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Hardcover:

9781451674637 | Scribner, October 9, 2012, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781451674651 | Reprint edition (Scribner, March 12, 2013), cover price $19.99

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Product Description: This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmthThis extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph with intelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape...read more

Hardcover:

9780670026487 | Viking Pr, April 18, 2013, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780143125396 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 25, 2014), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmthThis extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing portrait of a people who triumph with intelligence and humor over the oppressions of political dictators and an unforgiving landscape.

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In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.   Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

Hardcover:

9780544149229 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 29, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781480539921 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 29, 2013), cover price $19.99
9781480544307 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 29, 2013), cover price $14.99

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A COUNTRY DIVIDED BY REVOLUTION A PEOPLE UNITED BY LOVE Neda is born in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before the arms of a guard appear at the cell door one day and, simply, take her away. In another part of the city, three-year-old Omid witnesses the arrests of his political activist parents from his perch at their kitchen table, yogurt dripping from his fingertips. More than twenty years after the violent, bloody purge that took place inside Tehran’s prisons, Sheida learns that her father was one of those executed, that the silent void firmly planted between her and her mother all these years was not just the sad loss that comes with death, but the anguish and the horror of murder. These are the Children of the Jacaranda Tree. Set in post-revolutionary Iran from 1983 to 2011, this stunning debut novel follows a group of mothers, fathers, children, and lovers, some related by blood, others brought together by the tide of history that washes over their lives. Finally, years later, it is the next generation that is left with the burden of the past and their country’s tenuous future as a new wave of protest and political strife begins. Children of the Jacaranda Tree is an evocative portrait of three generations of men and women inspired by love and poetry, burning with idealism, chasing dreams of justice and freedom. Written in Sahar Delijani’s spellbinding prose, capturing the intimate side of revolution in a country where the weight of history is all around, it is a moving tribute to anyone who has ever answered its call.

Hardcover:

9781476709093 | Atria Books, June 18, 2013, cover price $25.99
9780297869023 | Orion Pub Co, June 6, 2013, cover price $20.60

Paperback:

9781476709109 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, June 17, 2014), cover price $15.00
9781780226927 | Gardners Books, January 9, 2014, cover price $12.45

CD/Spoken Word:

9781469219059 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 18, 2013), cover price $29.99
9781469219066 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 18, 2013), cover price $19.99

Library:

9781611739350 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, November 1, 2013), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: A COUNTRY DIVIDED BY REVOLUTION A PEOPLE UNITED BY LOVE Neda is born in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before the arms of a guard appear at the cell door one day and, simply, take her away.

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Product Description: Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran. Retired, he lives alone and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect...read more

Hardcover:

9780805242959 | Italian edition edition (Schocken Books, May 6, 2014), cover price $25.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781629237404 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, June 24, 2014), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran.

From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and their father bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands, seeking some comfort and peace. But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched and unleashed a series of unexpected events: Odidi and Ajany’s mercurial mother flees in a fit of rage; a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas’ house, seeking his missing father; a hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case; and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge. In scenes stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya back through a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, buried deep within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation. Here is a spellbinding novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to pass, history is written, and war stains us forever.

Hardcover:

9780307961204 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 28, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Paperback:

9780345802545 | Vintage Books, October 7, 2014, cover price $16.95

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By Daniel Hahn (trans)

Paperback:

9781934137826 | Italian edition edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, October 14, 2014), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF 2015WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOKThe author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and critically acclaimed novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize  Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole’s feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community...read more
By Howard Goldblatt (trans)

Hardcover:

9781410479617 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 3, 2015), cover price $30.99
9780525427988 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, January 22, 2015), cover price $27.95
9780241146446 | Gardners Books, November 6, 2014, cover price $28.65

Paperback:

9780143128380 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 19, 2016), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF 2015WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOKThe author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and critically acclaimed novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize  Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole’s feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community.
9780241967324 | Gardners Books, July 2, 2015, cover price $14.80

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611763973 | Penguin/Highbridge, January 22, 2015, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time.

