Madeleine is Sleeping By Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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Title	:	Madeleine is Sleeping
Author	:	Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
ISBN	:	0156032279
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	276

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When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband s viol And in their midst travels When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm o...

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The Island of Eternal Love By Daina Chaviano

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Title	:	The Island of Eternal Love
Author	:	Daina Chaviano
ISBN	:	1594489920
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	318

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An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families from Africa, Spain, and China and their bond to one another and the island they call home.Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her Life in Miami evokes memories of Cuba a scent in the breeze like the sea at the Malec n the beat of a clave recalls island evenings when couples danced to forgotten rhythms Far from h An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families from Africa, Spain, and China and their bond to one another and the island they cal...

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Weathering By Lucy Wood

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Title	:	Weathering
Author	:	Lucy Wood
ISBN	:	1408840936
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320

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An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found herePearl doesn t know how she s ended up in the river the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain soaked valley she d been stuck in for years Or why, for that matter, she d been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs.Ada, Pearl s daughter, doesn t know how she s ended up back in the house she left An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found herePearl doesn t know how she s ended up in the river the same mes...

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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours By Helen Oyeyemi

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Title	:	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Author	:	Helen Oyeyemi
ISBN	:	1594634637
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	325

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The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret Oyeyemi s keys not only unlock elements of her characters lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side In Books and Roses one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers fates In Is Your Blood as Red as This an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppetee The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret Oyeyemi s keys not only unlock elements of her characters lives, they promise furth...

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The Gilly Salt Sisters By Tiffany Baker

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Title	:	The Gilly Salt Sisters
Author	:	Tiffany Baker
ISBN	:	0446194239
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	370

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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family s salt farm, while Claire is The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic tinged tale of dreams, family secr...

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Wizard of the Crow By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Title	:	Wizard of the Crow
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
ISBN	:	037542248X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	768

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From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.In exile now for than twenty years, Ng g wa Thiong o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attenti From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a land...

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Memoir from Antproof Case By Mark Helprin

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Title	:	Memoir from Antproof Case
Author	:	Mark Helprin
ISBN	:	0380727331
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	528

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An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman young enough to be his daughter and has a little son whom he loves He sits in a mountain garden in Niter i, overlooking the ocean.As he reminisces and writes, placing the pages carefully in his antproof case, we learn that he was a World War II ace An old American who lives in Brazil is writing his memoirs An English teacher at the naval academy, he is married to a woman y...

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The Third Angel By Alice Hoffman

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Title	:	The Third Angel
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	:	0307393852
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	288

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Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer Jodi PicoultAlice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People maga Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer Jodi PicoultAlice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers <...

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller By Italo Calvino

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Title	:	If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Author	:	Italo Calvino
ISBN	:	0099430894
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	260

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Italo Calvino s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book s central character Based on a witty analogy between the reader s desire to finish the story and the lover s desire to consummate his or her passion, If On A Winter s Night A Traveller is the tale of two bemused Italo Calvino s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which th...

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Wizard of the Crow By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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Title	:	Wizard of the Crow
Author	:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
ISBN	:	1400033845
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	784

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In exile now for than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong o has become one of the most widely read African writers Commencing in our times and set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburirian peopl In exile now for than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong o has become one of the most widely read Afri...

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Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami

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Title	:	Kafka on the Shore
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	:	5551416399
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	448

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Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo His work has been translated into thirty four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe From the Hardcover edition....

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The Careful Undressing of Love By Corey Ann Haydu

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Title	:	The Careful Undressing of Love
Author	:	Corey Ann Haydu
ISBN	:	0399186735
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	288

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Everyone who really knows Brooklyn knows Devonairre Street girls are different They re the ones you shouldn t fall in love with The ones with the curse The ones who can get you killed.Lorna Ryder is a Devonairre Street girl, and for years, paying lip service to the curse has been the small price of living in a neighborhood full of memories of her father, one of the thou Everyone who really knows Brooklyn knows Devonairre Street girls are different They re the ones you shouldn t fall in love with...

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle By Haruki Murakami

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Title	:	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
ISBN	:	0679775439
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	607

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Japan s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fictional writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife s missing cat Soon he finds Japan s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fictional writers with this heroically imaginati...

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Mockingbird By Sean Stewart

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Title	:	Mockingbird
Author	:	Sean Stewart
ISBN	:	1931520097
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards, and now that she s dead, her daughters Toni and Candy have a debt to pay Set in modern day Houston, Texas, this is a funny and moving novel of voodoo, pregnancy, and family ties While Toni sorts out the mess that Elena left behind, she must also come to terms with her childhood and with the supernatural a Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards, and now that she s dead, her daughters Toni and Candy have ...

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