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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to You by Chance tells the story of one young man and the family who loves him. Being the opera of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges--a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation from university. As first son, he has responsibilities, too. But time…
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- 9780753826973
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- 345p; bw; pbk
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- 823.92 NWA i
Recipe For Life
Inviting, sun-drenched writing in the vein of Adrianna Trigianni or Joanne Harris A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends, and a little food—but life is rarely straightforward. Alice wants to make the most of life—after all, she knows how fragile it can be—and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime…
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- 9780752884394
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- 340p; bw; pbk
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- 823.92 PEL r
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his familyâ…
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- 9781400033423
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- 337p; bw; pbk
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- 823 MOR s
Unaccustomed Earth
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight lumius stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.
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- 9780747596592
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- 352 p. ; 20 cm.
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- 823 LAH u
Ceremony
Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resoluti…
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- 9780143104919
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- 243p; bw; pbk
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- 823 SIL c
Sula
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent. Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.…
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- 9781400033430
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- 174p; bw; pbk
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- 823 MOR s
The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime." Khaled Hosseini's #1 New York Times Bestselling Debut Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashums. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Am…
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- 9781594632204
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- 401p; bw; pbk
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- 823 HOS k
Lifegame
When Fella and his best friend Grebe manage to escape from the sinister island on which they grew up, they just want to start afresh. But Fella took something with him - the diary, hidden all his life, that was brought with him to Orphanage 206. When they discover what it contains, he and Grebe can't stop searching for more clues about where he came from.
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- 9780192728432
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- 339p; bw; pbk
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- 823.92 ALL l
Between Two Worlds
Sarah Winnemucca is the granddaughter of a great Pauiute Indian chief who believes in learning the ways of the white people and making peace with them.
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- 0590457551
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- 184p; bw; pbk
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- Apple Paperbacks
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- 823 RAN B
A Woman Of Bangkok
Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, A Woman of Bangkok was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature s long line of b…
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- 9789810854300
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- 328p; bw; pbk
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- 823.91 REY w
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