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| Doris May Lessing - Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949 |
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Doris Lessing offers her autobiography up to the year 1949, from her childhood and adolescence in Rhodesia, to her first marriage and abandonment of her two children, her jettisoning of religion and adopting of political activism. Though autobiographical elements have always found a way into her fic ...
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$2.08 - $10.85
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| Rachel Seiffert - The Dark Room |
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Rachel Seiffert’s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer’s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends h ...
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$1.95 - $11.16
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| Charles Wright - Black Zodiac |
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In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are poems suffused with spiritual longing, ly ...
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$1.99 - $1.99
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| Peter Maass - Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War |
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Peter Maass reports from the land that was Yugoslavia. His vivid descriptions of a place destroyed by war are highlighted by encounters with people on all sides who have been transformed into combatants. Maass grapples not just with the reality of Bosnia but with the question of why people make wars ...
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$2.92 - $10.17
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| Akhil Sharma - An Obedient Father |
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Ram Karan works for the New Delhi school system but supports his widowed daughter and grandaughter by taking bribes for a small time Congress party boss, until his involvement in a terrifying political campaign could cost him his life. A first novel.
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$1.99 - $1.99
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| Matthew Klam - Sam the Cat and Other Stories |
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Seven stories make up this collection by a writer the New Yorker called, in 1999, one of the 20 most promising young writers in America. The stories deal mostly with the lives of well-to-do but morally or emotionally unmoored young people. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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$9.60 - $9.60
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| Paul Kafka - Love: Enter |
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A romantic, computer-age love story set in Paris and New Orleans. Young Dan Shoenfeld, spending a year abroad after college, falls in love with Bou and Margot, two women who happen to be in love with each other. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, Paul Kafka's brilliant fir ...
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$1.99 - $15.95
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