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Dream Homes

From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey

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The American daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants journeys in search of belonging from Brazil to New Orleans and beyond—includes recipes and photos!Born to Egyptian Sephardic Jews who fled to the United States after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Joyce Zonana spent her childhood in Brooklyn. But her experience of Jewish culture was very different from that of the other children she knew, from the ... Read more

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The American daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants journeys in search of belonging from Brazil to New Orleans and beyond—includes recipes and photos!Born to Egyptian Sephardic Jews who fled to the United States after the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Joyce Zonana spent her childhood in Brooklyn. But her experience of Jewish culture was very different from that of the other children she knew, from the
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Malicroix

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A 4-TIME NOMINEE FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAvailable in English for the first time, this “charming back-to-nature fantasia” with echoes of William Faulkner follows a recluse in the French countryside, unraveling how he came to live a life of solitude (The Wall Street Journal).A nice young man, of stolidly unimaginative, good bourgeois stock, is surprised to inherit a house on an island in ... Read more

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A 4-TIME NOMINEE FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAvailable in English for the first time, this “charming back-to-nature fantasia” with echoes of William Faulkner follows a recluse in the French countryside, unraveling how he came to live a life of solitude (The Wall Street Journal).A nice young man, of stolidly unimaginative, good bourgeois stock, is surprised to inherit a house on an island in
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The Child and the River

by Henri Bosco ...

Translated by Joyce Zonana ...

A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn–esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes.The Child and the River tells a simple but haunting tale. Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in the south of France, is permitted by his parents to play wherever he likes—only never by the ... Read more

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A new translation of an evocative, Huckleberry Finn–esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes.The Child and the River tells a simple but haunting tale. Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in the south of France, is permitted by his parents to play wherever he likes—only never by the
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To Sit on the Earth

A Memoir

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Series series The French List
A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry.In To Sit on the Earth, pioneering ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan charts his intellectual and emotional journey, from his youthful infatuation with Freud and Wilhelm Reich to his mature adoption of anthropologist Georges Devereux’s ethnographic approach to psychoanalysis.Expelled from Egypt as a Jew in 1956 when ... Read more

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A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry.In To Sit on the Earth, pioneering ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan charts his intellectual and emotional journey, from his youthful infatuation with Freud and Wilhelm Reich to his mature adoption of anthropologist Georges Devereux’s ethnographic approach to psychoanalysis.Expelled from Egypt as a Jew in 1956 when
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The Clue in the Air

A Detective Story

by Isabel Ostrander ...

Series series Otto Penzler's Locked Room Library
A high-profile murder case falls into the lap of a former policeman in this Golden Age mystery from the groundbreaking author of At One-Thirty.Though financially independent, Timothy McCarty still has second thoughts about resigning from the police force. But when the body of a woman falls from above and crashes into the sidewalk at his feet, he finds himself back in the game, haunted by the ... Read more

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A high-profile murder case falls into the lap of a former policeman in this Golden Age mystery from the groundbreaking author of At One-Thirty.Though financially independent, Timothy McCarty still has second thoughts about resigning from the police force. But when the body of a woman falls from above and crashes into the sidewalk at his feet, he finds himself back in the game, haunted by the
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Catan

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by Klaus Teuber ...

Series Book 1 - The Catan Series
Written by the award-winning creator of the global board game sensation, Catan is a new adventure perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike.Norway, 860.Half-brothers Thorolf, Yngvi, and Digur have conspired to help Asla—daughter of Halldor, a powerful Viking chieftain—to escape her father’s oppressive rule. However, when they are discovered the chieftain’s revenge is swift and mighty. ... Read more

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Written by the award-winning creator of the global board game sensation, Catan is a new adventure perfect for longtime fans and new readers alike.Norway, 860.Half-brothers Thorolf, Yngvi, and Digur have conspired to help Asla—daughter of Halldor, a powerful Viking chieftain—to escape her father’s oppressive rule. However, when they are discovered the chieftain’s revenge is swift and mighty.
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The Barrens

A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic

by Kurt Johnson, Ellie Johnson ...

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and a 2022 Great Group Reads Selection"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The RevenantTwo young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a ... Read more

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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and a 2022 Great Group Reads Selection"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The RevenantTwo young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a
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Crooked Hallelujah

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"A masterful debut" that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker).It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout ... Read more

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"A masterful debut" that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker).It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout
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Jigsaw

An Unsentimental Education

by Sybille Bedford ...

BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST: Bedford’s autobiographical historical fiction novel paints a vivid picture of life and family in 1920s Europe between WW1 and WW2.“Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often.” —The New YorkerSybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in *Jigsaw—*her ... Read more

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BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST: Bedford’s autobiographical historical fiction novel paints a vivid picture of life and family in 1920s Europe between WW1 and WW2.“Her writing is like the conversation of a clever, worldly friend who we wish would come by more often.” —The New YorkerSybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in *Jigsaw—*her
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The Gold Bug Variations

A Novel

by Richard Powers ...

National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years."The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow . . . An outright marvel." — Washington PostStuart Ressler,... ... Read more

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National BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award NomineeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years."The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity's Rainbow . . . An outright marvel." — Washington PostStuart Ressler,...
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Westering Women

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by Sandra Dallas ...

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland TrailAG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY“Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine healt... ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland TrailAG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY“Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist"If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine healt...
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Watch With Me

and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch

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“A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.” —Chicago TribuneThis volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife ... Read more

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“A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.” —Chicago TribuneThis volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife
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