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Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel

by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Published: 2019-02-19

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit WestA missionary doctor p...

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Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

by Stephen Dando-Collins

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 358 pages

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On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu b...

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A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu (Detective Kubu Series Book 1)

by Michael Stanley

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 512 pages

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Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.But Kalahari game rangers stumble on the human corpse mid-meal. The murder wasn't perfect after all. Enter Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investiga...

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Trouble in Nuala (The Inspector de Silva Mysteries)

by Harriet Dorothy Steel

Published: 2016-11-25

Paperback: 198 pages

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When Inspector Shanti de Silva moves with his English wife, Jane, to his new post in the sleepy hill town of Nuala, he anticipates a more restful life than police work in the big city entails. However an arrogant plantation owner with a lonely wife, a crusading lawyer, and a death in suspi...

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Safe as Houses

by Simone van der Vlugt

Published: 2013-07-04

Kindle Edition: 273 pages

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A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is not quick enough.Suddenly Lisa and her young daughter find themselves held hostage in their own home. In the following hours and day...

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Miracle Creek: A Novel

by Angie Kim

Published: 2019-04-16

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The “gripping… page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste NgHow far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a...

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To Begin Again

by M.F.K. Fisher

Published: 1992-11-03

Hardcover: 179 pages

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The first volume of reminiscences by one of America's best-loved writers. "Vintage Fisher. . . . (Her diaries and stories) bathe her youth and beauty in a golden light like the stuff of Gustave Dore engravings, the light of a better place and a better time when people were still made out o...

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Casanova's Return to Venice (Pushkin Collection)

by Arthur Schnitzler

Published: 2013-03-05

Kindle Edition: 192 pages

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"His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to move in ever-narrowing circles."One of Schnitzler’s most poignant evocations of the passing of time and the ironies of sentiment and love,...

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Nine Days

by Toni Jordan

Published: 2012-08-22

Kindle Edition: 255 pages

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One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. Winner, Independent Booksellers of Australia Award for Best Fiction, 2013. Kirkus Reviews, Best Historical Fiction list, 2013. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite...

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Too Much Lip

by Melissa Lucashenko

Published: 2018-07-25

Kindle Edition: 303 pages

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A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby.Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to swallow her opinions. The avalanche of bullshit in the world would drown her if she let it; the least she could do was raise...