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The Eleventh Hour
by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work-India, England, and America-and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
An alcoholic, addict and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Black Butterflies
by Priscilla Morris
A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s-a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art.
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The Burning Earth: A History
by Sunil Amrith
Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, Amrith's account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. So too does this book reveal the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm. The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth.
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Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
With Ireland caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack, as the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, must decide how far she'll go to save her family and what—or who—she is willing to leave behind.
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The Postcard
by Anne Berest
Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her maternal great-grandparents and their children—all killed at Auschwitz—Anne Berest is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of the Rabinovitch family.
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Built From the Fire: the Epic Story...
by Victor Luckerson
Focusing on one family's experiences, this history of Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as the “Black Wall Street” traces its origins, the 1921 race massacre that decimated the area and its eventual urban renewal and gentrification.
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Faith : a Journey For All
by Jimmy Carter
Explores the meaning of faith and its profound effects on people's lives and the world, as well as how the author's own religious faith has guided, sustained, and challenged him throughout his life.
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The House On Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
Told in a series of vignettes stunning from their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros' acclaimed novel of a young girl growing up in a mixed neighborhood of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this coming-of-age classic tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. But she doesn't want to belong -- not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
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