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The Lovely Earth

by Taro Aizu

Published: 2011-08-03

Paperback: 100 pages

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This is 5-line poetry called "gogyohshi" in Japan. Gogyohshi is a bit different from tanka as it adds a title to 5-line.

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Harbor of Spies: A Novel of Historic Havana

by Robin Lloyd

Published: 2018-03-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and war related espionage. The protagonist - a young American ship captain named Everett Townsend - is pulled into the war, not as a Naval offi...

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

by Yukio Mishima

Published: 1994-05-31

Paperback: 192 pages

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Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.   Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject the tenets of the adult world — to them, adult l...

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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

by J. M. Coetzee

Published: 2010-06-29

Paperback: 192 pages

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A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate—a loyal servant of th...

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Indian Horse: A Novel

by Richard Wagamese

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brothe...

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Respectable Sins

by Jerry Bridges

Published: 2017-08-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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Now available in softcover with a new, contemporary watercolor design that blends with Jerry Bridge’s most popular books. This new edition now includes the study guide (formerly available separately), combining that resource into this book.What Ever Happened to Sin? Jerry Bridges helps u...

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Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

Published: 2001-08-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith." ?TimeThe world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her deb...

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The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

by Brenda Woods

Published: 2015-01-22

Paperback: 240 pages

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Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods’ moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family explores racism and how it feels to be biracial, and celebrates families of all kinds.Violet is biracial, but she lives with her white mother and sister...

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Sink or Swim: A Novel of WWII

by Steve Watkins

Published: 2017-10-31

Hardcover: 272 pages

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It's been a month since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. America is officially at war with Germany and Japan, and everyone wants to do their part. In twelve-year-old Colton's case, that means stepping up at home once his older brother, Danny, ships out with the navy. But before Danny leaves fo...

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The Liberty Club

by Marianne Aleck

Published: 2015-12-15

Paperback: 530 pages

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The Liberty Club is a non-fiction, layered family memoir that follows the lives of a Greek and French family through their true life adventures that the author coined, "A slice of Americana with a European twist." Beginning at the turn of the 20th century the story embarks as the Greeks im...