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In Search of the Kite Runner by Judi Slayden Hayes
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner (Riverhead Books, 2003), Hosseini shows us an Afghanistan rich in tradition and culture and an Afghanistan torn apart by war and political strife. We see Muslims who are not so different from Christians or Jews... -
![The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan]()
The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine...Categorized as:
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![Fast Fury by Kaylea Cross]()
Fast Fury by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s a woman worth fighting for. Abby McKinley misses her sexy former neighbor from across the hall more than she expected—because he means more to her than she was ready to admit. When she learns the feeling is mutual, she balks at the idea of getting involved with a man who is sure to break her heart. But the pull between them is too strong to deny... -
![Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tantoo Cardinal]()
Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tantoo Cardinal
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation...Categorized as:
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![Jacaranda by Gaël Faye]()
Jacaranda by Gaël Faye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMilan, 11 ans, enfant unique, s’ennuie ferme dans une France où les échos des tragédies lointaines ne parviennent que par bribes, le soir, à la télévision. Et voilà que soudain, à la fin de l’été 1994, sa mère lui impose la présence d’un prétendu cousin de son âge, Claude...Categorized as:
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![Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary]()
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratings'Promise at Dawn' begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice. Alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Gary chronicles his childhood with her in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riviera. And he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War... -
![To Live by C.G. Cooper]()
To Live by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElmore Thadeus Nix, it's retirement time. You're sixty-five and ready. Take that final physical and then it's adios to your old life and hello to the new. Not so fast. Sorry, Elmore. Your plan's about to change. It's Elmore's last day of work. As part of his retirement, he heads to the family doctor for the follow-up to a routine physical. That's when the universe shifts on its axis. Cancer... -
![Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong]()
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWinner of the 2016 Whiting AwardOne of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2016"One of Lit Hub's "10 must-read poetry collections for April"Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition. His poems are by turns graceful and wonderstruck... -
![Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot by Rebecca Rosenberg]()
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot by Rebecca Rosenberg
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChampagne, France, 1800. Twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherited Le Nez (an uncanny sense of smell) from her great-grandfather, a renowned champagne maker. She is determined to use Le Nez to make great champagne, but the Napoleon Code prohibits women from owning a business... -
![Collected Stories by William Faulkner]()
Collected Stories by William Faulkner
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“A Bear Hunt,” “A Rose for Emily,” “Two Soldiers,” “Victory,” “The Brooch,” “Beyond”—these are among the forty-two stories that make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction...Categorized as:
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![Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls]()
Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić, Damion Searls
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later, the boy’s father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh...Categorized as:
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![Soul and Diana: An Atlanta Love Story by Jade Jones]()
Soul and Diana: An Atlanta Love Story by Jade Jones
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKwame "Soul" Asante, the son of a vicious African warlord, has never had it easy--especially after coming to America for new and prosperous beginnings. Putting his dark past behind him, he decides to get a normal 9 to 5 working as a corrections officer at a minimum security prison in Savannah, Georgia. Things are going swimmingly until the troublesome and mysterious Diana Prince crosses his path... -
![Hourglass by Danilo Kiš]()
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is considered to be his masterpiece...Categorized as:
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![Dirty Tactics by Peyton Banks]()
Dirty Tactics by Peyton Banks
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen S.W.A.T Sergeant Marcas MacArthur laid eyes on the bronze skin beauty who moved in next door, he swore he wouldn’t touch her. Leading one of the most elite S.W.A.T teams in the state of South Carolina, left no room for relationships. Marcas knew Sarena Rucker was a woman who deserved a man’s last name. She was a temptation he fought to resist and he vowed to stay far away from her... -
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![Correspondents by Tim Murphy]()
Correspondents by Tim Murphy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash... -
![A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher]()
A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA young boy and his adopted aunt become separated when the youngster is kidnapped by his wealthy, eccentric great-uncle, but mysterious ties continue to link the two unknowingly over the fifteen-year separation... -
![Demian by Hermann Hesse]()
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsEmil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth...Categorized as:
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![The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati]()
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOften likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe... -
![The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto]()
The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scintillating conclusion to the critically acclaimed historical saga: the Jan Michalski Prize–winning Sands of the Emperor trilogy."[Couto's] life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead... -
![Irons 3 by M.J. Fields]()
Irons 3 by M.J. Fields
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLieutenant Jaxson Irons, was born and bred to be the soldier, a leader, and a man whose life's center is his country. He has lived the life laid out before him, but now everything has changed. After the accident that nearly cost him his life, and secrets were revealed, Jax was left questioning everything and everyone, except his band of brothers and the woman who stood by him through it all... -
![Far from Home by Anne Bennett]()
Far from Home by Anne Bennett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA moving family drama of one young woman's fight to survive and to find a place to call home 1938: Sixteen-year-old Kate Monroe is living in Birmingham, far away from her family in Ireland. Her parents have always doted on her siblings, Sally and James, leaving no time for her. Kate harbours a dark secret, a deep longing for her cousin... -
![The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells]()
The Corsican Woman by Madge Swindells
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSybilia turned as if sleepwalking and, trance-like, walked down the stone steps to the living room. She shuddered as she took the rifle from the peg on the wall, but after only a moment's hesitation, she loaded it and went outside. Sybilia Rocca is beautiful, gentle and intelligent... -
![Curio by C.S. Poe]()
Curio by C.S. Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLlewellyn Cooper and his aunt Julia run Curio Cabinet in New York City’s West Village, where the clientele is as strange as the junk being amassed in their secondhand shop. Llewellyn and Julia have been as thick as thieves his entire life, and Llewellyn can’t imagine being anywhere else six days a week—even if Julia’s bizarre habits and inappropriate conversations drive him crazy... -
![Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran]()
Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure.Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings... -
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![Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter]()
Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"With authority and grace" (Essence), Imani All Mine tells the story of Tasha, a fourteen-year-old unwed mother of a baby girl. In her ghettoized world where poverty, racism, and danger are daily struggles, Tasha uses her savvy and humor to uncover the good hidden around her... -
