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Els assassins de l'emperador by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRare...Categorized as:
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![The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah]()
The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state...Categorized as:
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![A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar]()
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
![Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky]()
Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings* illustrated with many images related to Dostoyevsky's work, life and places* includes rare translations of short stories available nowhere else* the unfinished novel NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA* the rare novels UNCLE'S DREAM and THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO* informative and brief introductions to ALL of the novels* ALL of the short stories, which have been carefully collected and formatted for your... -
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![Last Will by Ron Schwab]()
Last Will by Ron Schwab
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the dead body of one of lawyer Ian Locke’s wealthy clients is discovered in a place most unbefitting for a man of his station, it is just one piece of a complicated legacy that Ian must unravel...Categorized as:
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![The Meadow by James Galvin]()
The Meadow by James Galvin
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn American Library Association Notable BookIn discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and the few people who do not possess but are themselves possessed by this terrain... -
![Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]()
Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village... -
![The Neighbors by Ahmad Mahmoud]()
The Neighbors by Ahmad Mahmoud
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAhmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s...Categorized as:
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![Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe]()
Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"This is book club fiction at its finest!" —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes her highly anticipated Where the Rivers Merge, the first of two epic and triumphant novels celebrating one intrepid woman's life across multiple generations in the American South... -
![The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck]()
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuriesIn twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations...Categorized as:
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![Success by Lion Feuchtwanger]()
Success by Lion Feuchtwanger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn enthralling roman à clé depicting the rise of Nazi ideology in Germany. Martin Krüger, a museum director in Munich, has become quite unpopular and some people would like to be rid of him. Consequently, the lawsuit against him does not turn out to his favor. However, his friends keep fighting to prove his innocence. "The novel Success is more than a 'documentation of Bavaria... -
![Deputy's Righteous Trail (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm]()
Deputy's Righteous Trail (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA town under the rule of outlaws. A woman in danger. A deputy turns hero.“Colbert, I can fight. I won’t be in your way. And you’ll watch my back,” Thelma O’Malley was serious.“Fine,” Deputy Colbert said. “I think Randell Caricker has your sister. And it seems like Caricker was keeping another woman captive... -
![Trails Of the Heart Boxset: Oregon Trail Romance books 1-3 by Rachel Wesson]()
Trails Of the Heart Boxset: Oregon Trail Romance books 1-3 by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree books in one, based on true diaries from Oregon Trail pioneers Oregon Bound 1852 Illinois, Eva Thompson has her future mapped out. Marriage to David Clarke and a family is all she wants. Her Pa has other ideas. He insists on taking the Oregon Trail to a better life and favors Harold Chapman as Eva’s suitor. Marriage to Harold will provide Eva with everything she needs except ...Categorized as:
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![Sworn to Vengeance (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm]()
Sworn to Vengeance (Western Frontier Justice) by Jesse Storm
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLosing a mother is not easy. Finding out she had been murdered is devastating.Fern Welles, a sheriff in Nebraska, receives word that his mother had passed suddenly. He rushes back home to Colorado Territory, and what he finds there is beyond his wildest nightmares.His mother had not simply passed. She had been murdered. In cold blood.The sheriff is sworn to vengeance... -
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![Listen to my Heartbeat: A College Romance Novel by Prajnaa, Prajna G.S.]()
Listen to my Heartbeat: A College Romance Novel by Prajnaa, Prajna G.S.
