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The Wasted Vigil (Vintage International)

by Nadeem Aslam

Published: 2009-09-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; Dav...

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* * * * * Life Changing,
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Maps: A Novel (Blood in the Sun)

by Nuruddin Farah

Published: 2016-02-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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?Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”?Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the ...

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Butterfly Moments: Encouraging Encounters At An Inner-City High School

by Caroline Green

Published: 2018-10-15

Paperback: 252 pages

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Be prepared to be deeply moved by the stories of the adolescents you will meet in Butterfly Moments. This unique collection of real life encounters, compassionately shared by Caroline Green, is set an inner-city high school on the edge of Hillbrow. Here, where poverty dictates, gangsters c...

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The Hum of the Sun

by Kirsten Miller

Published: 2018-04-06

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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After burying their sister and mother, two brothers embark on a journey to the city in search of their only remaining family. On the brink of manhood, Ash must protect eight-year-old Zuko, who does not speak, his words stuck somewhere between his thoughts and his mouth. But Zuko, enchanted by nature...

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Far to Go: A Novel

by Alison Pick

Published: 2011-04-19

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Deftlystructured and . . . seamless." —Globe and Mail (Toronto) "[A]nuanced and layered portrait of betrayal. . . . The strength of Far to Golies in Pick's ability to show precisely why one person could turn on another,how a single word spoken on impulse could have devastating results....

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* * Difficult,
Slow,
Informative

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All the Rivers: A Novel

by Dorit Rabinyan

Published: 2017-04-25

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to h...

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Far From My Father’s House

by Jill McGivering

Published: 2011-08-04

Kindle Edition: 401 pages

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Survival is hard in a land where no woman can live aloneLayla is just thirteen when the men with the beards and guns burn down her beloved father’s school and begin to terrorise the Swat valley region of Pakistan.She has to flee, exchanging the tranquil beauty of the Himalayas for the sq...

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Luuanda: Short Stories of Angola (An H.E.B. Paperback) (English and Portuguese Edition)

by Jose Luandino Vieira

Published: 1980-06-01

Paperback: 118 pages

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These three stories are set in the slums of Angola's capital, Luanda, during the 1940s and 1950s. Originally published in Portuguese, this book won the Writers' Society's Grand Prize for Fiction in 1965.

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

Published: 2010-10-05

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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“The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling….A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind.”   — David Wroblewski< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> “A new Tom Franklin novel is always a reason to get excite...

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The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom

by Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in ...