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A singular debut from "an important and radical new literary voice" (Elif Batuman), The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writerIt's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her failure.Increasingly...
2) Pardalita
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"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luaisa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...
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Vamba Sherif' s The Emperor' s Son is a gripping tale of Zaiwulo, a young prodigy dispatched to the ancient city of Musadu to train under the tutelage of Talata, a renowned sage of the legendary Haidarah family. In his new surroundings, the young Zaiwulo finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue surrounding Emperor Samori, the formidable leader whom the French have dubbed " the Black Napoleon." As...
5) Silence
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if i can count every grain of sand in the ocean of the beach, we made a trip to twice a week.
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Throughout "the LoneDogs of Scrabble" a human and dog narrative interweaves seamlessly in two distinct voices where the dogs are sentient beings and protagonists. An excerpt of the dog voice is below:
The cement floors of the cage were cold, but he, the young stray pup, was tired of the hunger and continuous fights to protect his territory. He had earned his own name by being the best scavenger of scraps…
The fact that he would have...
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A comprehensive guide to unlocking your full potential and finding balance in various aspects of life. In this book, we delve into the realms of sleep, mental control, mindfulness, sexual energy, happiness, physical strength, solitude, and invaluable life lessons inspired by the majestic eagle.In today's fast-paced and demanding world, it can be challenging to navigate through the complexities of daily life while maintaining our well-being and personal...
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The ten slice of life stories in this short story collection are about a young boy growing up and coming of age during the decade of the Sixties. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and some may just make you think. The Ricky Huening Stories are semi-autobiographical stories all based on some event in the author's life as a boy growing up in a southern Indiana farm.
9) Thumper
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At the age of four, you witness your mother's collapse as the washing machine overflows and sends clumps of soapsuds scudding past her across the kitchen floor. When your father goes to work, he leaves you next door at the Blue Belle Diner, under the watchful eye of Charlie, an ex-boxer turned short-order cook. The Diner becomes your day-care center as your mother waits for remission.
Deprived of a mother's physical affection, you become increasingly...
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Love continues. (Sequel to 'Love at First Encounter')The name suggests that their next encounters are full of love. Though it is true, but not in the way anyone expected. And what happens at the end of this book is again not expected.In their first month, no expectation of anything, but things happened. And now, when expected, things don't turn out the way they were expected to be… Encounters remain encounters... Unable to turn into meetings.
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La vida, al final, es el mayor de los misterios
Emma está internada en un hospital en el que los niños desaparecen a la mitad de la noche. Al día siguiente, las camas, que ellos dejan destendidas, vuelven a estar listas para recibir a nuevos pacientes, como si nada hubiese pasado. Ella está convencida de que algo oscuro ocurre en ese lugar y, armada de una imaginación alimentada por todos los libros que ha leído en su corta vida, de un espíritu...
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New York City. 1977.Santino De Luca, and his wife, Maria, and their three kids,live in a beautiful condominium called Carnegie Hill Place.Shortly after Santino announces his intention to run in the next StrataCouncil meeting, he's found dead by their daughter, Lucia, in theirbathtub, filled with red paint.NYPD investigators deemed the incident a suicide and closed the case.But Santino's brothers, Angelo and Sal, are convinced that poor Santinowas...
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While watching the demolition of his old school Placidus College, Simon Hickey looks back on ten turbulent, life defining years, when the first crop of Australia's baby boomers were awakening to their sexuality. Seduced by the power of the pulpit, and the Aquinine Brothers, Simon's attention is directed toward a religious vocation.
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Una exasperada profesora de ciencias sociales de secundaria con la mitad de su clase de último año reprobando, recurre a una medida drástica que resulta en el Mar de la Tranquilidad 2.0. Cuatro de sus estudiantes proponen un proyecto radical para ayudar a frenar el aumento del nivel del mar y proporcionar una patria a algunos de los millones de refugiados que están a la deriva por las guerras, las economías en quiebra y la violencia de las pandillas....
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New in the Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics series, Border Town is a classic Chinese novel-banned by Mao's regime-that captures the ideals of rural China through the moving story of a young woman and her grandfather. Originally published in 1934 by author Shen Congwen, this beautifully written novel tells the story of Cuicui, a young country girl who is coming of age in rural China in the tumultuous time before the communist revolution.
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Amidst the psychedelic haze and sexual revolution of Southern California in the Sixties, a young soul navigates the edge of innocence and self-discovery.
In the sun-soaked dream of 1960s Southern California, A Map of the Edge tells the poignant coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Rick, grappling with family secrets, heartache, and the treacherous underbelly of the counterculture. Abandoned by his mother and trapped in an abusive household, Rick...
18) The Frontrunner
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Russ Clayton is a young man who keeps losing the important people in his life. Each time someone disappears, he finds himself left adrift. The Universe stacked against him. He only finds peace running alone on the roads of his small town in Kansas.Russ finally believes that everyone in his life is gone. Feeling abandoned, reckless, and liberated, he gives himself up wholly to the running by setting an impossible goal. But, he needs help.Long ago,...
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Her rich girl party life is over. Her real-life adventure is about to start.Lorette Howland is the stuff of legends-as the most out-of-control party princess that ever lived, she is the darling of the rich young city crowd. Until she ticks off her strict dad one too many times, and he kicks her to the curb. Suddenly she finds herself broke, a complete social outcast, and... the unwilling landlady of the most horrible apartment building in the entire...
20) Let Evening Come
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After her mother is killed in a rare Northern Michigan tornado, Sadie Wixom is left with only her father and grandfather to guide her through the pitfalls of young adulthood. Hundreds of miles away in western Saskatchewan, Stefan Montegrand and his Indigenous family are forced off their land by multinational energy companies and flawed treaties. They are taken in temporarily by Sadie's aunt, a human rights activist who heads a cultural exchange program....
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