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Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care of the house, and has dinner ready when her husband gets...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 8
The Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito Novels volume Book 8
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
The Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito Novels volume Book 8
Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 26
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When two suspicious deaths occur in the Bears Ears area, Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito must use all their experience, skill, and intuition to find justice.
An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking...
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A breathtaking novel of primitive England and the astonishing birth of the miracle called Stonehenge In a time before recorded history, on an island that many centuries later would come to be known as Britain, Moloquin, the Unwanted One, dreams of a pathway to the heavens. Cast out as a child, he survives by his wits alone on the fringes of tribal society and grows into manhood driven by one powerful and unshakable ambition: to build a link between...
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The Daughters of Madurai is both a page-turning mystery and a heartrending story of the fraught family dynamics and desperate choices that face a young mother in India. Spanning 1990s South India and present-day Australia, the novel follows Janani, a mother who will do anything to save her unborn daughter, and Nila, a young woman who embarks on a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.
From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people,
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A tale of two dynasties whose fortunes are linked to the fate of an emerging nation. Elvira Vernet narrates Eccentric Neighborhoods as she attempts to solve the mystery of who her parents truly are. Her mother, the beautiful and aristocratic Clarissa Rivas de Santillana, was born into a rarefied world of privilege, one of five daughters on the family's sugar plantation. Elvira's father, Aurelio Vernet, and his three brothers and two sisters were raised...
7) Bluebird
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If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.' The GuardianA stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb.
A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart.
Gordon Grimes has become the accidental keeper...
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A renowned Russian ballerina is stranded in Puerto Rico as a revolution tears her homeland apart - and she finds herself in the middle of another uprising. In a truly multicultural story and a daring example of global fiction, Rosario Ferré uses her prodigious talents to deliver an unforgettable tale of love, politics, and the power of female expression. Based loosely on a real episode in the life of famous prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Flight of...
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Set in the late 1970's England this story follows a disillusioned, educated and introspective young man of mixed heritage as he strives to find acceptance and meaning in his life. He submerges himself into the affairs of a marginalized people who are engaged in a daily struggle to cope with the crime-ridden sub-society in which they are trapped; victims and prey alike. He is befriended and tolerated by most, especially by Errol and Golem, even though...
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Neighbors welcome a family of Syrian refugees to the small town of Grand Forks. Elderly Uncle Ahmad, still recovering from the trauma of civil war, rewards the kindness of his new friends with his prodigious wood sculpting talent. When a Black church displays his soul-stirring art in a fundraising event to support refugees, Ahmad's skill becomes widely admired in the community. It also incites suspicion and islamophobia among local white nationalists....
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Kluge's brilliant novel tells of George Canaris, a writing professor who is on the verge of forced retirement at a small college in Ohio when he is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Kluge's creation of Canaris as the first faculty member in half a century whose death merits an obituary in the New York Times is right on the money. A writer, a critic, a professor, a campus legend and a national figure, the very embodiment of the liberal arts, the fictional...
13) Some Day
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Desire and tragedy upset the lives of an Israeli family in this debut novel from the award-winning filmmaker.
On the shores of Israel's Sea of Galilee lies the city of Tiberias. In the years between the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars, it is a place bursting with desire and longing for love. As young Shlomi develops a remarkable culinary talent, he also falls for Ella, the strange neighbor and deeply troubled new neighbor. Meanwhile, Shlomi's little...
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It was the perfect marriage… until they fell in love.
Chaya is a young woman torn between her duty to family and her life in the UK. While her traditional Sri Lankan parents want her to settle down into marriage, what they don't know is that Chaya has turned away the one true love of her life, Noah, terrified of their disapproval.
Gimhana is hiding his sexuality from his family. It's easy enough to pretend he's straight when he lives half a world...
15) Bone: A Novel
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"We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads. We heard things."
In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the world of one family's honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a "paper father." Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy...
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K'amnikte' es la búsqueda constante de una identidad a partir del viaje por la memoria, por nuestra historia, por nuestra alegría. La manera de aproximarnos a nuestra raíz que, más allá de un simple concepto, es la fuerza máxima proveniente de los colores, de las flores, de los vientos, del canto, de la música, de la comida y del abrazo de la madre luna.
Las historias que aquí se cuentan, cargadas de pasión y de energía ancestral nos invitan...
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Reaching for Independence is both about war and about love. The story is set in the nineteenth century during Greece's chaotic War for Independence from the Ottoman Turks. The fascinating historical figures include Captain Bouboulina, the woman who launched the war to free Greece, two Greek war commanders, Mavrocordatos and Kolokotronis, who opposed each other-nearly causing a civil war-and the famous poet, Lord Byron, who led troops to victory. Real...
18) Seduce
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Word has spread that Seduce is dead, and mourners gather for her wake. But with Seduce in her coffin, her memories and consciousness of those around her persist. There are those like Hyacinth who have come to make sure that that " dutty filthy woman" has finally ceased to be the temptation of the husbands of decent, respectable women. Seduce' s daughter, Glory, full of thwarted love...
19) Los eufemismos
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Clara, la protagonista de esta novela, podría dividir su vida en dos partes: antes de la llegada de los eufemismos era una estudiante de posgrado con una relación estable y proyectos profesionales. Un día recibe una llamada en la que le dicen que su madre se encuentra "muy nerviosa" -se trata del primer eufemismo- y entonces todo cambia, tal vez de manera irreparable. ¿Qué pasa cuando la figura materna se desmorona?, ¿cómo enfrentarlo con humor,...
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Notre M�re nous avait con�us chacun � midi, mes deux fr�res cadets et moi, et nous avait accouch�s dans la nuit, dans la douleur. Notre vie de mis�rables dess�ch�e par les rayons br�lants de midi, d�gageait une puanteur acerbe que nul enfant de lumi�re ne d�sirerait. C'est le soleil qui m'a br�l�e. Notre P�re, nous ne le voyions qu'une fois la journ�e, les midis o� il n'�tait pas vraiment � nous. C'est Notre M�re...
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