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Betrayal In Black by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPolice lights illuminate a dark street on a dark night in a small Michigan town. A vehicle has been pulled over; the cop claims the occupants resemble robbery suspects. No traffic law has been violated. The man is the wrong age, the woman, the wrong sex and small children are seated in the back. Still, the officer persists... -
![Die vierte Wand: Roman by Sorj Chalandon]()
Die vierte Wand: Roman by Sorj Chalandon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKann Theater Frieden schaffen?Paris 1982: Georges verspricht seinem sterbenskranken Freund Samuel, einem Theaterregisseur, seinen Herzenswunsch zu erfüllen: die Aufführung von ›Antigone‹ im vom Bürgerkrieg zerrütteten Beirut, direkt an der Front, in einem zerbombten Kinosaal, mit einem Ensemble, das sämtliche Kriegsparteien repräsentiert... -
![Redeeming The Billionaire by Christina Tetreault]()
Redeeming The Billionaire by Christina Tetreault
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBillionaire Trent Sherbrooke works hard and plays harder. He’s never once cared what the media or society says about him, until now. Intent on making his way into the United States Senate, Trent hires campaign advisor Marty Phillips, a ruthless force in politics who will stop at nothing to get his candidate elected... -
![Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 by Eavan Boland]()
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 by Eavan Boland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention... -
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![Application for Release from the Dream: Poems by Tony Hoagland]()
Application for Release from the Dream: Poems by Tony Hoagland
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe eagerly awaited, brilliant, and engaging new poems by Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me The parade for the slain police officergoes past the bakery and the smell of fresh breadmakes the mourners salivate against their will... -
![Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique by Gonçalo M. Tavares, Daniel Hahn]()
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique by Gonçalo M. Tavares, Daniel Hahn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second installment in Tavares’s acclaimed “Kingdom” series. In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion... -
![Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery]()
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood... -
![Never My Love by Kathryn Shay]()
Never My Love by Kathryn Shay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe finally finds a woman he can love, but she wants to be president of the United States!Annalise Manwaring inherited the ambition gene from her presidential father. She planned her schooling and each of her jobs all to reach her goal of occupying the Oval Office. Nothing’s going to stop her.Luke Branson has always resented Annalise, even before he met her... -
![Ahol megszakad by Péter Závada]()
Ahol megszakad by Péter Závada
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Moszkva tér kocsmáitól a népligeti fákig, az Oktogon hajszalonjaitól a Bartók Béla úti mecsetig sokféle tájat bejárnak Závada Péter versei, akit legtöbben a kortárs underground kultikus zenekara, az Akkezdet Phiai tagjaként ismernek, ám a dalszövegei mellett évek óta publikál rangos irodalmi folyóiratokban is... -
![Jasmine Days by Benyamin]()
Jasmine Days by Benyamin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSameera moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives, when a revolution blooms. Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, this is the story of a young woman, whose happy world falls apart when the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division... -
![Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet]()
Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself or a foreigner's nightmare of New York as its true protagonist... -
![King Charles III by Mike Bartlett]()
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen... blessed with wit, clarity and moments of deeper feeling. Outstanding and provocative... There is barely a moment when the fizz goes out of the writing and the narrative keeps springing surprises.... tremendous... -
![The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn]()
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWoven out of three monologues in what one reviewer called "a triple sonata of oppression and incomprehension" ( The Sunday Times , London), Wallace Shawn's new play is a masterful drama about the self, politics, and the pursuit of aesthetic subtleties in brutal times. The three characters are the eponymous designated mourner, Jack; his wife, Judy; and Judy's erudite father, Howard... -
![أبو عمر المصري by عزالدين شكري فشير]()
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![Açúcar Amargo by Luiz Puntel]()
Açúcar Amargo by Luiz Puntel
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can find alternative covers for this ISBN here and here.Trabalhar e estudar não é fácil. Principalmente quando se trata do difícil trabalho dos bóias-frias nas lavouras de cana. Mas é essa a realidade em que vivem, e é nela que Marta vai aprender o sentido da luta social e do amor... -
![Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers]()
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHighly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. "Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes."--USA Today...Categorized as:
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![Cool Gardens by Serj Tankian]()
Cool Gardens by Serj Tankian
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Serj Tankian, lead vocalist for critically acclaimed band System of a Down, comes a striking debut poetry collection highlighting his best work of the past eight years.Like System of a Down's platinum-selling second album, Toxicity―hailed by Rolling Stone as "a bouquet of smart rock and ardent social argument" and by SPIN as "the sound of now"―Tankian's poetic style is willfully eclectic...Categorized as:
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![No Onions Nor Garlic by Srividya Natarajan]()
No Onions Nor Garlic by Srividya Natarajan
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmandeep, Murugesh, Rufus and Sundar are bucks who talk dirty for the same reason that they remove the mufflers from their motorcycle exhausts— it makes them feel like men. Like libertines. To their hormonal despair, when Professor Ram stages his remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream at their college fest, he casts these four as fairies... -
![Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh]()
Like It Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHas anyone ever asked you—What were the best days of your life? That one period of your life you always wanted to go back to? And live that life . . . one more time? When asked this, I closed my eyes and went back in my own past. And I thought . . . . . . of the days, when life's most complex choices had a simple solution of Akkad Bakkad Bambey Bo! . . -
![Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses]()
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations inform storytelling... -
![L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf]()
L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRiad a 14 ans, ses cheveux blonds ont disparu, et il a un physique difficile. À la fin du tome précédent, son père s’est enfui en Syrie avec son plus jeune frère, Fadi. Tandis que sa mère utilise tous les recours légaux pour récupérer son fils, Riad poursuit son exploration de cet âge pénible qu’est l’adolescence et se réfugie dans le paranormal... -
![Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms...Categorized as:
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![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha]()
Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety... -
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![Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze]()
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction... -
![Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker]()
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )... -
![A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]()
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings‘A rare and remarkable book.' Times Literary SupplementGilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Félix Guattari (1930-1992) was a psychoanalyst at the la Borde Clinic, as well as being a major social theorist and radical activist...Categorized as:
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![Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan]()
Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate stalls of Akka, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, through evergreen oases of date plantations in the Jordan Valley, to the fading fish markets of Gaza City... -
![The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle]()
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future...Categorized as:
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![La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero]()
La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEsta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana.A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil...
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