![To Go on Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, Margarit Ordukhanyan]()
To Go on Living: Stories by Narine Abgaryan, Margarit Ordukhanyan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in rural Armenia in the aftermath of war, Narine Abgaryan’s haunting short stories show people finding hope and purpose again. Named “one of Europe’s most exciting authors” by the Guardian, Narine Abgaryan has written a dozen books which have collectively sold over 1.35 million copies... -
![Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov]()
Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his bees collect their pollen in peace.But Sergey lives in Ukraine, where a lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda has been dragging on for years...Categorized as:
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![The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf]()
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago...Categorized as:
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![Амадока by Sofia Andrukhovych, Софія Андрухович]()
Амадока by Sofia Andrukhovych, Софія Андрухович
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsПонівечений до невпізнаваности в одній із гарячих точок на Сході України, герой роману «Амадока» тільки дивом залишився живим. Це сумнівна втіха, оскільки важкі травми призвели до повної втрати пам’яти: чоловік не пам’ятає ні свого імени, ні звідки походить, не пригадує жодної близької людини, жодного фрагмента свого попереднього життя... -
![The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo]()
The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Indonesian island is hastily given independence, and a Chinese-educated homosexual who was born on the island returns from his Canadian university to find his life radically altered. The story, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, represents an account of a post-colonial disaster... -
![The Complete Veterans Affairs Romances: Gay Military Romances (Veterans Affairs) by A.E. Wasp]()
The Complete Veterans Affairs Romances: Gay Military Romances (Veterans Affairs) by A.E. Wasp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSMALL TOWN. BIG LOVE. Meet the Veterans of Red Deer, Colorado, and the men who love them. Five stories of love, friends, families, and home. Happy endings guaranteed. INCOMING - Book 1 - a Troy & Dmitri novel How do you comfort someone who won’t admit they’re hurt? Sparks fly on a hot 4th of July weekend between army vet Troy Johnson and veterinarian Dmitri Wellington... -
![Refuge by N.G. Osborne]()
Refuge by N.G. Osborne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a dusty, sweltering night, Noor Khan, a beautiful, headstrong Afghan refugee, comes face-to-face with Charlie Matthews, a brash, young American aid worker. To Noor's fury, Charlie breaks every cultural norm and pursues her. She wants nothing to do with him: her sole aim in life is to earn an overseas scholarship so she can escape the miseries of the refugee camps...Categorized as:
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![All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse]()
All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIEBeata Umubyeyi Mairesse's debut novel follows three generations torn apart by the Rwandan genocide, as they try to reconnect with one another, rebuild broken links, and find their place in today's world... -
![The Anatomy of Curiosity by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton]()
The Anatomy of Curiosity by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe follow-up to the acclaimed title The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff.In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor...Categorized as:
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![Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar]()
Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival." — The New York Times Book ReviewA transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war—and the healing power of community.A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way...Categorized as:
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![The Bone Fire by György Dragomán]()
The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom an award-winning European writer, a Gothic page-turner with all the menace and promise of a fairy tale In the aftermath of a revolution that has plunged her country into chaos, thirteen-year-old Emma’s small corner of the world is shattered after her dissident parents' death in a car crash...Categorized as:
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![A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt]()
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia...Categorized as:
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![I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart]()
I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. “Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. “Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad... -
![The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay]()
The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“A finely sculpted gem . . . Possibly the best novel to come from Quebec in 2013.”—Elle“A fluid and disturbing fable . . . Subtle and extraordinary.”—La Presse“An essential book.”—ChatelaineIn an unnamed and war-torn country, twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the sanctuary of the family’s orange grove...Categorized as:
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![Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine]()
Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSpanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more... -
![Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović]()
Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnović
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Vladan Borojević googles the name of his father Nedelko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People’s Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly discovers a dark family secret...Categorized as:
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![Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto]()
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem...Categorized as:
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![The Proof by Ágota Kristóf]()
The Proof by Ágota Kristóf
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen his twin brother Claus escapes across the frontier, Lucas is left to face a bleak existence in a post-war totalitarian state, "doing what has to be done in order to live". But all those he encounters, like himself, suffer an inner loss which primes them for ultimate tragedy...Categorized as:
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![No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib]()
No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsExit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future…when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s birth—from the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street...Categorized as:
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![The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine]()
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son’s desire for privacy as a personal affront... -
![The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji]()
The Sweetness of Tears by Nafisa Haji
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family... -
![The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua, Philip Simpson]()
The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua, Philip Simpson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Elusive, haunting.”— New York Times Book Review A husband’s search for his wife’s lover, lost amid the turbulence of the Yom Kippur War, is the heart of this dreamlike novel. Through five different perspectives, Yehoshua explores the realities and consequences of the affair and the search, laying bare deep-rooted tensions within family, between generations, between Jews and Arabs... -
![The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine]()
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos islandMina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO... -
![The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, Yishai Sarid]()
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, Yishai Sarid
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour the present” ( The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice), Yishai Sarid’s The Memory Monster is a harrowing parable of a young historian who becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust...Categorized as:
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![Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko]()
Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin's terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity.One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer's. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories...Categorized as:
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