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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)

by Amin Maalouf

Published: 1989-04-29

Paperback: 293 pages

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The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Vintage International)

by Irvine Welsh

Published: 2016-01-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness,...

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Wyoming

by JP Gritton

Published: 2019-11-19

Paperback: 246 pages

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A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 Pick!A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself. It’s 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He’s broke, he’s been fired from his con...

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Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

by Caroline Elton

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves From ER and M*A*S*H to Grey's Anatomy and House, the medical drama endures for good reason: we're fascinated by the people we must trust when we are most vulnerable. In Also Human, vocational psycho...

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The Book of Collateral Damage (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Sinan Antoon

Published: 2019-05-28

Hardcover: 312 pages

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document th...

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Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now

by Andre Perry

Published: 2019-11-12

Paperback: 172 pages

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"Beautiful, brilliant, bold... Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook." ?Christopher John Stephens, PopMattersWith luminous insight and fervent prose, Andre Perry’s debut collection of personal essays, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, travels from Washington, DC, to Iowa City ...

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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Volume 36) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

by Jason De Leon

Published: 2015-10-23

Paperback: 384 pages

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In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy.  The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur d...

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Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction

by Chuck Klosterman

Published: 2019-07-16

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong?A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team insta...

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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor (2))

by Jessica Townsend

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 544 pages

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The captivating and heart-pounding sequel to the New York Times bestselling and #1 Kids' Indie Next Pick Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, as heroine Morrigan battles a new evil.Morrigan Crow and her best friend Hawthorne Swift are now proud scholars in the elite Wundrous Society, bu...

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Published: 2019-10-15

Hardcover: 192 pages

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A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black ...