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Dukes's gripping historical novel tells the tale of a desperate Albanian woman who will do whatever it takes to keep her independence and seize control of her future...even if it means swearing to remain a virgin for her entire life.
When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with...
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For fans of Alka Joshi's The Henna Artist, comes a compelling love story set against a culture grounded in tradition, about to be changed forever in the onslaught of WWII.
My name is Layla and I was born under an unlucky star. For a young girl growing up in India, this is bad news. But everything began to change for me one spring day in 1943, when three unconnected incidents, like tiny droplets on a lily leaf, tipped and rolled into one. It was that...
83) Edisto: A Novel
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Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina, in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as "the Duchess"), who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself...
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Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer's son Though his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous-not with a mistress, but with one of the city's finest doctors. Kramer plans to enlist him in a noble purpose: keeping his son out of Vietnam. The doctor won't provide this service to just anyone, but he and Benny have a mutual friend in the...
85) The Buried Life
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The stories and sketches collected in The Buried Life offer an intimate perspective of people responding to challenges they encounter in dealing with the conditions of their lives. These vignettes revolving around a variety of story lines introduce a wide range of characters, some are set against the background of events during the 1940s and 1950s depicted in A Stirring of the Air, Shifting of the Light. Others develop initial incidents in a culture...
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Histoire courtes écrites sur un bout de trottoir est un recueil de petits récits. Le lien qui les unit, et qui justifie cette compilation, est le monde fantastique.Qu'est le fantastique ? C'est ce qui commence au-delà du réel. Dès que le récit nous montre un fait qui ne peut pas exister, nous somme dans le monde fantastiqueLe monde fantastique peut être visible sans consistance réelle, une ombre existe, mais elle n'a aucune consistance, vous...
87) The Great Divide
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The Great Divide is a wonderful little book of poems, that reflects the author's view on life in Cheney, Spokane County, Washington State. Each poem gives a contrast of the author's point of view, allowing the readers to reflect, with the hope that his ponderings also resonates with those who are especially familiar to this area.
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Two Jewish brothers plan futures full of achievement and maybe fame. But Warsaw in the summer of 1939 is no place for dreamers.
Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners....
89) The Keening
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A family torn apart by the effects of war must now deal with the trickle-down effects of peace: the collapse of the kelp industry on which they depend. Sheila McLean worries about her children getting ahead in the rapidly industrializing world of 1822, while her second husband Gillan is never quite sure about his ability to replace the father of her children. Neil, the firstborn son at sixteen, must put duty before his own hopes and dreams, but what...
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Un homme en proie à l'alcoolisme raconte sa vie, sa mort, et sa quête de rédemption, y compris son expérience depuis l'au-delà. Avec fluidité et sous une pointe d'humour, "Jour et nuit, nuits et jours – Opus I – Récit d'un homme bien ordinaire" vous dévoile des coutumes rurales, des anecdotes piquantes, des expressions pittoresques, le tout agrémenté de dessins, gravures et croquis réalisés par l'auteur.
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Este libro, que fue un bestseller la primera vez que fue publicado hace 35 años, cuenta la historia de la familia Sandoval, una familia que huye a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Héctor, el patriarca de los Sandoval trabaja en el campo y lucha por alimentar a su familia mientras se enfrenta a la discriminación y la injusticia que encuentra esta nueva sociedad. De sus hijos, sólo Pete logra alcanzar una existencia un tanto más cómoda,...
92) Chicano: A Novel
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A bestseller when it was published in 1970 at the height of the Mexican-American civil rights movement, Chicano unfolds the fates and fortunes of the Sandoval family, who flee the chaos and poverty of the Mexican Revolution and begin life anew in the United States.
Patriarch Hector Sandoval works the fields and struggles to provide for his family even as he faces discrimination and injustice. Of his children, only Pete Sandoval is able to create...
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Jose se enamoro de Dana si saber que era su media hermana, creyendo en esa mentira inventada por lo padres de ambos, mentiras que son como dagas que no penetran tu piel, pero si tu corazon y tu alma, ellos sufrieron por muchos años por tanto amor que se tenian, pero el tiempo es un juez implacable, todo depende de el para ver quien es el vencedor.
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Ayant vécu une période nazie, Charles Boucaud a développé des sentiments peu nobles à l'endroit des Allemands. Plus tard, ctoyant ces derniers, notamment comme employeur et amis, l'auteur, enrichi d'une certaine philosophie et d'un humour certain, a reconsidéré sa vision de la vie. Ceux qui ont pratiqué l'esclavage sont morts et leurs familles n'en sont pas responsables. Dans ce monde nouveau, le dialogue a été instauré. Cet ouvrage est...
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Un livre avec deux destins croisés, deux personnages très différents, tout les sépare. Pourtant, ils vont se croiser, s'aimer et se détester. La vie n'est jamais une autoroute entière.Le début de l'histoire commence à Laredo, une ville du Texas. Si nous traversons la rue, nous sommes au Mexique. Le choix de la ville n'est pas anodin, l'étranger, ou le futur migrant est votre voisin. À quelques pas de là, le Mexique en a implanté un nouveau,...
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"Wiener has rescued an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent, with her trademark intelligence and irreverent humor. Her prose, sober and forward, is fresh air; her view allows us to be testimonies of Latin America's cycles of plundering and looting."-Valeria Luiselli, author of The Lost Children Archive and Tell Me How It Ends
An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her...
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Voyagez dans le temps avec l'histoire captivante de Joseph du Gourdou, un jeune planteur du 18 siècle qui s'installe sur l'île de Saint-Domingue après que Louis XIV a réclamé une part de ce joyau des Caraïbes. Découvrez les péripéties de sa vie, de la création de sa plantation luxuriante aux défis de la paternité, en passant par les tragédies de la malaria et de la Révolution française. En 1825, l'histoire se termine en apothéose avec...
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Winner of a whopping nine awards and counting, including the Nautilus Award, Cygnus Award, Independent Press Award, Literary Titan Award, Firebird Book Award, Maincrest Media Book Award, Best Book Award Finalist, and three honorable mentions at the prestigious New York, Hollywood, and San Francisco Book Festivals A search for truth by those that transcend time. Set against the backdrop of the war between science and God, reason and faith, Einstein...
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From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel "La Negra" Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island.
Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status-armed with incredible physical presence,...
100) Invited
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A life saved. A debt owed. Once again, Ivy Tangiers finds herself reluctantly following along with another of her boyfriend's schemes. This time: a tailor-made haunted house.The book deals, the TV interviews, the Netflix documentaries. Money and fame will fall right into their lap.And now that he's found the perfect location, he just needs the perfect ghosts.With the help of a world-renowned spirit guide, the long-dead children of Sparrow House are...
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