (Signed Edition)

by Markus Zusak

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 544 pages

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? An Amazon Best Children's Book of the Year selection An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking stor...

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The Sandpiper

by susan brace lovell

Published: 2015-05-20

Paperback: 272 pages

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A novel written for women's book clubs as it deals with the hard challenges of infertility and alcoholism in a family of loving, good women who care deeply about each other.

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Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat

Published: 2014-03-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused an immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists, and animal rights activists. Never before had the relationship between patriarchy and meat ...

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Dear Martha, WTF?: What I Found in My Search for Why

by Tricia LaVoice

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Giving Tree meets Eat, Pray, Love in a brazenly honest, refreshingly irreverent, and even hilarious look at going “through” versus going “down.”Tricia LaVoice’s life turned upside-down when her parents were tragically killed in an automobile accident. Her close relationships ...

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American Panda

by Gloria Chao

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth gra...

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The Songlines (Penguin Classics)

by Bruce Chatwin

Published: 2012-06-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory StewartPart adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. Set in the desolate lands of the Australian O...

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Shadows of a Princess

by Patrick Jephson

Published: 2017-07-27

Paperback: 608 pages

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Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana’s death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period.In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by many as a lifeline for the outdated Windsor line. But Dia...