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"This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." -The New York Times Book Review
A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee's escape from civil war-and the healing power of community.
A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all-the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy...
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Quarante ans plus tard, le roman de Blaise Ndala revisite le «combat du siècle» entre Mohamed Ali et George Foreman en 1974 au Zaïre. Plus qu'un récit sur la boxe, c'est l'histoire de l'Afrique au lendemain de la décolonisation. Dans un style vif et incisif, l'auteur nous montre l'envers du décor d'un combat mémorable.
La musique, la poésie et la magie servent à nous faire découvrir les Africains sous un jour étourdissant. Ils sont drles,...
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During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
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The global coffee trade is a collision between the rich world and the poor world.A group of graduate students is about to experience that collision head-on.Angela, Alex, Rich, and Sofi a bring to their summer research project in Guatemala more than their share of grad-school baggage-along with clashing ideas about poverty and globalization. But as they follow the trail of coffee beans from the Guatemalan peasant grower to the American coffee drinker,...
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The "him" in Make Him Look Good is Ricky Biscayne, sexy Latin singing sensation who has taken the pop world by storm. But, it takes more than swiveling hips and dreamy eyes to get to the top of the charts. The women who orbit Ricky are:
- Milan, Ricky's new publicist, and her sister Geneva whose Club G promises to have Miami's hottest opening ever
- Jill Sanchez, a media-manic Latina star who has crossed over from CDs to perfume, clothes and movies
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Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence, intelligence and a timid foot in two distinct cultures.
In these stories, Derek Mascarenhas takes...
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Once upon a time, America was great and life was positive beyond all imagination; but a dark economic and moral deterioration has now slowly settled upon the landscape. Even the cherished rule of legitimate law has been replaced by extortionist political inquisition. This is the story of one mans escape and his ascendancy into glittering wealth and eternal glory. As always, print copies of all books are available via amazon or The Book Patch
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It can be a struggle for anyone-aligning bold dreams with family expectations...
Melina is no stranger to that struggle. Being raised in a strong, family-centered Mexican American culture, she has dreams of discovering the world beyond her neighborhood's limited boundaries. Melina loves her family but has decided to break from her family's cultural norms and attend college several hours away in hopes of a different life than she's used to. But trying...
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Book set includes book one through three, complete story.
The story starts in Kabul, Afghanistan were the Afghan president asked the USA for assistant in stopping the Taliban who has terrorized the city, from throwing acid on women's faces, to poisoning the women trying to get an education. Tools of the Taliban include public flogging, murder and suicide bombers. The women are afraid to get an education. SSGT Jones will lead a special trained force...
10) 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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Numerous authentic images of cross on archaeological findings, monuments, cult structures and traditional clothes of different peoples of the world, put in chronological order, serve to show how this symbol spread around the globe. The author comes to conclusion that cross is a graphic symbol of human conquest of the planet and subjugation of other humans, as well as a symbol of urge to know. The author also expresses hope that cross, as a religious...
12) Washika: A Novel
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It's summer in the '60s. Twenty-one testosterone-drenched high school graduates are bussed to a summer job at the Company bush camp Washika. Idealistic, confident, sometimes troubled, they meet their match in tough older bush workers, a devastating forest fire, sand flies and leeches, and occasionally beautiful young women.
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Susie is a four-year-old determined child born in the UK, whose parents have come to the UK from the Caribbean during the Windrush years in the late 1950s to help with rebuilding the country after the Second World War. A battle of wills ensues between the diminutive, wiry and strong-willed Susie and her overbearing and towering father who commands obedience from not only Susie and her siblings, but also her mother.
Although tender in years, Susie...
15) The Last Suttee
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"You must come at once, if you want to stop the suttee from happening again..." This phone message summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the blue town of her youth, and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever... As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnessed the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolated herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summoned the courage to escape the isolated...
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Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your palate long after you put it down. Much of the action revolves around a bitter, protracted homeowner’s association dispute in north San Diego County, alternately, hilarious and enraging. It's a novel...
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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...
20) The Journey
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The year was 1966. Interfaith marriages in India were a taboo. They were rare and often provoked violence.
The Journey is the telling of one such love; of the trials and tribulations faced by a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl, both mired in a forbidden love.
The novel delves into the complexities of interfaith marriages and unravels the resentment and intolerance of individuals in particular and society in general.
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