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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

by Gaston Dorren

Published: 2018-12-04

Hardcover: 320 pages

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English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it?only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out t...

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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Published: 2019-08-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour“A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that ...

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The Price of Time

by Tim Tigner

Published: 2019-05-01

Paperback: 334 pages

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Would your character change ... if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller. _______________________________________ There’s a secret in...

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At Home with the Templetons: A Novel

by Monica McInerney

Published: 2011-03-29

Kindle Edition: 498 pages

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When the Templeton family takes up residence in an imposing and long-empty manor in the countryside of Victoria, Australia, the locals begin to buzz with gossip. The seven Templetons moved from England and seem unusual, peculiar even—especially when they begin to lead tours through the s...

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What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney

Published: 2018-12-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller, traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us. Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider ...

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Forty Thieves

by Thomas Perry

Published: 2017-01-10

Paperback: 368 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry comes a whip-smart and lethally paced standalone novel, Forty Thieves.Sid and Ronnie Abel are a husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly ...

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Come West and See: Stories

by Maxim Loskutoff

Published: 2018-05-08

Hardcover: 240 pages

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This searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement.In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdr...

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A Bride for Donnigan (Women of the West #7)

by Janette Oke

Published: 1993-03-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Donnigan, who dreams of having a wife and helpmate, lives on the western frontier, while Kathleen, who yearns for adventure, lives thousands of miles away, but their love develops through letters. Original.

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Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands

by Hazel V. Carby

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Imperial Intimacies weaves the history of British imperialism together with the history of her family. Carby assembles a sprawling account of how imperialism—a web of social relations, labor markets, and trade networks—conditions private feeling. The resulting narrative is something l...

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseni

Published: 2013

Paperback: 419 pages

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A Thousand Splendid Suns' is a contemporary novel that tells a gripping story of two women with contradictory attitudes and how their decisions shape future generations. A marvelous work of fiction which brings an untold side of Afghanistan in limelight, this novel is irresistible. Khalid Hosseini has...