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Beasts of a Little Land
Juhea Kim
"A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart." --Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A...
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The Golden Chariot
Salwa Bakr
ONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT ARABIC NOVELS OF THE 2OTH CENTURY (THE NATIONAL) A classic of modern Egyptian literature,...
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Generation Impact
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An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution Meet the next generation of big donors—the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists...
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Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul....
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Perhaps the Stars
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From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book...
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Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov
"No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime...
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of...
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