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  • The Returnees by Okoh, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Okoh

    The Returnees

    '[An] evocative tale of identity, friendship and unexpected love' Mail on Sunday'Marks Okoh as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.' AnOther magazine 'A brilliant read' Closer After a bad break up, 25-year-old Osayuki Isahosa leaves behind everything she holds dear in London to...
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  • A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas by Shrayer, Maxim D.
    Maxim D. Shrayer

    A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas

    A literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America, Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant features the travails of Simon Reznikov, a restless Jewish-Russian protagonist.Author: Maxim D. ShrayerISBN-10: 1644690365ISBN-13: 9781644690369Publisher: Cherry Orchard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2019Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d
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  • Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories by Chai, May-Lee
    May-Lee Chai

    Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories

    A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through...
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  • Lawn Boy Lib/E by Evison, Jonathan
    Jonathan Evison

    Lawn Boy Lib/E

    Author: Jonathan EvisonISBN-10: 1665135867ISBN-13: 9781665135863Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbs
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  • The Bend of the Road: Tiding Westward by Brehmer, Keith R.
    Keith R. Brehmer

    The Bend of the Road: Tiding Westward

    For centuries the remote enclave of Dithmarschen on the edge of the North Sea weathered storms--both natural and political. A free farmer's republic during medieval times, the management of storm surges and repulsion of threats to autonomy kept the region safe and out of...
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  • Urban Romance by George, Nelson
    Nelson George

    Urban Romance

    Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But this smooth-talking b-boy has yet to try working love into his lingo--until "buppie" Danielle Embry slides into and rocks...
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  • Theft: Stories by Koenings, N. S.
    N. S. Knings

    Theft: Stories

    The path from Europe to Africa has been much traveled in literature but rarely in such an evocative, nuanced, and even playful way as in N.S. Kenings's Theft. Here are five seductive tales that move with grace and subtlety between the two continents and...
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  • Great Sand Fracas of Ames County by Apps, Jerry
    Jerry Apps

    Great Sand Fracas of Ames County

    When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the small Ames County village of Link Lake, events quickly escalate to a crisis. Business leader Marilyn Jones of the Link Lake Economic Development Council heads the pro-mine forces, citing needed jobs and...
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  • Stolen Moments of Joy by Baika, Hamour
    Hamour Baika

    Stolen Moments of Joy

    An "...engaging and readable tale about escaping the bonds of the past."Kirkus Reviews"Stolen Moments of Joy... offers far more social and political depth than many LGBTQ stories that focus on romance and sexual maturity alone... Readers gain solid insights into this culture and realistic...
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  • Bad Fruit by King, Ella
    Ella King

    Bad Fruit

    "[A] blistering psychological thriller." --The New York Times Book Review "A compelling debut that fizzes with tension from start to finish, blending the subtle erudition of literary fiction with the drama and suspense of the very best thrillers. Masterful in its evocation of the...
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  • Offerings by Kim, Michael Byungju
    Michael Byungju Kim

    Offerings

    The national bestseller that Gary Shteyngart has called, "A potent combination of a financial thriller and a coming-of-age immigrant tale. . . . Offerings is a great book." With the rapidly cascading Asian Financial Crisis threatening to go global and Korea in imminent meltdown,...
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  • Cloves for Kolosia by Rambe, Hanna
    Hanna Rambe

    Cloves for Kolosia

    Indigenous islanders in Indonesia's exotic Spice Islands of the 1600s rise up to defend themselves and their honored traditions when Dutch colonialists lay waste to their idyllic landscape and their tranquil lives. Elderly widower Gamati swears to save his family line from extinction when...
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  • The Italian Prisoner by Speranza, Elisa M.
    Elisa M. Speranza

    The Italian Prisoner

    1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to...
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  • Andalusian in Jerusalem by Benarroch, Mois
    Mois Benarroch

    Andalusian in Jerusalem

    "Mois Benarroch is the best Sephardic Mediterranean writer in Israel today."Haaretz Literary Supplement, 2020.Prof. Habiba Pdaya. The Jerusalem syndrome: a Spanish teenager decides to reveal a false secret to his closest friend and tells him he is a Jew. To his surprise his friend...
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  • North by Kessler, Brad
    Brad Kessler

    North

    A powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by Brad Kessler, the award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the Vermont Book...
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  • Jacob's Place by Hewitt, H. C.
    H. C. Hewitt