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA story of five friends...Aryan, youngest son of a billionaire, a perfect blend of stunning looks, a sharp brain and immense wealth who draws the attention of everyone in his college despite his cold and arrogant temperament.Trisha, a hard working girl from a far humbler background whose entire world revolves around her mother.Rohan, descendant of a royal bloodline who sees a ghost from his past...Categorized as:
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![Montana Hearts by Linda Bridey]()
Montana Hearts by Linda Bridey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCheyenne brave, Wild Wind, discovers that Roxie Ryder has been harboring feelings for him for a long time... -
![North Woods by Daniel Mason]()
North Woods by Daniel Mason
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier...Categorized as:
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![Шибил by Yordan Yovkov]()
Шибил by Yordan Yovkov
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Pregnant Mail Order Bride and her Brave Sheriff by Florence Linnington]()
Pregnant Mail Order Bride and her Brave Sheriff by Florence Linnington
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeaving an abusive husband is hard, but loving a new partner is harder… Daughter of a woman of the Iroquois tribe and a white settler from New York, Kateri Hodges finds herself drowning in the debts of her abusive husband after he dies. She feels like a broken woman. What decent man would want her? Christopher Fellows is the new sheriff in town... -
![Collected Stories by Wallace Stegner]()
Collected Stories by Wallace Stegner
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers... -
![The Trench by عبد الرحمن منيف]()
The Trench by عبد الرحمن منيف
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMunif sets this second volume of his critically acclaimed Cities of Salt trilogy in a Middle Eastern kingdom during the 1950s... -
![Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings...Categorized as:
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![Selected Poems: Robert Frost by Robert Frost]()
Selected Poems: Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe book contains 40 poems covering the entire span of Frost's career and drawn from nine collections. There are detailed notes to aid student comprehension and in addition an Approaches section looks at Frost's life, Imagery and Themes, and the poet's voices...Categorized as:
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![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
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![Outback Moonlight by Annie Seaton]()
Outback Moonlight by Annie Seaton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJacinta Mason, kindergarten teacher at Augathella school, is horrified when she attends the hen’s night at the local pub for Sophie Cartwright, her future sister-in-law. Disillusioned by a failed romance when she was at university, Jacinta is content with her life in her hometown. Meeting Ryder Francesco again leaves her reeling... -
![Daughter of the King by Kerry Chaput]()
Daughter of the King by Kerry Chaput
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLa Rochelle France, 1661. Fierce Protestant Isabelle is desperate to escape persecution by the Catholic King. Isabelle is tortured and harassed, her people forced to convert to the religion that rules the land. She risks her life by helping her fellow Protestants, which is forbidden by the powers of France...Categorized as:
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![Mandariinit I by Simone de Beauvoir]()
Mandariinit I by Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. Drawing on those surrounding her---Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler---and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time... -
![Twice a Texas Bride by Linda Broday]()
Twice a Texas Bride by Linda Broday
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCallie leaned into him, borrowing his strength. "I'm so tired of being scared, Rand.""Running away won't change that. Trust me with your secrets. There's no reason to hold back any longer."She knew he was right. It was time to come clean."Start with your name," he said. Left with emotional scars from his time in an orphanage, Rand Sinclair has vowed never to marry...Categorized as:
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![How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden]()
How Long Has This Been Going On? by Ethan Mordden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow Long Has This Been Going On? brings together a rich and varied cast of characters to tell the tale of modern gay America in this remarkable epic novel. Beginning in 1949 and moving to the present day, Mordden puts a unique and innovating spin on modern history. An adventurous, adroit, and fascinating novel by one of the finest gay writers of our time... -
![The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham]()
The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of six stories—including the acclaimed “The Outstation”—by the renowned twentieth-century author of the classic Of Human Bondage. Set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s, these stories portray the lives of the English living abroad and the clashes that occur with the native Malaysians—and among themselves...Categorized as:
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![Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes]()
Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
![The Trees by Conrad Richter]()
The Trees by Conrad Richter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight...Categorized as:
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![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent]()
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLost Nation opens with a man known only as Blood guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country high in New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream - a land where the luckless or outlawed have made a fresh start. Blood is a man of contradictions, of learning and wisdom, but also a man with a secret past that has scorched his soul... -
