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Tigerman

by Nick Harkaway

Published: 2015-06-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOOK From the award-winning author of Angelmaker, Tigerman is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind...

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Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo

by Redi Tlhabi

Published: 2017-09-18

Kindle Edition: 260 pages

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In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced...

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Zoo Time: A Novel

by Howard Jacobson

Published: 2012-10-16

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blisterin...

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The Fifth Mrs Brink: A Memoir

by Karina Szczurek

Published: 2017-07-25

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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The Fifth Mrs Brink is Karina M. Szczurek's memoir of her life before, during and after her marriage to André P. Brink. Polish-born Karina was twenty-seven when she met the acclaimed writer, forty-two years her senior, and they spent a decade together. Here she chronicles their relationsh...

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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound

by Donna Hylton

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early...

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Married by Force

by Leila

Published: 2007-05-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage "I was twenty years old and dreamed of marrying for love." Leila was born and brought up in France by Moroccan-born parents. Her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her fathe...

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The Spiral House

by Claire Robertson

Published: 2013-02-01

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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Katrijn van der Caab, freed slave and wigmaker’s apprentice, travels with her eccentric employer from Cape Town to Vogelzang, a remote farm where a hairless girl needs their services. The year is 1794, it is the age of enlightenment, and on Vogelzang the master is conducting strange expe...

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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

by Casey Gerald

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 400 pages

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR AND THE NEW YORK TIMESA PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himse...

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After the Rain

by Jane Lorenzini

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 252 pages

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It's 1888. Can Belle Carson reinvent her life by moving next door to Thomas Edison's winter estate?From New York Times bestselling author Jane Lorenzini comes a story of heartbreak and healing set against the backdrop of exotic southwest Florida.It's January 1888. The small town of Fort My...

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The Walnut Tree: A Holiday Tale (Bess Crawford Mysteries)

by Charles Todd

Published: 2012-10-30

Kindle Edition: 307 pages

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“You’re going to love Todd.”—Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklyThe critically acclaimed creator of the Inspector Ian Rutledge and battlefield nurse Bess Crawford mystery series, Charles Todd now offers readers a bittersweet love story and romantic mystery that unfolds at Christmas ...