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9781609453060 | Italian edition edition (Europa Editions Inc, February 16, 2016), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, French-Iranian author Fariba Hachtroudi's English-language debut explores themes as old as time: the crushing effects of totalitarianism and the infinite power of love.
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9781597804974, titled "Cataveiro: How One Little Dog Brought Us Hope, Happiness & Closure" | Nightshade Book, July 1, 2014, cover price $26.99
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9781250007629 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, July 3, 2012), cover price $19.00
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9780307743824 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 12, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?
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9780385534734 | Doubleday, August 9, 2011, cover price $22.95
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9780805093957 | Metropolitan Books, June 21, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A stunning first novel, set during the violent 1947 partition of India, about uprooted children and their journeys to safetyAs India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.
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9781590513194 | 1 edition (Other Pr Llc, May 5, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Selected as one of Oprah.
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9781590514573 | Other Pr Llc, May 3, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Selected as one of Oprah.
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9780810116412 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Winner, 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany.
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9780810127067 | Northwestern Univ Pr, January 1, 2010, cover price $18.95 | also contains Traveling on One Leg | About this edition: Winner, 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature  Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany.
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9781933353173 | Twilight Times Books, December 31, 2008, cover price $16.95
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9781846551550 | Vintage Uk, June 5, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9780747590910 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, June 2, 2008, cover price $25.15
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9781564784179 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Hobson's Island (so called because Mr.
Product Description: In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid...read more
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9781417697649 | Turtleback Books, September 9, 2005, cover price $24.60 | About this edition: In her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans.
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9780802170149 | Black Cat, September 9, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Raised in a wealthy family in the Sudan, Najwa never imagined that a journey that began at Khartoum university would wind its way to London, where, in her late thirties, she finds herself working as a maid and dreaming about all she has lost.
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9781573222655 | Riverhead Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Returning to Mogadishu, Somalia, from New York after a twenty-year exile, Jeebleh finds a troubled and devastated city ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by violent gangs of thugs.
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9780143034841 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 29, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Returning to Mogadishu, Somalia, from New York after a twenty-year exile, Jeebleh finds a troubled and devastated city ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by violent gangs of thugs, as he works to settle his late mother's outstanding accounts and aids an old friend whose youngest child has been abducted.
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9780767917513 | Broadway Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Comfortable in her twenty-year marriage to Carl, with a teenage daughter, Marisa, Reba Freeman is stunned when she discovers that her first husband, Joseph Thomas, a Liberian, is about to go on trial by the World Court for crimes against humanity.
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9780525945062 | E P Dutton, April 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester
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9780807083710 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, June 15, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester.
9780452280991 | Reissue edition (Plume, June 1, 2000), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester.
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9781555176990 | Bonneville Books, August 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Great Terror of the late 1930s is raging in the Soviet Union, and Misha Kostrin lives in constant fear and spiritual emptiness.
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9781564782939 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland.
9780679767169 | Vintage Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about her missing lover
9789507424892 | Reissue edition (Planeta Pub Corp, September 1, 1995), cover price $12.95
9780679763338 | Reprint edition (Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about her missing lover
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9781410719157 | Authorhouse, May 1, 2003, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Book by Amouzou, Kofi
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9780786248049 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: During Russia's political upheaveal in 1917, Madame and her ballet troupe must remain in Puerto Rico, while Masha watches Madame fall in love with a local revolutionary, forcing her to choose between her love for a man and for dance.
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9780375713859 | Vintage Espanol, October 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: During Russia's political upheaveal in 1917, Madame and her ballet troupe must remain in Puerto Rico, while Masha watches Madame fall in love with a local revolutionary, forcing her to choose between her love for a man and for dance.
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9780374156480 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: During Russia's political upheaval of 1917, Madame and her ballet troupe must remain in Puerto Rico, during which time Misha watches as Madame falls in love with a local revolutionary, forcing her to choose between her love for a man and for her dance.
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9780452283312 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: During Russia's political upheaval of 1917, Madame and her ballet troupe must remain in Puerto Rico, during which time her devotee Masha watches as Madame falls in love with a local revolutionary, forcing her to choose between her love for a man and for her dance.
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9781885288073 | Prep Pub, February 1, 1999, cover price $18.00
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9780393037388 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A community of Vietnamese immigrants in Galveston, Texas, struggles to maintain a balance between the worlds of the past and present
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9780820318813 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This powerful narrative, winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel, focuses on Galveston, Texas, and a community of newly arrived Vietnamese.
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9780374182182 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals his detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about her missing lover
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