    Jacob's Place

    It was the best time in Jacob Hudson's life. He was about to marry Abigail Rodgers, his best friend and love of his life. Together they would build their dream home and start a family. Jacob's carpentry business was successful and he was closer...
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  • Griuns: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village - A folk tale by Patten, Nigel
    Nigel Patten

    Griuns: The genesis of a small Swiss alpine village - A folk tale

    "Imagination will often carry us to world that nver were, but without it we go nowhere." - Karl SaganWithout archives for the Swiss Chablais region dating from the 11th century, this tale imagines, with some historical deduction, who the first permanent settlers were in...
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  • The Magic of Saida by Vassanji, M. G.
    M. G. Vassanji

    The Magic of Saida

    From Giller Prize-winner M. G. Vassanji comes the story of Kamal Punja, son of an African mother and an Indian father, who has been living in Canada for forty years. Despite his material wealth, Kamal finds himself longing for the place of his birth--Africa--and...
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  • Scatterlings by Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
    Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

    Scatterlings

    A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning--and the most awarded debut title in South Africa--that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family's scattered souls in the...
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  • Scatterlings by Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
    Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

    Scatterlings

    A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning--and the most awarded debut title in South Africa--that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family's scattered souls in the...
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  • Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversay Edition by Goto, Hiromi
    Hiromi Goto

    Chorus of Mushrooms: 20th Anniversary Edition

    Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest Press' long-running Nunatak First Fiction Series, Hiromi Goto's inaugural outing was recognized at the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes...
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  • Three Apples Fell from the Sky: The International Bestseller by Abgaryan, Narine
    Narine Abgaryan

    Three Apples Fell from the Sky: The International Bestseller

    An multi award-winning story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curses...
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  • Bindle Punk Bruja by Mesa, Desideria
    Desideria Mesa

    Bindle Punk Bruja

    Luna--or depending on who's asking, Rose--is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning...
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  • The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy by Chiziane, Paulina
    Paulina Chiziane

    The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy

    After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's...
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  • Send Her Back and Other Stories by Kaseke, Munashe
    Munashe Kaseke

    Send Her Back and Other Stories

    In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant Black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous...
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  • Curfew by Donoso, José
    José Donoso

    Curfew

    Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert...
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  • Her Father's Daughter by Stratton-Porter, Gene
    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Her Father's Daughter

    Her Father's Daughter is another delightful coming-of-age story by Gene Stratton Porter. Linda is the daughter of a highly skilled surgeon killed four years before in an automobile accident. Her older sister Eileen, a very superficial, selfish girl, has control of the family finances...
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  • The World of Suzie Wong by Mason, Richard
    Richard Mason

    The World of Suzie Wong

    Penguin Books reintroduces the timeless story of the love affair between a British artist and a Chinese prostitute.Robert is t he only resident of the Nam Kok hotel not renting his room by the hour when he meets Suzie at the bar. She becomes...
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  • Life Is Better in Color by Scherb, Dawn Lumbatis
    Dawn Lumbatis Scherb

    Life Is Better in Color

    "Life is Better in Color" proves that life would become monotone and boring without the brushful expression of color. People, places and animals would all look the same, everything would become dull and drab, unremarkable. Possessing the vision for color allows us to celebrate...
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  • The Heart of Summer by Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
    Felicity Hayes-McCoy

    The Heart of Summer

    "Maeve Binchy fans will adore it--she just gets better and better."--Patricia Scanlan On Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, summer means glorious weather and a life-changing choice for local librarian Hanna Casey in this delightful installment in the USA Today bestselling series, a captivating tale filled with...
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  • The Enchanted Clock by Kristeva, Julia
    Julia Kristeva

    The Enchanted Clock

    In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king's engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time--hours, minutes, seconds, and...
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  • The Story Hour by Umrigar, Thrity
    Thrity Umrigar

    The Story Hour

    From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and...
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  • And Laughter Fell from the Sky by Sreenivasan, Jyotsna
    Jyotsna Sreenivasan

    And Laughter Fell from the Sky

    "A timely story about what matters most deeply: our quest for love and acceptance....Jyotsna Sreenivasan's writing speaks straight to the heart."--Kim Barnes, author of In the Kingdom of MenAnd Laughter Fell from the Sky, the enthralling first novel from Jyotsna Sreenivasan, is a stirring...
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  • Bindle Punk Bruja by Mesa, Desideria
    Desideria Mesa

    Bindle Punk Bruja

    Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa, where a part-time reporter and club owner takes on crooked city councilmen, mysterious and...
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  • Children of the Catastrophe by Shoemaker, Sarah
    Sarah Shoemaker

