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Hotel World
Woooooooo-hooooooo. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth ...
With Their Backs to the World : Portraits from Serbia
Asne Seierstad (tr Sindre Kartvedt)
From the award-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul comes a remarkable insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs - under Milosevic, during the dramatic events leading up to his fall and finally in the troubled years that have followed. First published in Swedish 2004. This translation 2005....
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work
This vital collection of stories about work will be a lasting chronicle of how Americans are employed, how they find work and leave it, refuse it or scorn it, how it defines, fascinates, frustrates and ennobles us. Richard Ford's anthology is not only compelling, but extremely timely. During this ha...
Close Your Eyes
I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racing Someone is coming They're going to find me A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologi...
Rugby Folklore
From superstitions to send-offs, All Black nick-names to on-field battles: Rugby Folklore is a miscellany of stories, quotes, and facts that are part of the fabric of New Zealand rugby. New Zealand has played, celebrated and commemorated rugby like no other country. We took to the game in extraordinary ...
Jack
Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the beloved and wayward son, Jack Boughton. 'Grace and intelligenc...
Can You Whistle, Johanna?
Can You Whistle, Johanna? is a funny, sensitive illustrated chapter book about two boys searching for a grandfather—there are plenty at the retirement home—and friendship across generations. It is an international award-winner and a classic in many Why doesn’t Berra have a grandfather? And how can he g...
A Nation of Women - An Early Feminist Speaks Out
Luisa Capetillo; Félix V. Matos Rodríguez (Editor, Introduction by); Alan West-Durán (Translator)
The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo A Penguin Classic In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion e...
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