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The Outrun

by Amy Liptrot

Published: 2016-08-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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A Whole Life: A Novel

by Robert Seethaler

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 160 pages

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International BestsellerWinner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s PrizeShortlisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for American Literary Translators Association's Translation Prize in ProseAndreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the sou...

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The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

by Sylvain Tesson

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 244 pages

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A meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude. Winner of the Prix Médicis for nonfiction, The Consolations of the Forest is a Thoreau-esque quest to find solace, taken to the extreme. No stranger to inhospitable places, Sylvain Tesson exiles himself to a...

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Everything and Nothing

by Araminta Hall

Published: 2011-09-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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A family near breaking point hire a nanny with secrets of her own in this gripping novel from an exciting new talent.On the surface, Ruth and Christian seem like an ordinary working couple with two kids – and a home in chaos. As the cracks in their marriage widen, they decide to get thei...

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City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

by Ramita Navai

Published: 2014-09-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Rich, absorbing, and exotic—City of Lies travels up and down Vali Asr Street, Tehran's pulsing thoroughfare, from the lavish shopping malls of Tajrish through the smog that lingers over the alleyways and bazaars of the city's southern districts.Ramita Navai gives voice to ordinary Irania...

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As Good as True

by Cheryl Reid

Published: 2018-02-01

Hardcover: 370 pages

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A powerful and haunting novel of a woman’s broken past and the painful choices she must make to keep her family and her home.August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daught...

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The Birdwoman's Palate

by Laksmi Pamuntjak

Published: 2018-02-01

Hardcover: 364 pages

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In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman’s road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies.Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Ar...

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I Have Lost My Way

by Gayle Forman

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay   “Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” – Hypable   A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day:   Freya who has lost her voice whil...

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Ifa: It's Core Values Vol. 1 What is Ifa?

by Inc Solagbade Popoola Library

Published: 2014-06-13

Paperback: 212 pages

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What is Ifa? On which aspects of life does Ifa provide guidance? How does Ifa guide and support one during this sojourn on earth? Solagbade Popoola; Fakunle Oyesanya; and Gbolahan Okemuyiwa, have dedicated most of their lives to the art of interpretation and analysis of Odu Ifa. These three adept Yoruba...

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Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published: 2016-10-18

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember ...