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  • The Boiling Season

    A Novel

    by Christopher Hebert ...
    An ambitious young man struggles to define himself and his future while his Caribbean homeland plunges into a violent revolution, in a novel that recalls Ann Patchett's Bel Canto and Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day: Hopwood Award-winning writer Christopher Hebert's The Boiling Season. A passionate, intimate exploration of one man's loss of innocence and reclamation of identity, this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Christopher Hebert ...
    July 30th, 1993. Gabe' s life has blown off course. A high school baseball star on the verge of greatness, he finds his confidence shaken by a lingering minor injury. Instead of spending his summer training and waiting for legions of scouts to usher him to the major leagues, he retreats— baffling his coach, his teammates, and his long-suffering girlfriend by taking an unlikely job as a pizza ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecological Trauma

    Resource Extraction and Settler-Colonialism in African Literature

    by Christopher Hebert ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    Intervening in debates across literary trauma theory and ecocriticism, this book argues that in an age increasingly defined by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on society and ecology, it is necessary to graft the ethical concerns of trauma studies onto the lessons of ecocriticism, especially in the context of African literatures.Drawing upon a corpus of African literary texts ranging ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Angels of Detroit

    by Christopher Hebert ...
    Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of abandoned buildings.In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate landscape: a scrappy group of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    by Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    by Teresa Grant ...
    Series Book 5 - Rannoch Fraser Mysteries
    From the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts. . .In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attaché and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Life

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    by Adina Senft ...
    Series Book 2 - The Whinburg Township Amish
    Three Amish best friends. Three hurting hearts. One quilt that binds them together.Emma Stolzfus has never been courted or kissed, and now that she’s thirty, it has become her place as the family’s last unmarried daughter to look after her elderly mother. But in the dark hours while Mamm is asleep, Emma writes letters and essays for Amish periodicals, short stories for her nieces and nephews, and, ... Read more

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  • The Far Side of the Sky

    A Novel of Love and Survival in War-Torn Shanghai

    by Daniel Kalla ...
    Series Book 1 - Shanghai Series
    A Jewish doctor in WWII shanghai must protect his family and community in this "amazing novel" of terror, love, and resilience in the face of danger (Huffington Post).On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for ... Read more

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  • The Splendour Falls

    by Susanna Kearsley ...
    "I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of OutlanderIn an intricate balance of past and present, Susanna Kearsley offers a story of French historical fiction full of breathless suspense, Gothic ... Read more

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  • The Girl on the Cliff

    A Novel

    by Lucinda Riley ...
    From the author of the international bestseller The Orchid House, a mesmerizing story about two Irish families and the tangled ties that have bound them since World War I.To escape a recent heartbreak in New York, Grania Ryan returns to her family home on the rugged, wind-swept coast of Ireland. Here, on the cliff edge in the middle of a storm, she meets a young girl, Aurora Lisle, who will ... Read more

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  • The Midnight Rose

    A Novel

    by Lucinda Riley ...
    From the #1 international bestselling author of The Orchid House—an epic saga of two remarkable women and two love stories spanning the years from 1920s India to modern-day England, The Midnight Rose is a sweeping work that lingers long after the final page.Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose is a richly woven multigenerational storythat sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great ... Read more

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  • The Other Story

    A Novel

    by Tatiana de Rosnay ...
    From the New York Times and international best-selling author Tatiana de Rosnay comes The Other Story, "[a] brilliant pager-turner"(BookPage), layered and beautifully written, that is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future.Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas ... Read more

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