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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
Author
Publisher
Rervoir Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
La historia de amor furtivo de Nadia y Said tiene lugar en una ciudad llena de puntos de control y bombas. Es un laberinto humano donde, al empezar la guerra civil, surgen extrąas habladur̕as: ±rumores sobre puertas que pod̕an llevarlo a uno a otro lugar, concretamente a lugares remotos, alejados de aquella trampa mortal de pa̕s». En una historia ̌pica de tremenda actualidad, esta ins̤lita pareja de amantes huir̀ para recalar primero en Mikonos...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society...
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Pub. Date
2012
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
7) West Coast
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Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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For Temper Chey, the West Coast is a prison and she's dying to be freed. Her part of South Central Los Angeles is an area where tourism is obsolete and gang banging and dope slanging reign supreme. After a brief escapade with one of the most infamous Crip kingpins force her to twist, toss, and burn her exit plans? Or will the chaos be the spark that provides a ride to freedom? -- adapted from back cover
Perhaps Temper's longing to escape [from the...
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Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
c2021
Language
English
Description
"All hail to the West Coast, where its natural resources of breathtaking beaches, smokable trees, and beautiful women are unlimited. From the freezing top of Mt. Denali in Alaska to the fly-ass architectural marvel of California?s Golden Gate Bridge, the region is one of the most desirable places to visit on Earth. But for a problematic girl like Temper Chey, it?s a prison, and she?s dying to be freed. Perhaps Temper?s longing to escape is a result...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"What starts out as a fake wedding date turns into something these childhood enemies never expected in The Plus One, a sparkling romantic comedy by Mazey Eddings. She's not looking to fix him. She's looking to love him, if he'll let her in. Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they...
11) Via negativa
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by the church for eccentricity and insubordination, he's tried to transform his exile into a kind of pilgrimage, to make his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. But even this master of self-denial - and straight-up denial - knows when he's lying to himself: "I am a retired priest living out of his car. I am a retired priest, kicked out of his rectory and living in his car with a coyote and a bucket he shits in."...
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of movies such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Beverly Hills...
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world. The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen...
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