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In Arcadia

by Ben Okri

Published: 2015-03-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as...

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The Silent Minaret

by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. The friends of a young student who has gone missing try to reconstruct his life as they search for...

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Dikeledi

by Sabata-mpho Mokae

Published: 2014-07-23

Kindle Edition: 104 pages

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Dikeledi is a youth novel written in Setswana. Set in Galeshewe, a township in Kimberley (South Africa), it is the award-winning author Sabata-mpho Mokae's second novel in his mother tongue. Dikeledi tells a story of a young girl who looses her mother to HIV. She becomes the head of the household, taking...

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Timebends: A Life

by Arthur Miller

Published: 2013-07-09

Paperback: 656 pages

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The definitive memoir of Arthur Miller?the famous playwright of The Crucible, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, and other plays?Timebends reveals Miller’s incredible trajectory as a man and a writer.Born in 1915, Miller grew up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, de...

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The Human Body: A Novel

by Paolo Giordano

Published: 2015-11-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the ...

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The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel

by Richard Rayner

Published: 2002-03-19

Paperback: 432 pages

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In a tiny village in Finland, Esko Vaananen is at the brink of despair -- he loves a woman he can never have. Suddenly, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above ...

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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

by Tim Kreider

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 224 pages

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*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosop...

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Pastoral

by André Alexis

Published: 2014-05-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to fe...

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Godsend: A Novel

by John Wray

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” Whiting Award–winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant.Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is inten...

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The Losers Club

by Andrew Clements

Published: 2018-07-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!   Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down.   So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or else—Alec take...