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Silence Like Blood
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5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2020
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"My Dear Claire,If I'm writing to you, it's only out of respect for the promise I made, not, as you asked, to tell you everything I see. For I can only see what is shown. . ."So begins Silence Like Blood, Marie-Célie Agnant's epistolery novella about Mnemosyne, a Haitian expat returning to her birth country. Encountering a suspicious entrepreneur, a prudent village girl, and a mysterious hermit with a tragic past, Mnemosyne reconciles the muted, weary personalities of her f...
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- Book 17 -
- Working Titles
5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2020
EN
"My Dear Claire,If I'm writing to you, it's only out of respect for the promise I made, not, as you asked, to tell you everything I see. For I can only see what is shown. . ."So begins Silence Like Blood, Marie-Célie Agnant's epistolery novella about Mnemosyne, a Haitian expat returning to her birth country. Encountering a suspicious entrepreneur, a prudent village girl, and a mysterious hermit with a tragic past, Mnemosyne reconciles the muted, weary personalities of her f...
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The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630-1730 and Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
2025
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Why did men go a-pirating, or “on the account” as the pirates called it? The sailors said it was few ships and many men, hard work and small pay, long voyages, bad food and cruel commanders. “Hard ships make hard men.” “Many sailed but few returned.” “No kind words on deep water.” “No law off soundings.” “We live hard and die hard and go to Hell afterwards.” These are some of the sea sayings that have come down to us from long ago, and they go to prove that the narrow channel of sailor men...
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2025
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Why did men go a-pirating, or “on the account” as the pirates called it? The sailors said it was few ships and many men, hard work and small pay, long voyages, bad food and cruel commanders. “Hard ships make hard men.” “Many sailed but few returned.” “No kind words on deep water.” “No law off soundings.” “We live hard and die hard and go to Hell afterwards.” These are some of the sea sayings that have come down to us from long ago, and they go to prove that the narrow channel of sailor men...
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Table for One
- Book 12 -
- Working Titles
5 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews
2018
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In contemporary South Korea, the nuclear family has given way to individual urban living. Yun Ko Eun sharply captures the dissonance of solitary life in a culture that prizes community and family. In an effort to navigate this 21st century conundrum, her narrator takes rigorous, highly structured classes to learn to eat alone in public. A sly, deeply sympathetic look at our increasingly isolated social world, "Table for One" transcends geographical boundaries to explore loneliness, communi...
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- Book 12 -
- Working Titles
5 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews
2018
EN
In contemporary South Korea, the nuclear family has given way to individual urban living. Yun Ko Eun sharply captures the dissonance of solitary life in a culture that prizes community and family. In an effort to navigate this 21st century conundrum, her narrator takes rigorous, highly structured classes to learn to eat alone in public. A sly, deeply sympathetic look at our increasingly isolated social world, "Table for One" transcends geographical boundaries to explore loneliness, communi...
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The Bombay Liaison (Is Grateful)
- Book 1 -
- Working Titles
2015
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In three interlocking stories, Dinika Amaral explores the fantasy and frustrations of post-colonial India. Weaving together the experiences of western visitors, the bustle of a contemporary Bombay marketplace, and figures from sacred Hindu texts, Amaral offers a mercurial, dreamlike vision of Bombay in the twenty-first century: ancient, global, chaotic, dazzling.Dinika Amaral was raised in Bombay, India. She has an M.A. and M.F.A from New York University. She has p...
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- Working Titles
2015
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In three interlocking stories, Dinika Amaral explores the fantasy and frustrations of post-colonial India. Weaving together the experiences of western visitors, the bustle of a contemporary Bombay marketplace, and figures from sacred Hindu texts, Amaral offers a mercurial, dreamlike vision of Bombay in the twenty-first century: ancient, global, chaotic, dazzling.Dinika Amaral was raised in Bombay, India. She has an M.A. and M.F.A from New York University. She has p...
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Emergency Exit
- Book 4 -
- Working Titles
2016
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"Emergency Exit" unfolds in the disjointed chronology of the perpetually jet-lagged, skipping over months as easily as airplanes cross time zones. In the slight surreality of this enclosed world, Carissa Halston's stewardesses reveal themselves as dark, complicated, fully realized human beings, capable of rage, apathy, humor, compassion, efficiency. . . even friendship.
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2016
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"Emergency Exit" unfolds in the disjointed chronology of the perpetually jet-lagged, skipping over months as easily as airplanes cross time zones. In the slight surreality of this enclosed world, Carissa Halston's stewardesses reveal themselves as dark, complicated, fully realized human beings, capable of rage, apathy, humor, compassion, efficiency. . . even friendship.
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Just Another Jihadi Jane
- Book 6 -
- Working Titles
3.5 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews
2016
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JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE follows the radicalization of two young girls growing up in a working-class Muslim neighborhood in the UK. Ameena and Jamilla become close followers of a Jihadi matron deeply involved in the Syrian insurrection—serving a cause they believe has been distorted by Western media. The girls slowly realize that their new reality is a narrow, brutal universe apart from the one they had imagined. Tabish Khair's chilling, heart-wrenching tale paints a frightening portrait o...
