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21) Against Nature
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Joris-Karl Huysmans's cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe
A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abandon, and the aesthetics of artifice, Against Nature brings us the nineteenth-century rebel Jean des Esseintes-disaffected, degenerate, and art-obsessed. The last of a proud and noble family, des Esseintes retreats from the world in disgust at bourgeois...
22) Cave of bones
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"When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they're concerned about a beloved instructor who went...
23) The Job
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After a family member tragically falls ill, Una Golden was forced to move from Pennsylvania to New York in order to get a job to help support her family. Set in the early 1900s, going to the big city as a single woman was daunting and unconventional, but Una is dedicated to helping her family. After diligently job searching and excelling in additional training and education, Una discovers that she has the skills to be a talented commercial real estate...
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
25) Equal And Alike
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A young man leaves his father's farm to make his way. He gravitates to Independence, Missouri, in mid-19th Century. It is not long before Argonauts form wagon trains to depart the city to make the trip across the continent to seek their fortune in search of gold in the California wilderness. Joshua McBride is curious.
He happens upon a meeting designed to recruit members to a company of gold seekers bent on making a fast trip to the goldfields. The...
26) The Flying Years
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Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven's The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House, Angus secretly marries a Cree woman, who dies in a measles epidemic while he is on an extended business trip. The discovery, fourteen years later, that...
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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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To die in a fire is one of the most terrible deaths. Who would want to die with the skin and muscles in ebullition "swallowing smoke, swallowing misery, swallowing one's own consciousness"? This happened to thirty six people the last day of January 1980 in the Spaniard Embassy in Guatemala City. If we had seen the episode, without a doubt, we would have frequent nightmares similar to the ones that hunt those who survived the years of the politics...
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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...
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In 1942, Danya was asked to do the unthinkable. Already sentenced to death for distributing anti-Fascist literature, German SS Commandant Heinrich Tauber offered her a chance at a reprieve-if she would breed with soldiers under the Lebensborn Program, to produce new Aryan soldiers to replace those Germans killed in Russia. As her wall of resistance weakens against the continuous onslaught from the SS, devilishly handsome and shrewd double agent Arie...
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When Lee Ann Revell, a newspaper reporter for the Charleston Courier, receives an assignment to interview Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz for a story on latch-key kids in 1999, she feels an immediate attraction to the tall, dark, and handsome man. Lee Ann and the Rabbi are opposites. He, of course is Jewish, and she was raised Southern Baptist. She wore her blonde hair in a French braid, and he wore a yarmulke that did not conceal his luxuriant black hair....
33) Fragile Courage
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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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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
35) 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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The Nights are Hotter in Africa...
When Erica Knight arrives in Lebombo Game Reserve for her first African safari she has no idea that her life is about to be changed forever. As an executive for a mining company she believes that negotiating the mining rights for the Lebombo Reserve will be a slam-dunk, but she didn't count on locking horns with the reserve's enigmatic owner, Jean-Luc de Graaf.
In the heart of a wild African landscape full of beauty...
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The best days of my first year as a teenage girl were my encounters with Tezen, a lovely fish who always called me by my first name, Alicia, in the land of Haiti. I still remember our conversations, each of us desperately wanting to discover the universe of the other. There was a mystery somewhere for both of us to unearth. How do humans live? How do fishes live? Our questions sounded similar because our worlds were each unknown to one another.
Nevertheless,...
38) 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...
39) 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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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.
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