    Children of the Catastrophe

    Set amid the backdrop of the massacre of Greeks and Armenians after World War I, a deeply affecting family story of love and survival infused with the rich historical detail and emotional power of Sisters of the Resistance and The Women in the Castle.It...
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  • Children of the Catastrophe by Shoemaker, Sarah
    Sarah Shoemaker

    Children of the Catastrophe

    Set amid the backdrop of the massacre of Greeks and Armenians after World War I, a deeply affecting family story of love and survival infused with the rich historical detail and emotional power of Sisters of the Resistance and The Women in the Castle.It...
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  • The Clowns from Paradise by Toro, Xelís de
    Xelís de Toro

    The Clowns from Paradise

    Vicente was raised in a Galician community in Northwest London, but prefers to establish his own identity further south, in Stockwell, where he lives in a squat with Andy, Patrick and the Lizard. They are professional jugglers and eke out a living putting on...
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  • The Village Idiot by Stern, Steve
    Steve Stern

    The Village Idiot

    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the "sweet celestial confusion" of Soutine's painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life...
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  • The Picture Bride by Geum-Yi, Lee
    Lee Geum-Yi

    The Picture Bride

    Winner of the Nautilus Award for Historical Fiction "Lee Geum-yi has a gift for taking little-known embers of history and transforming them into moving, compelling, and uplifting stories. The Picture Bride is the ultimate story of the power of friendship--a must read!" --Heather Morris,...
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  • This Is What I Want by Lancaster, Craig
    Craig Lancaster

    This Is What I Want

    In the sweltering heat of a Montana July, the small town of Grandview readies for its annual Jamboree. The event is meant to celebrate community, but this year tensions boil over, threatening to tear the town, and a family, apart.Sam Kelvig, a third-generation resident,...
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  • A Good Year for Roses by Frederick, Sue Chamblin
    Sue Chamblin Frederick

    A Good Year for Roses

    In 1957, two young women, Essie Donnelly and Minnie Pryor, one white and one black, travel together in a deeply segregated South to begin a harrowing search for the daughter of Essie's deceased sister Jewell. Essie struggles with life without her sister and the...
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  • Are You Enjoying?: Stories by Sethi, Mira
    Mira Sethi

    Are You Enjoying?: Stories

    An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. "Emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. I couldn't put this book down because...
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  • Empress by McCune, Evelyn B.
    Evelyn McCune

    Empress

    "McCune has recreated the splendor and intrigue of the imperial court in the Tang dynasty...giving us entertaining and informative access to a brilliant time and a complex woman."JEFFREY RIEGELChair, Department of East Asian LanguagesUniversity of California, BerkeleySweeping through exotic, turbulent seventh-century China, EMPRESS is...
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  • The Unknown Terrorist by Flanagan, Richard
    Richard Flanagan

    The Unknown Terrorist

    From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould's Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the...
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  • The Last Train to London by Clayton, Meg Waite
    Meg Waite Clayton

    The Last Train to London

    National BestsellerA Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice - A Jewish Book Award Finalist"An absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading up to World War II. . . . A glowing portrait of women rising up against...
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  • The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Nabokov, Vladimir
    Vladimir Nabokov

    The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

    From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into...
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  • Toronto, I Love You by Leclair, Didier
    Didier Leclair

    Toronto, I Love You

    Translated from French by Elaine Kennedy. Raymond Dossougbé flees the misery of his hometown in Benin and arrives in Toronto, which as soon as he arrives charms him. He sees the city as a place of freedom and light, a sanctuary where he, like...
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  • A Very Mexican Christmas by Fuentes, Carlos
    Carlos Fuentes

    A Very Mexican Christmas

    This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and...
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  • The Three-Arched Bridge by Kadare, Ismail
    Ismail Kadare

    The Three-Arched Bridge

    In the Balkan Peninsula, history's long-disputed bridge between Asia and Europe, the receding Byzantine empire has left behind a patchwork of warring peoples who fight over everything, from their pastures of sheep to the authorship of their countless legends. One such gruesome tale declares...
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  • The Hunting Ground by Tremblay, Lise
    Lise Tremblay

    The Hunting Ground

    A northern Canadian village, one of many remote settlements dotting the Quebec landscape, is in transition. Originally dependent on subsistence farming and logging, supplemented by winter hunting, its economy has gradually changed over the years: first increasingly dependent on guiding southern urbanites on hunting...
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