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The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and ...

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Cage's Bend

by Carter Coleman

Published: 2006-01-26

Paperback: 416 pages

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Cage, Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boystar athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son; and Harper, 10 years younger, chases...

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The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia: A Novel

by Mary Helen Stefaniak

Published: 2011-09-19

Paperback: 342 pages

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“A delightful story. . . . Once you enter its pages and the worlds therein, it’s hard to leave.”—Carol Bicak, Omaha World HeraldNarrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a worldly schoolteacher turns the small town of Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spive...

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The Caine Mutiny: a Novel of World War II

by Herman Wouk

Published: 1951

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The Caine Mutiny: A Novel

by Herman Wouk

Published: 1992-04-15

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The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951,...

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Cain's Version

by Frank Durham

Published: 2008-10-15

Paperback: 300 pages

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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (Everyman's Library)

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 2001-10-16

Hardcover: 1368 pages

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 Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize—winning writer’s masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain’s occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth ce...

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Cakewalk: A Memoir

by Kate Moses

Published: 2010-05-11

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy?and crumby?childhood.Growing up in the 1960s and ?70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken, Baby Ruth ...

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Caleb Williams (Penguin Classics)

by William Godwin

Published: 2005-08-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a secret. As he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the horrible truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when?even thoug...

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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 318 pages

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A New York Times bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorBethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets...