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  • Sharon and My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries

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    Based on diaries and email correspondence that she kept from 1981-2004, here Suad Amiry evokes daily life in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

    “A literary protest done with great wit, skill, and passion

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    • Author: Amiry, Suad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 19 2006
    • ISBN10: 1400096499
    • Language: English
  • At Home in the Heart of Appalachia: A Memoir

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    John O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved … [more below]

    • Author: O’Brien, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 17 2002
    • ISBN10: 0385721390
    • Language: English
  • Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the forma[more below]

    • Series: Vampire Chronicles #13
    • Author: Rice, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 20 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525433929
    • Language: English
  • Karnak Caf?

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    In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and… [more below]

    • Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: December 02 2008
    • ISBN10: 0307390454
    • Language: English
  • The Annotated Mansfield Park

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    From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park that makes her story of an impoverished girl living with her wealthy relatives a[more below]

    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 928
    • Publish Date: April 18 2017
    • ISBN10: 0307390799
    • Language: English
  • Comanches: The History of a People

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    Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to thei… [more below]

    • Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: April 08 2003
    • ISBN10: 1400030498
    • Language: English
  • Benjamin’s Crossing

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    The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin’s last days–adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.

    It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin–the German-Jewish critic and

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    • Author: Parini, Jay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: February 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 0525562753
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Ruth

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    Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Awardfor best first novel, this exquisite bookconfronts real-life issues of alienation and violencefrom which the author creates a stunning testamentto the … [more below]

    • Series: Oprah’s Book Club
    • Author: Hamilton, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 01 1989
    • ISBN10: 0385265700
    • Language: English
  • When Madeline Was Young

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    Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciv… [more below]

    • Author: Hamilton, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 04 2007
    • ISBN10: 1400096995
    • Language: English
  • War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

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    In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.

    At the t

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    • Author: Tucker, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: February 13 2007
    • ISBN10: 1400032334
    • Language: English
  • 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

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    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that “inspires wicked delight.” —Los[more below]

    • Author: Smiley, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: September 12 2006
    • ISBN10: 1400033187
    • Language: English
  • The Exception

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    An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprof… [more below]

    • Author: Jungersen, Christian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: July 08 2008
    • ISBN10: 1400096650
    • Language: English
  • The Annotated Northanger Abbey

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    From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey that makes her lighthearted satire of the gothic novel an even more satisfying[more below]

    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: October 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 0307390802
    • Language: English
  • Shot in the Heart: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

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    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – A murder tale “from inside the house where murder is born.” Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vei[more below]

    • Author: Gilmore, Mikal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: August 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0385478003
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Poetry of John Milton

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    • Author: Milton, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 672
    • Publish Date: July 06 1971
    • ISBN10: 0385023510
    • Language: English
  • Lust, Caution: The Story

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    A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during Worl

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    • Author: Chang, Eileen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 04 2007
    • ISBN10: 0307387445
    • Language: English
  • What They Fought for 1861-1865

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    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom–an impressive scholarly tour de force and a lively, highly accessible account of the sentiments of both Northern and Southern soldiers [more below]

  • Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales

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    Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times… [more below]

    • Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: August 10 2004
    • ISBN10: 1400076668
    • Language: English
  • The Double Comfort Safari Club

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    Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe–with [more below]

  • In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari

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    What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?

    In early 2002, En

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    • Author: Geda, Fabio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 12 2012
    • ISBN10: 0307743829
    • Language: English
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