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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 ...

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Perlmann's Silence

by Pascal Mercier

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 640 pages

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"What might have been, in less talented hands, an amusing literary thriller is, in Mercier's prose . . . something far more complex." ?Alberto Manguel, The Guardian (UK)Night Train to Lisbon, a tremendous international best seller, established Pascal Mercier as one of the most striking Eur...

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Period Pain

by Kopano Matlwa

Published: 2017-07-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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Period Pain captures the heartache and confusion of so many South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors; xenophobia, corrective rape, corruption and crime and for many the death sentence that is the public health nightmare. Where are we going, what have we become? Pe...

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Come Sunday: A Novel

by Isla Morley

Published: 2009-05-26

Kindle Edition: 330 pages

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A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa.Come Sunday is that joyous, special thing: a saga that captivates from the very first page, breaking our hearts while making our spirits soar. Abbe Deighton is a woman wh...

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel

by Vikram Chandra

Published: 1995

Paperback: 542 pages

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Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.

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A Black Englishman: A Novel

by Carolyn Slaughter

Published: 2005-11-15

Kindle Edition: 353 pages

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India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right ...

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The Opposite House

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2008-06-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emis...

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The Age of Magic

by Ben Okri

Published: 2001

Paperback: 0 pages

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Arab Jazz

by Karim Misk?

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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Kosher sushi, kebab stands, a secondhand bookstore, and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris has all the trappings of a cosmopolitan melting pot--a place where multiethnic citizens live, love, and worship alongside one another. But dark passions are brewing beneath the seemingly idyllic...