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All the Rivers: A Novel

by Dorit Rabinyan

Published: 2017-04-25

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A controversial, award-winning story about the passionate but untenable affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, from one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists When Liat meets Hilmi on a blustery autumn afternoon in Greenwich Village, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to h...

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Far From My Father’s House

by Jill McGivering

Published: 2011-08-04

Kindle Edition: 401 pages

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Survival is hard in a land where no woman can live aloneLayla is just thirteen when the men with the beards and guns burn down her beloved father’s school and begin to terrorise the Swat valley region of Pakistan.She has to flee, exchanging the tranquil beauty of the Himalayas for the sq...

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Luuanda: Short Stories of Angola (An H.E.B. Paperback) (English and Portuguese Edition)

by Jose Luandino Vieira

Published: 1980-06-01

Paperback: 118 pages

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These three stories are set in the slums of Angola's capital, Luanda, during the 1940s and 1950s. Originally published in Portuguese, this book won the Writers' Society's Grand Prize for Fiction in 1965.

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

Published: 2010-10-05

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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“The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling….A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind.”   — David Wroblewski< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> “A new Tom Franklin novel is always a reason to get excite...

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The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom

by Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in ...

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Perlmann's Silence

by Pascal Mercier

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 640 pages

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"What might have been, in less talented hands, an amusing literary thriller is, in Mercier's prose . . . something far more complex." ?Alberto Manguel, The Guardian (UK)Night Train to Lisbon, a tremendous international best seller, established Pascal Mercier as one of the most striking Eur...

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Period Pain

by Kopano Matlwa

Published: 2017-07-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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Period Pain captures the heartache and confusion of so many South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors; xenophobia, corrective rape, corruption and crime and for many the death sentence that is the public health nightmare. Where are we going, what have we become? Pe...

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Come Sunday: A Novel

by Isla Morley

Published: 2009-05-26

Kindle Edition: 330 pages

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A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa.Come Sunday is that joyous, special thing: a saga that captivates from the very first page, breaking our hearts while making our spirits soar. Abbe Deighton is a woman wh...

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel

by Vikram Chandra

Published: 1995

Paperback: 542 pages

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Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.

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A Black Englishman: A Novel

by Carolyn Slaughter

Published: 2005-11-15

Kindle Edition: 353 pages

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India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right ...