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3.5 out of 5 stars based on 2 reviews
2016
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JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE follows the radicalization of two young girls growing up in a working-class Muslim neighborhood in the UK. Ameena and Jamilla become close followers of a Jihadi matron deeply involved in the Syrian insurrection—serving a cause they believe has been distorted by Western media. The girls slowly realize that their new reality is a narrow, brutal universe apart from the one they had imagined. Tabish Khair's chilling, heart-wrenching tale paints a frightening portrait o...
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Bird Girl
- Book 19 -
- Working Titles
5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2021
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When the protagonist of BIrd Girl, whose job it is to find and salvage lost or abandoned scooters, finds a crashed rider along with her errant scooter, her life quickly proves the point of real-world privacy activists: that privacy is a worthy goal even if you think you have nothing to hide. Upon realizing that the fallen rider is a “masker,” or someone who synthetically alters her features to outsmart facial recognition systems, the protagonist makes a fateful decision, which set...
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- Book 19 -
- Working Titles
5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2021
EN
When the protagonist of BIrd Girl, whose job it is to find and salvage lost or abandoned scooters, finds a crashed rider along with her errant scooter, her life quickly proves the point of real-world privacy activists: that privacy is a worthy goal even if you think you have nothing to hide. Upon realizing that the fallen rider is a “masker,” or someone who synthetically alters her features to outsmart facial recognition systems, the protagonist makes a fateful decision, which set...
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Night Hands
- Book 15 -
- Working Titles
2019
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"It had been Tüz's eldest sister, Talia, who first explained that she would lose her hands. Tüz had been horrified, but her sister explained to her that this was the difference between little girls and women. 'You don't want to stay a little girl, do you?'Tüz had shaken her head. 'But how does he do it?'Her sister reluctantly revealed the pale pink opening at the base of her wrist, then she took her little sister's hand in hers and, with a fingernail, traced in a line around ...
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- Book 15 -
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2019
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"It had been Tüz's eldest sister, Talia, who first explained that she would lose her hands. Tüz had been horrified, but her sister explained to her that this was the difference between little girls and women. 'You don't want to stay a little girl, do you?'Tüz had shaken her head. 'But how does he do it?'Her sister reluctantly revealed the pale pink opening at the base of her wrist, then she took her little sister's hand in hers and, with a fingernail, traced in a line around ...
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Cape Cod, Revisited
- Book 18 -
- Working Titles
2020
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Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists like Joel Meyerwitz and Edward Hopper, to statesman John Hay and cinematographer Robert Richa...
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- Book 18 -
- Working Titles
2020
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Knowing that the Cape is more than tourist-riddled beaches and overpriced ice cream, Michael Thurston takes us on a late-summer retread of one of Thoreau's most famous walks. Blending travel writing and literary criticism, Thurston takes us along two centuries of the shore, reconsidering the dreadful shipwreck of the St. John, and considering the pliability of a hand-painted postcard. From artists like Joel Meyerwitz and Edward Hopper, to statesman John Hay and cinematographer Robert Richa...
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Time Served
- Book 9 -
- Working Titles
2017
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TIME SERVED explores the plight of military veterans deported after serving time for felonies. In this searing investigative report, J. Malcolm Garcia asks the question, "What makes someone American?" Garcia follows four deported vets as they work to return to their families and the country that they served through multiple tours of duty.J. Malcolm Garcia is a freelance writer and author of The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul and ...
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- Book 9 -
- Working Titles
2017
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TIME SERVED explores the plight of military veterans deported after serving time for felonies. In this searing investigative report, J. Malcolm Garcia asks the question, "What makes someone American?" Garcia follows four deported vets as they work to return to their families and the country that they served through multiple tours of duty.J. Malcolm Garcia is a freelance writer and author of The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul and ...
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Summary: How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard
5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2013
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The must-read summary of Robert Kriegel's book: "How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard: Rethinking the Rules, Reinventing the Game".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Kriegel's book "How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard" shows that it’s possible to be more productive, create more profit and be happier by working less hours, but in a more direct way. This summary takes this principle and splits it into two guidelines:...
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5 out of 5 stars based on 1 reviews
2013
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The must-read summary of Robert Kriegel's book: "How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard: Rethinking the Rules, Reinventing the Game".This complete summary of the ideas from Robert Kriegel's book "How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard" shows that it’s possible to be more productive, create more profit and be happier by working less hours, but in a more direct way. This summary takes this principle and splits it into two guidelines:...
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Strange Mercies
- Book 5 -
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2016
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Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song b...
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- Book 5 -
- Working Titles
2016
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Meet Mayhew, protagonist of Pete Duval's "Strange Mercies." Once upon a time in a faraway, Spanish-speaking land, Mayhew has a job to do: document via videotape a young woman whose Christ-like wounds bleed on cue and without scientific explanation, whose street-preacher performances might be exposed as trickery or recorded as real, a mystery we can't explain away, "Strange Mercies" evokes a world of staggering heat and blinding midday light, a world of stray dogs and curlews, "their song b...
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