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![Sudden Storms by Marcia Lynn McClure]()
Sudden Storms by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRivers Brighton was a wanderer—having nothing and belonging to no one. Still, by chance, Rivers found herself harboring for a time beneath the roof of the kind-hearted Jolee Gray, and her remarkably attractive, yet ever grumbling brother, Paxton. Jolee, had taken Rivers in, and Rivers had stayed...Categorized as:
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![The Four Books by Yan Lianke]()
The Four Books by Yan Lianke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the Franz Kafka Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Kiss, a “stupendous and unforgettable” novel of Mao’s China (The Times, London). In the ninety-ninth district of a re-education compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies...Categorized as:
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![Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai]()
Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ."Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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![Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best]()
Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs featured on The Glenn Beck Show . Tempest at Dawn is on the Glenn Beck Reading List. The United States is on the brink of total collapse. The military has been reduced to near extinction, economic turmoil saps hope, and anarchy threatens as world powers hover like vultures, eager to devour the remains... -
![Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen]()
Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S...Categorized as:
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![Without a Glimmer of Remorse by Pino Cacucci]()
Without a Glimmer of Remorse by Pino Cacucci
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA fascinating dramatized fiction of the life and times of Jules Bonnot, his ‘gang’, and associates, the individualist anarchists of the time, including the young Victor Serge... -
![Angelfire by Linda Lael Miller]()
Angelfire by Linda Lael Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShocked by the threat of an arranged marriage to an aging magistrate, Bliss Stafford fled through the rugged New Zealand countryside. But chance -- and the barrel of her father's pistol -- wed her to Jamie McKenna, a handsome, headstrong rancher whose bold touch flamed her innocent senses...In his embrace she discovered the wonder of desire, and the passionate man who would be her destiny...Categorized as:
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![Trask by Don Berry]()
Trask by Don Berry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first book, considered one of the finest historical novels of the American West...Categorized as:
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![人面桃花 (江南三部曲) / Ren mian tao hua [Peach Blossom Beauty] by Ge Fei, 格非]()
人面桃花 (江南三部曲) / Ren mian tao hua [Peach Blossom Beauty] by Ge Fei, 格非
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeach Blossom Beauty won the 9th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2015. This is the first of the "Face and Peach Blossom" trilogy. It is about a legend life of a village girl called Xiu Mi. It is an immediate hit after publishment. It combines the modern spirits with the traditional culture...Categorized as:
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![Outback Station by Aaron Fletcher]()
Outback Station by Aaron Fletcher
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Convict: David Kerrick is a man with nothing left to lose. Betrayed by the woman he adores, deported to Australia for murdering her lover, he has lost the will to live until the lure of the outback claims his soul. Captivated by the sweeping wild beauty of the land, its freedom and mystery, he sets out to make a piece of it his own...Categorized as:
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![Finch's Fortune by Mazo de la Roche]()
Finch's Fortune by Mazo de la Roche
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Finch's Fortune, Finch Whiteoak celebrates his twenty-first birthday and comes into his inheritance from Grandmother Adeline. He generously takes his elderly uncles to England and lives for a time with his Aunt Augusta. While in England, Finch falls in and out of love with his cousin Sarah Court... -
![Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo]()
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Classics) by César Vallejo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's workCesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism...Categorized as:
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![Clear by Carys Davies]()
Clear by Carys Davies
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote island off of Scotland to “clear” the last remaining inhabitant, who has no intention of leaving—an unforgettable tale of resilience, change, and hope...Categorized as:
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![The Players by Minette Walters]()
The Players by Minette Walters
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping tale of compassion, imposture, trickery and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of The Bloody Assizes, from the bestselling author of The Last Hours and The Swift and the Harrier.The much-anticipated sequel to The Swift and The HarrierEngland, 1685...Categorized as:
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![Collected Stories by Willa Cather]()
Collected Stories by Willa Cather
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death...Categorized as:
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![Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey]()
Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohn Vogelin ranches the land adjoining White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. When the Air Force tries to extend its holdings, Vogelin refuses to budge. Aided only by his 12-year-old grandson, Vogelin shows what one determined individual can do in the face of overwhelming legal and military power...
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