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Justine (Alexandria Quartet)

by Lawrence Durrell

Published: 1991-07-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.

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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings

by Marquis De Sade

Published: 1990-01-11

Paperback: 753 pages

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This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eug�nie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition ...

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The Juvie Three

by Gordon Korman

Published: 2010-01-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car.Terence Florian ran with the�worst gang in Chicago.Arjay Moran killed someone.All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy.� A former juvenile delinquent himself, Healy is...

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Kaaterskill Falls

by Allegra Goodman

Published: 1999-08-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters, is restless....

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Kabbalah: A Love Story

by Lawrence Rabbi Kushner

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 208 pages

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Sometime, somewhere, someone is searching for answers . . .. . . in a thirteenth-century castle. . . on a train to a concentration camp. . . in a New York city apartmentHidden within the binding of an ancient text that has been passed down through the ages lies the answer to one of the hea...

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Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)

by Gontran De Poncins, Lewis Galantiere

Published: 1996-09-01

Paperback: 362 pages

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This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938-39, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping...

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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil

by Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson

Published: 2007-04-10

Hardcover: 275 pages

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Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rod...

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The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Friendship and Freedom

by Deborah Rodriguez

Published: 2008-01-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

by Mark Mathabane

Published: 1998-10-07

Paperback: 0 pages

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The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hop...

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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheir South Africa

by Mark Mathabane

Published: 1999-10

School & Library Binding: 354 pages

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