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61) Grand Menteur
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The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the Menteur fears for the criminal future he has unwittingly introduced into his daughter's life, when her clear knack for violence...
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In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine-a corrupt and hallucinatory world filled with superstitions, gargantuan appetites, and surrealistic events. When rumors reach the authorities that strange and excessive gourmandise is being practiced in the city of Liquorland (so named for the staggering...
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A fascinating field guide to Philippine monsters and mythology!
From award-winning authors Budgette Tan and David Hontiveros comes The Lost Journal of Alejandro Pardo --a 19th-century cryptozoologist's account of his encounters with the strange and magical creatures from Philippine legends and mythology.
In this book, you'll come face-to-face with 36 mythical beasts including:
• The Kapre --A shape-shifter that morphs before your very eyes, disguising...
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The Cedar Hollow Series features the residents of the tiny coal-mining town of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia as they face the challenges and triumphs of life in Appalachia.
Appalachian Justice chronicles the life of Billy May Platte, who, in 1945 when she was fourteen years old and orphaned, was brutally attacked by a group of local boys after her sexuality was called into question. Cedar Hollow would never be the same.
Return to Crutcher Mountain...
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City of Joy, City of Paradoxes
Kolkata, in West Bengal, India, is nicknamed "The City Of Joy." Contrary to its name, it is a city of paradoxes. The stories in this collection provide fascinating glimpses into a panorama of baffling variety, its rich contrast of the simple and the sophisticated, the ancient and the modern. The characters are mostly drawn from the women of Kolkata, and seek to put the challenges of being a woman in India in a broader...
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AS WE LOOK BACK ON OUR LIVES ...
As we look back on our lives, there is usually that one special person that we lovingly recall who touched our lives in a very special way. For me, it was my beloved Mother that after having been told by her doctor that she did not have long to live, spent precious time with her then twelve-year-old son. The stories she told me, some about the family and others from the Bible, I discovered later, were to prepare me...
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Ireland in the mid-twentieth century, and Julia and Lydia Esdaile live with their widowed father, Willis, at Knockfane, a country house and farm where the Protestant Esdaile family have lived for centuries. When Willis inexplicably banishes his only son and heir, Edward, he concocts a complex plan to protect and preserve Knockfane for succeeding generations. But time passes, and Willis dies, and soon his intentions are threatened and thwarted by unforeseen...
68) Black & White
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1957 – Troubled times. Cracks are forming in the foundation of "separate but equal". Battle lines are being drawn and armies assembling on both sides of the issue.
A naïve and untraveled Donnie Hansen along with twenty other teens set out from Boston headed for North Carolina to hold a racially integrated youth conference. The ghosts of racism, both ethereal and solid, dog the journey from the start.
As the tour sinks below the Mason-Dixon...
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Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve-year-old, being captivated by this culture of theatre. The place was packed. Tiptoe, over the matt-black heads of the crowd, he could see the performers. He edged closer, but so rapt was everyone that none of them looked around. The figure who held...
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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...
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Sophea Lim is living the American dream as an aspiring executive producer at her local television station. But at the home she shares with her Cambodian mother and grandmother, her success is measured by how soon she can find a husband and how well she prepares a spring roll. While Sophea embraces her new life in America, her elders cling to memories of their old life in the Cambodian royal family. They continue to live in the shadow of the genocide...
72) 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...
73) 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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They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?
This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two young...
76) Blindsiders
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22 short-short Blindsiders and a short Blindsider art mystery introducing Italian Inspector Paolo Frascati of the Ministry of Art and Culture.
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A fictionalized account of the exile of the Chagossian Islanders from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1970's, this story follows youth, Ti Jean, through exile from his island Diego Garcia and on into adulthood. With "old ways" understanding and a true heart filled with the song of Chagos he brings forth the wisdom and spirit of his ancestors, the saga songs and dance, his own inner music. Jean's work inspires and helps others to survive amidst prejudice,...
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Letitia: A Heart Inspired to Heal is the fascinating story of a pioneer woman who is moved to study nursing after witnessing common medical tragedies of early twentieth-century Canada.Letitia's curious mind and brave spirit along with her desire to heal all living creatures captures the attention of Dr. Abraham Groves, Ontario's famous Country Doctor.As Dr. Groves innovates his approach toward medicine, changing the practice of medical surgery, Letitia...
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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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Indelible: Scrolls From the TeatroWhen the opportunity arose in a conference room of a bustling hospitality company, the unveiling of plans for an international resort destination, a Moroccan jewel, Marjorie awakened to the calling and headed across the Atlantic. Despite the camaraderie and lively cafe scene in Marrakech, when the financiers' scuffle broke out, a coercive attempt by their competition, the mysterious disappearance of her colleague,...
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