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The dew breaker
Edwidge Danticat.
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244 p. ; 22 cm.
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Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee.
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220 p.
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The double bind : a novel
Chris Bohjalian.
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368 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Dough : a memoir
by Mort Zachter.
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173 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Soñar en cubano : novela
Cristina García ; [traducción de Marisol Palés Castro].
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322 p. ; 21 cm.
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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
Barack Obama.
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xvii, 453 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
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Dress your family in corduroy and denim
David Sedaris.
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257 p. ; 22 cm.
Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.
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Dropped from heaven
Sophie Judah.
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x, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
"A fiction debut - a collection of stories about everyday life within a community of Indian Jews as its ancient culture confronts the modern world." "In the mythical village of Jwalanagar, the Jewish traditions of the Bene Israel have survived for more than two thousand years, but the twentieth century brings with it modernity and cataclysmic political change. In these nineteen interconnected stories follow this community across the years as its way of life is forever altered." "In "Hannah and Benjamin," the parents of a young woman are shocked when she defies their rejection of the man she wishes to marry - but no more shocked than the man himself. In "Nathoo," a kindly Jewish soldier and his wife adopt a Hindu boy orphaned in the post-independence violence of 1947 - with disastrous results. In "Dropped from Heaven," a mother with three unmarried daughters at home and a copy of Pride and Prejudice in her handbag springs into action when she hears that two single brothers are coming to town looking for brides. And in "Old Man Moses," a lonely and imperious old man is visited by his Israeli grandson and the young man's girlfriend, and finds that there is still a place in his heart for love."--BOOK JACKET.
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Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert.
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334 p. ; 24 cm.
A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.
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Elements of style : a novel
Wendy Wasserstein.
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307 p. ; 25 cm.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection "Shiksa Goddess" comes a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world.
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The emigrants
W.G. Sebald ; translated by Michael Hulse.
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The four long narratives in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants at first appear to be the straightforward biographies of four people in exile: a painter, an elderly Russian, the author's schoolteacher as well as his eccentric great-uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories of the Holocaust, he collects documents, diaries, pictures. Each story is illustrated with enigmatic photographs, making The Emigrants seem at times almost like a family album - but of families destroyed. Sebald weaves together variant forms (travelog, biography, autobiography, and historical monograph), combining precise documentary with fictional motifs. As he puts the question to "realism", the four stories merge gradually into one requiem, overwhelming and indelible.
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Emma Lazarus
Esther Schor.
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xiii, 347 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
This is the pioneering biography of the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whose verse gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but whose extraordinary life has remained a mystery until now.
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