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  • This Burns My Heart

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    In this “extraordinary” (Chicago Tribune) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a socie[more below]

    • Author: Park, Samuel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 06 2012
    • ISBN10: 1439199620
    • Language: English
  • Home

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    “Home” finds Kossi Komla-Ebri between places and identities, cultures and languages, expectations and realities, Europe and Africa. Across these eleven short stories, Komla-Ebri crosses genres and bor… [more below]

    • Series: Crossings #34
    • Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 126
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1599541904
    • Language: English
  • Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan: Stories and Essays from Japan’s Most Famous Foreign Observer

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    “The Japanese people are more mysterious than I imagined through Hearn’s books.” –Albert Einstein

    Lafcadio Hearn is the most significant early interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture for the West–

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    • Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 4805317140
    • Language: English
  • Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia

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    Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.

    • Series: Excelsior Editions
    • Author: Mo, Xue
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 710
    • Publish Date: November 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1438494947
    • Language: English
  • Jerusalem Stands Alone

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    By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied … [more below]

  • Allah’s Spacious Earth

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    Allah’s Spacious Earth is a stunningly fresh and timely political dystopia that depicts the tragic yet very real consequences of tensions between majority populations and Muslim minorities in the West

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  • The Impostor

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    Damon Galgut is one of South Africa’s most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid Sou… [more below]

    • Author: Galgut, Damon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 06 2009
    • ISBN10: 802170536
    • Language: English
  • Jim Wrenn

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    “Who wants a seven-year-old boy, or a four-year-old girl?” Danville, Va. Times-News, January 4, 1918

    Seeing something of himself in a struggling teenage boy, an old man faces one final challenge–and a

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    • Author: Guerrant, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 0692925589
    • Language: English
  • Retrato En Sepia / Portrait in Sepia: Portrait in Sepia – Spanish-Language Edition

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    Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, ?sta es una magn?fica novela hist?rica, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los esp?ri[more below]

    • Author: Allende, Isabel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 052543352X
    • Language: Spanish
  • Sister of My Heart

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    From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apa… [more below]

    • Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 18 2000
    • ISBN10: 038548951X
    • Language: English
  • Rumbo Al Hermoso Norte: Una Novela

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    Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn’t the only man who ha… [more below]

    • Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0316054860
    • Language: Spanish
  • Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

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    The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle ch… [more below]

    • Author: Songling, Pu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 608
    • Publish Date: October 31 2006
    • ISBN10: 0140447407
    • Language: English
  • Monkey Bridge

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    Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war.

    Like navigating a monkey bridge

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    • Author: Cao, Lan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: June 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0140263616
    • Language: English
  • The World We Found

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    “Stunning . . . . This is a novel that rewards reading, and even re-reading. The World We Found is a powerful meditation.” —Boston Globe

    Thrity Umrigar, acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and Th

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Umrigar, Thrity
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0061938351
    • Language: English
  • The Chinese Bell Murders

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    Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the “Sherlock Holmes of ancient China”

    Fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in

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    • Series: Judge Dee Detective Story
    • Author: Van Gulik, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 262
    • Publish Date: August 03 2004
    • ISBN10: 0060728884
    • Language: English
  • The Full Catastrophe

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    Winner, 2023 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

    Finalist, 2023 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

    A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and th

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    • Author: Cook, Méira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 348
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 1487009941
    • Language: English
  • Please Look After Mom

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE – When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Shin, Kyung-Sook
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 03, 2012
    • ISBN10: 0307739511
    • Language: English
  • Everything Inside: Stories (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)

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    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – “Unforgettable tales of families and lovers–from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond–often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” Vanity[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Danticat, Edwidge
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0525563059
    • Language: English
  • Kaleidoscope

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    A dazzling novel about the tumultuous relationship between two sisters, a shocking loss that changes everything, and the life-altering adventure that follows.

    Morgan and Riley Brighton are joint heir… [more below]

    • Author: Wong, Cecily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593184467
    • Language: English
  • Probably Ruby

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    An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history.

    Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award – “Enga[more below]

    • Author: Bird-Wilson, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: January 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593448693
    • Language: English
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