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Hardcover:

9781410465313 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 8, 2014), cover price $34.99
9780374246020 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 7, 2014, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780374535032 | Reprint edition (Sarah Crichton Books, January 6, 2015), cover price $14.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781427233400 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, January 7, 2014), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: At the heart of A Dream of Kings is Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service ("Solutions provided for all problems of life and love"), proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes, passionately loving husband and father, equally ardent lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula, incurable gambler, and incorrigible fighter...read more
By Dan Georgakas (foreword by)

Paperback:

9781611175356 | Updated edition (Univ of South Carolina Pr, March 15, 2015), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: At the heart of A Dream of Kings is Leonidas Matsoukas, operator of the Pindar Counseling Service ("Solutions provided for all problems of life and love"), proponent of wildly creative get-rich-quick schemes, passionately loving husband and father, equally ardent lover of the beautiful bakeshop proprietor Anthoula, incurable gambler, and incorrigible fighter.

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Hardcover:

9780385352819 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 16, 2015, cover price $26.95
9780387912721, titled "The Computer-Based Design Process: With 177 Figures" | Springer Verlag, March 1, 1986, cover price $59.95 | also contains The Computer-Based Design Process: With 177 Figures

Paperback:

9780804171496 | Vintage Books, March 2, 2016, cover price $16.95

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By Joshua Cohen (introduced by), Bohumil Hrabal and James Naughton (trans)

Paperback:

9781590178409 | New York Review of Books, June 30, 2015, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail...read more
By Mary Ann Newman (trans)

Paperback:

9780914671268 | Archipelago Books, November 24, 2015, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into.

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Paperback:

9781566894098 | Italian edition edition (Coffee House Pr, September 15, 2015), cover price $16.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504664585 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2015), cover price $24.95
9781504664578 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2015), cover price $19.95

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By Elizabeth Harris (trans)

Paperback:

9780914671244 | Archipelago Books, November 10, 2015, cover price $18.00

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Hardcover:

9781618731142 | Small Beer Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of How to Be an American Housewife—the poignant story of estranged sisters reunited when a mysterious request from their ailing mother reveals a long-buried family secret.   Rachel and Drew Snow might be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths...read more

Hardcover:

9781410479914 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 17, 2015), cover price $31.99
9780399170805 | Putnam Pub Group, April 7, 2015, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780425279212 | Reprint edition (Putnam Pub Group, March 15, 2016), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of How to Be an American Housewife—the poignant story of estranged sisters reunited when a mysterious request from their ailing mother reveals a long-buried family secret.

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A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America—one man’s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan.“You get in the habit of living a certain kind of life, you keep going in a certain direction, but most of the pressure on you is just momentum. As soon as you stop the momentum goes away. It’s easier than people think to walk out on things, I mean things like cities, leases, relationships and jobs.”Greg Marnier, Marny to his friends, leaves a job he doesn’t much like and moves to Detroit, Michigan in 2009, where an old friend has a big idea about real estate and the revitalization of a once great American city. Once there, he gets involved in a fist-fight between two of his friends, a racially charged trial, an act of vigilante justice, a love affair with a local high school teacher, and a game of three-on-three basketball with the President—not to mention the money-soaked real estate project itself, cut out of 600 acres of emaciated Detroit. Marny’s billionaire buddy from Yale, Robert James, calls his project “the Groupon model for gentrification,” others call it “New Jamestown,” and Marny calls it home— until Robert James asks him to leave. This is the story of what went wrong.You Don’t Have to Live Like This is the breakout novel from the “fabulously real” (Guardian) voice of the only American included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Using the framework of our present reality, Benjamin Markovits blurs the line between the fictional and the fact-based, and captures an invisible current threaded throughout American politics, economics, and society that is waiting to explode.

Paperback:

9780062376619 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, July 5, 2016), cover price $15.99
9780571313402 | Gardners Books, July 2, 2015, cover price $24.70 | About this edition: A frighteningly prescient novel of today’s America—one man’s story of a racially charged real estate experiment in Detroit, Michigan.

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Paperback:

9781941411292 | Sarabande Books, August 9, 2016, cover price $15.95

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Hardcover:

9780316267724 | Mulholland Books, October 18, 2016, cover price $26.00

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Hardcover:

9781612195650 | Melville Pub House, November 8, 2016, cover price $24.95

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