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The Human Body: A Novel

by Paolo Giordano

Published: 2015-11-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the ...

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The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel

by Richard Rayner

Published: 2002-03-19

Paperback: 432 pages

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In a tiny village in Finland, Esko Vaananen is at the brink of despair -- he loves a woman he can never have. Suddenly, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above ...

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I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

by Tim Kreider

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 224 pages

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*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s a philosop...

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Pastoral

by André Alexis

Published: 2014-05-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to fe...

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Godsend: A Novel

by John Wray

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” Whiting Award–winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant.Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is inten...

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The Losers Club

by Andrew Clements

Published: 2018-07-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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The beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Frindle celebrates books and the joy of reading with a new school story to love!   Sixth grader Alec can’t put a good book down.   So when Principal Vance lays down the law—pay attention in class, or else—Alec take...

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The Exploded View

by Ivan Vladislavic

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 196 pages

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The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavi?, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist ...

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Becoming Him – A Trans Memoir of Triumph

by Landa Mabenge

Published: 2018-07-01

Kindle Edition: 207 pages

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In April 1981, Landa Mabenge enters this world, trapped in a girl’s body. From an early age, Landa is aware that he does not relate to his female form, despite being socialised as a girl. In this groundbreaking and brutally honest memoir, Landa Mabenge establishes himself as a resounding...

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Tigerman

by Nick Harkaway

Published: 2015-06-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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A KIRKUS REVIEWS and NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST AND ALA NOTABLE BOOK From the award-winning author of Angelmaker, Tigerman is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind...

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Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo

by Redi Tlhabi

Published: 2017-09-18

Kindle Edition: 260 pages

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In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced...