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Product Description: Named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Books of 2016"Named one of The Guardian's "Best Books of 2016"Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America's most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and the dramatic consequences of love...read more

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9781609453640 | Europa Editions Inc, September 13, 2016, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Books of 2016"Named one of The Guardian's "Best Books of 2016"Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America's most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and the dramatic consequences of love.

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Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book In the aftermath of Charles Taylor’s fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini. She lives in a cave accessible only at low tide. During the day, she offers massages to tourists, battling her hunger one or two euros at a time...read more

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9780307962577 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 30, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Notable BookA hypnotic, spellbinding novel set in Greece and Africa, where a young Liberian woman reckons with a haunted past.

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9780345803863 | Vintage Books, June 3, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A New York Times Notable Book In the aftermath of Charles Taylor’s fallen regime, a young Liberian woman named Jacqueline has fled to the Aegean island of Santorini.

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Product Description: En una isla turistica en algun lugar del mar Egeo, Jacqueline, una joven liberiana, intenta sobrevivir, lo que se reduce a no morir de hambre y procurar seguir adelante despues de haber conseguido escapar al horror del regimen de Charles Taylor...read more

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9788499186214 | Roca Editorial, November 30, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: En una isla turistica en algun lugar del mar Egeo, Jacqueline, una joven liberiana, intenta sobrevivir, lo que se reduce a no morir de hambre y procurar seguir adelante despues de haber conseguido escapar al horror del regimen de Charles Taylor.

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Product Description: William Silver es un profesor carismatico y con talento. Sus metodos poco convencionales hace que levante ampollas entre colegas y superiores, pero sus estudiantes lo adoran. Lleva Ideas a su aula, ideas que afectaran profundamente como los alumnos se conducen en la vida...read more

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9788493864446 | Italian edition edition (Roca Editorial, June 1, 2012), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: William Silver es un profesor carismatico y con talento.

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Product Description: William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors. His students, however, are devoted to him. His teaching of Camus, Faulkner, Sartre, Keats, and other kindred souls breathes life into their sense of social justice and their capacities for philosophical and ethical thought...read more
By Cassandra Campbell (narrator), Alexander Maksik, Dan John Miller (narrator) and Adam Verner (narrator)

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9781452635477 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 19, 2011), cover price $71.99 | About this edition: William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors.

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Product Description: William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors. His students, however, are devoted to him. His teaching of Camus, Faulkner, Sartre, Keats, and other kindred souls breathes life into their sense of social justice and their capacities for philosophical and ethical thought...read more
By Cassandra Campbell (narrator), Alexander Maksik, Dan John Miller (narrator) and Adam Verner (narrator)

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9781452655475 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, December 19, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors.

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Product Description: Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy families, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality. William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and superiors...read more

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9781609450489, titled "You Deserve Nothing: A Novel" | 1 edition (Europa Editions Inc, August 30, 2011), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Set in Paris, at an international high school catering to the sons and daughters of wealthy families, You Deserve Nothing is a gripping story of power, idealism, and morality.

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The Complete Residents' Guide

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9789948033837 | 1 edition (Explorer Pub, May 1, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Complete Residents' Guide

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