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A Dangerous Crossing: A Novel (Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak Novels)

by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Published: 2018-02-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From Ausma Zehanat Khan, critically acclaimed author of The Unquiet Dead, comes the devastatingly powerful new thriller A Dangerous Crossing.For Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty, the Syrian refugee crisis is about to become personal. Esa’s childhood friend, Nathan Clare, c...

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Pilgrims of the Wild (Voyageur Classics)

by Grey Owl

Published: 2010-07-26

Paperback: 256 pages

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First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims...

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Training School for Negro Girls

by Camille Acker

Published: 2018-10-23

Paperback: 232 pages

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"This flawlessly executed work reinvigorates the short fiction genre." —BUST "Acker perfectly captures the varied experiences of her characters, making clear that each of [their] lives is worth exploring individually, and valued as being one shining part of the ocean of human experience....

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To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

by Jedidiah Jenkins

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 336 pages

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New York Times bestseller | “Thrilling, tender, utterly absorbing . . . Every chapter shimmered with truth.”  —Cheryl StrayedFrom travel writer Jedidiah Jenkins comes a long-awaited memoir of adventure, struggle, and lessons learned while bicycling the 14,000 miles from Oregon to P...

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Things Are Good Now

by Djamila Ibrahim

Published: 2019-03-05

Paperback: 232 pages

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Set in East Africa, the Middle East, Canada, and the U.S., Things Are Good Now examines the weight of the migrant experience on the human psyche. In these pages, women, men, and children who’ve crossed continents in search of a better life find themselves struggling with the chaos of dis...

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Cockroach: A Novel

by Rawi Hage

Published: 2010-10-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Funny and sharp . . . playful and erotic."?New York Times Book Review In Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his curr...

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The Bucket List: A Novel

by Georgia Clark

Published: 2018-08-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“Emotional, hilarious, and thought-provoking.”—People *#1 Cosmo Best New Books of Summer* *Best Reads of Summer—PureWow* “Witty, sexy.” —Los Angeles Times “A crowd-pleaser.”—Publishers Weekly “A compelling, thoughtful take on a very real women's health issue; confiden...

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RED Hotel

by Ed Fuller, Gary Grossman

Published: 2019-03-19

Hardcover: 532 pages

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When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips. Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to th...

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The Traitor: A Tommy Carmellini Novel

by Stephen Coonts

Published: 2007-03-06

Kindle Edition: 372 pages

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When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espionage, deception, and murder…and develop ...

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Beneath The Scar: A Story of Resilience

by Deuntay Tyrone Diggs

Published: 2018-07-04

Paperback: 170 pages

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Beneath the scar is a gritty, honest, first person tale about the life of Deuntay Diggs. In this book, you will join Deuntay on his journey from a small Eastern Shore kid all the way to VMI graduate and United States Army Soldier. The story in between though is what sets the stage in this tale of resilience....