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Sarajevo: A War Journal

by Zlatko Dizdarevic

Published: 1993-10

Hardcover: 193 pages

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Originally written as columns for a Croatian newspaper, Sarajevo vividly describes a life in which unspeakable horrors are daily occurrences. While witnessing the gradual destruction of his city, Dizdarevic emphasizes the heroism of Sarajevo's citizens as they try to survive. Recipient of the International...

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Hanging Up

by Delia Ephron

Published: 1995-07-18

Hardcover: 307 pages

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While wrestling with her own anxieties over aging and loneliness, Eve Mozell struggles with her alcoholic father over the telephone, pursues her workaholic sister, and meets a man who rivals her husband. A first novel.

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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Revised Edition

by Zlata Filipovic

Published: 2006-02-28

Paperback: 240 pages

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The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the worldWhen Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it...

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Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

by Noel Riley Fitch

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 612 pages

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Julia Child entered the lives of millions of Americans with her bestselling cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking; her popular and long-running cooking show, The French Chef; and her beloved memoir, My Life in France. In this intimate and revealing biography, based on exclusive int...

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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas: An Andy Carpenter Mystery (An Andy Carpenter Novel)

by David Rosenfelt

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he’s happy?eager, even?to take the case that’s just come his way. Andy’s long-time friend Martha “Pups” Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can’t hand...

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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Graham Greene

Published: 2004-08-31

Paperback: 180 pages

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Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel o...

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Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 1990-01-30

Hardcover: 258 pages

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The Secret Garden (Illustrated by Charles Robinson)

by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Published: 2016-01-04

Paperback: 174 pages

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One of the most beloved children’s stories of all time “The Secret Garden” is arguably Francis Hodgson Burnett’s most famous novel. First serialized in the fall of 1910 and in book form in 1911, “The Secret Garden” is the story of Mary Lennox, a sick young girl living in India with her parents....

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

by Lucette Lagnado

Published: 2008-07-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorshi...

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The Inhabited World

by David Long

Published: 2007-07-02

Paperback: 288 pages

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Part psychological drama, part mystery, part modern ghost story, The Inhabited World is a deeply affecting novel of love, loss, and longing. Evan Molloy has been dead for nearly ten years when the mysterious, fragile Maureen moves into the bungalow near Puget Sound where he once lived. Cau...