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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

by Kiersten White

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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There's no better gift for the holidays than this monster of a New York Times bestseller! "Exquisitely disturbing," raves internationally bestselling author Stephanie Garber of this stunning and dark reimagining of Frankenstein.Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin...

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The Kites

by Romain Gary

Published: 2017-10-31

Hardcover: 384 pages

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New York Times Notable Book 2018Romain Gary’s bittersweet final masterpiece, a novel of courage and resistance?never before in EnglishNow in English for the first time, Romain Gary's final masterpiece begins with Ludo coming of age on a small farm in Normandy, under the care of his eccen...

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Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

by Paul Collier, Alexander Betts

Published: 2017-09-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a co...

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Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

by Didier Eribon

Published: 2013-09-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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A memoir and a meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided with...

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The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom

by don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

Published: 2017-09-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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The ancient Toltecs believed that life as we perceive it is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and all of our dreams come together to make the Dream of the Planet. Problems arise when we forget that the dream is just a dream, and thus fall victim to believing that we have no ...

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The Toltec Art of Life and Death: Living Your Life as a Work of Art

by Don Miguel Ruiz, Barbara Emrys

Published: 2017-04-11

Paperback: 416 pages

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A HarperElixir BookThe beloved teacher of spiritual wisdom and author of the phenomenal New York Times and international bestseller The Four Agreements takes readers on a mystical Toltec-inspired personal journey, introducing us to a deeper level of spiritual teaching and awareness.In 2002...

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Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy, The Teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz

by Miguel Ruiz

Published: 1997-08-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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The wisdom in this life-changing book has the power to replace fear with joy. Fear, the source of all the negative agreements we've made in life, can alienate us from the joy that is our birthright. When we are able to look at our lives and our worlds without fear or judgment, we realize that this dream...

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The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

Published: 2019-02-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable?and Hollywood-bound?new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." ?Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violen...

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The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

by Aida Edemariam

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A Finalist for The Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction in CanadaIn this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia—a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transfo...

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Daughters (Plume Contemporary Fiction)

by Paule Marshall

Published: 1992-10-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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One of America's eminent black novelists tells the story of a young black woman living in New York and her struggle to understand herself and her parents back home in the West Indies. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Tour.