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Nigeria
Traces the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans determined to save the heathen souls of Africa. But its hero, a noble man who is driven by destructive forces, speaks a universal tongue.
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United States
Dede Mirabel tells about her three sisters, Minerva, Patria, and Maria Teresa, who became martyrs during the liberation of the Dominican Republic from Trujillo in 1960.
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England
A female detective named Mike Hoolihan investigates the murder of her commanding officer’s daughter, whose death was staged to look like a suicide.
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Canada
A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
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United States
A collection of short stories extends into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carribean, and Africa.
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England
The story of two boys — George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, growing up in Edinburgh — one who is forgotten by history, and one who becomes the creator of the world’s most famous detective, as they pursue their separate destinies until they meet in a remarkable alliance.
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United States
Pregnant, newly married, and living with her in-laws, Lily Austin writes a play about famed nineteenth-century British explorer Mary Kinglsey and finds inspiration in her subject’s writings.
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United States
During her family’s annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped (or caramelo) shawl has come into Lala’s possession, in a multi-generational saga of a Mexican-American family.
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England
In a futuristic American wasteland in which families are fleeing to Europe, an injured Franklin Lopez joins forces with Margaret, a woman suffering from a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to either recover or die alone, as the two discover that their dreams of a safe and secure future mean following an unexpected path.
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Denmark
A mysterious order of nuns promises Kaspar Krone, a circus clown with a gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, a reprieve from the authorities in exchange for his help in safeguarding children with mystical abilities — talents that he also shares.
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England
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
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Ireland
As fascism spreads across 1930s Europe, Zoli Novotna, a young Gypsy poet, and her grandfather seek refuge with a clan of Romani harpists, where her fame as a poet leads to a flight to the West as she struggles to find where she truly belongs.
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Wales
On their wedding day, a young couple — Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women — looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
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Japan
The collapse of a marriage is superimposed on an investigation of recovered war memories and a man’s search for his own identity.
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Ukraine
A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts — “Storm in June,” set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and “Dolce,” set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration.
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United States
On an ill-fated art expedition to the southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burma jungle, where they encounter a tribe waiting the return of the leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.
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