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The Translation of the Bones: A Novel

by Francesca Kay

Published: 2012-01-03

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Mary-Margaret O'Reilly is seemingly a harmless enough young woman, ready and willing to help out Father Diamond in the Sacred Heart church in Battersea. She may not be very bright, and she is sadly overweight, but she can certainly clean. She is also very good with children, and helps out ...

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The Translator

by Leila Aboulela

Published: 2006-09-28

Paperback: 203 pages

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Sammar is a young Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator in a university department. Numb with grief after losing her husband, and estranged from her young son, she is adrift -an exile in a hostile country. Things change when she falls in love with Rae -but, twice divorced and a self-proclaimed...

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The Translator: A Memoir

by Daoud Hari

Published: 2009-01-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world, an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories o...

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The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur

by Daoud Hari

Published: 2008-03-18

Hardcover: 224 pages

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I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me.The young life of Daoud Hari?his friends call him David?has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. He is a living witn...

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Transmission

by Hari Kunzru

Published: 2005-01-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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In Transmission, award-winning writer Hari Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and na�ve, Arjun spends his days as a lowly assistan...

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Transparency: Stories

by Frances Hwang

Published: 2007-04-18

Paperback: 240 pages

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With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants--struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or ...

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Trapeze

by Simon Mawer

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of New York Times best seller The Glass Room.Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the at...

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Trapped

by Judy Spurr

Published: 2007-10-26

Paperback: 80 pages

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Twelve-year-old Jamie Parker is trapped in all sorts of ways. His father is in danger of losing his lobster business and middle school is starting, which means Jamie will now be stuck in his reading classes again. Not only is reading hard for him, but he has to contend with Ray Quinn, a bully who has...

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TRAPPED

by Lori L. Stephens, Robert S. Nahas

Published: 2009-02-18

Paperback: 332 pages

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A true story of great inspiration. The life of a woman who was abandoned my her mother at age 14 and raped. This was just the beginning. She endured 30 years of physical abuse, drug addiction of methamphetamines and alcohol, and going in and out of jail. But Lori L. Stephens decided change the way things...

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Trapped

by Michael Northrop

Published: 2012-12-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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A chilling YA thriller from critically acclaimed author Michael Northrop.The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . .Scotty and his friends ...