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“emma ruby sachs”

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  • The Water Man's Daughter

    by Emma Ruby-Sachs ...
    An accomplished, hard-hitting debut novel that marries a page-turning plot with the stories of three women, each of whom is struggling with decisions that will change the course of her life.The violent death of a Canadian water company executive in a black township of Johannesburg throws together a South African anti-privatization activist and the water executive's daughter, Claire, who arrives ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Weight of Heaven

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    by Thrity Umrigar ...
    From the bestselling author of THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes an emotionally-charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss.“Powerful. . . . Twisty, brimming with dark humor and keen moral insight, The Weight of Heaven packs a wallop on both a literary and emotional level. . . . Umrigar . . . is a descriptive master.” — ... Read more

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  • The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

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    by Nadia Hashimi ...
    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Blue Beret

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    by Bobbie Ann Mason ...
    Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944.At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in ... Read more

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  • The Oriental Wife

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    by Evelyn Toynton ...
    The Oriental Wife is the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who flee Hitler’s Germany and struggle to put down roots elsewhere. When they meet up again in New York, they fall in love both with each other and with America, believing they have found a permanent refuge. But just when it looks as though nothing can ever touch them again, their lives are shattered by a freakish ... Read more

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  • The Patron Saint Of Liars

    by Ann Patchett ...
    A New York Times Notable BookAcclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as "beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald)St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Garden

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    by Kamala Nair ...
    The Namesake meets The Secret Garden in this enchanting debut novel that is a dark, grown-up fairytale.The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ... Read more

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  • Say You're One of Them

    by Uwem Akpan ...
    An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book ( Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs ... Read more

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    by Anuradha Roy ...
    “This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an award-winning writer who richly deserves her international acclaim.On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a ... Read more

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  • The Shoemaker's Wife

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    by Adriana Trigiani ...
    "…an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers...but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family…Trigiani is a master of palpable and visual detail." — Washington PostBeloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking epic romance and multigenerational love story that spans two ... Read more

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  • As Long as the Rivers Flow

    by James Bartleman ...
    From the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit for every Canadian.The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; ... Read more

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