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Letters from Afghanistan

by Eloise Hanner

Published: 2003-02-19

Paperback: 176 pages

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In 1971, no one had heard of Afghanistan, and no one cared. The Russians hadn’t yet invaded, and the Talibans didn’t exist. Eloise Hanner takes us back to a simpler time and shares with us her story as a young teacher, living in Afghanistan as an American Peace Corps volunteer. In a tearful good-bye,...

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After Her: A Novel

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2014-04-22

Paperback: 336 pages

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Marin County, California, summer, 1979. When young women start turning up dead on the mountain behind the home of Rachel and her devoted eleven-year-old sister, Patty, their father—a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective—is put in charge of find...

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Feather for Hoonah Joe: Alaska Can Be a Very Small Place

by Marianne Schlegelmilch

Published: 2014-05-05

Kindle Edition: 186 pages

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Sal Kindle has been sprinkling the pages of the feather series with so much homespun grit, that it's hard to imagine that an octogenarian can really develop any more facets to her earthy personality. Her husband, Joe Michael, doesn't think so either, which makes life all the more interesti...

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Geriatricks 1: a) Maddie's UXB b) Tobias's Cattle c) Henry's Brolly d) Rotary Rendezvous (a poem)

by Derek G Mynard

Published: 2013-12-02

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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Old Folk? Old folk, wearing tartan slippers, trammelled into the backwater of a comfy armchair in front of the tele? “Sit down GrandMa, I’ll get you a nice cup of cocoa”. Oh yes, this is the lot of many geriatrics these days. When these out-of-sight ‘oldies’ do grope for a cane t...

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Oleander Girl: A Novel

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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A sweeping, suspenseful coming-of-age tale from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the beloved bestselling author hailed by Abraham Verghese as a “gifted storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart.”Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has ...

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Redeployment

by Phil Klay

Published: 2014-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction · Winner of the John Leonard First Book Prize · Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book World, Amazon, and more · National Book Foundation 5 Unde...

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Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction

by Teju Cole

Published: 2014-03-25

Hardcover: 176 pages

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For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, Every Day Is for the Thief is a wholly original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City, was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and ...

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The Boat: Stories

by Nam Le

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human — and herald the arrival of a ...

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Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me: Living with the Armenian legacy of loss and silence

by Douglas Kalajian

Published: 2014-04-16

Paperback: 258 pages

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Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me recounts author Douglas Kalajian’s lifelong attempts to overcome his father’s reluctance to speak about his life as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. In piecing together the scattered bits his father reluctantly shared, Kalajian reflects on how his father’s...

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Living Life Backwards

by Peter Wells

Published: 2014-02-19

Paperback: 188 pages

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Having spent his childhood in a barren emotional wasteland overseen by a father who valued order above feeling, Bill finally meets a woman who leads him to a place he can call home. Arriving in the small coastal town in England with his new wife, he finds that he is quickly assimilated into her community...