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"Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela: the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred damnificados--vagabonds and misfits--take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a ragtag defensive militia. And so begins an epic siege..."--Back cover.

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An ambitious and groundbreaking story of African colonization in which humanity is celebrated in all its complexity.

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Planted deeply in the dark, musical fantastic heart of American storytelling, Cotman's half dozen tales are ripe for the picking.

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Originally published in the 1970, readers follow the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society, as they rebel against the military draft and 'the system'. Brutal future fiction without the fantasy.

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"Haiti, 1965. The impoverished island nation's brutal dictator rules with an iron fist. As the regime threatens to crush them, two brothers fight to survive"--Page 4 of cover.

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Drawn from the essence of Latin soul and free jazz, rich evocations of the author's ancestral roots.

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Beth Maller returns to her job as a high school guidance counselor shortly after her teenage son, Danny, is killed in a car accident. Beth didn't want Danny to drive that snowy night, but her husband insisted the roads were safe. Beth blames him for Danny's death, and she blames herself for allowing fear of confrontation to paralyze her.

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Beth Maller returns to her job as a high school guidance counselor shortly after her teenage son, Danny, is killed in a car accident. Beth didn't want Danny to drive that snowy night, but her husband insisted the roads were safe. Beth blames him for Danny's death, and she blames herself for allowing fear of confrontation to paralyze her.

In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen presented Elizabeth's thoughts and actions while Darcy appears only when in conversation with Elizabeth. This book includes those same conversations--word for word--but reverses the perspective by presenting what is going on in Darcy's life and his thoughts on their romance.

Almost half a century after the death of Irfan Orga,author of the highly acclaimed cult memoir Portraitof a Turkish Family , his son, Ates Orga, opened an old attache case andfound a coffee-stained typescript tied up with string. DarkJourney

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Following her American debut in "The New Yorker," Australian Cate Kennedy delivers a mesmerizing collection of award-winning stories that daringly travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche.

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Barns are burning in Amish author, Linda Byler's, second book in the 'Lancaster Burning' series, and no one knows who's doing it or why. Can Sarah Beiler end the terror that is pulling apart her community, even as her own heart is pulled between two young men Barns are burning in the Lancaster County's Amish community, and no one knows who's doin

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In his newest novel, cult author Peter Dimock explores the shuttering of empire and literatures capacity to re-lay Americas political trajectory.

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A collection of three novellas, Dead and Stinkin' invokes the themes of Jamaican folklore and traditions West Indian storytelling in a modern setting.

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Trainspotting meets Friday Night Lights meets Cormac McCarthy-in a swimming pool.

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Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood.

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From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

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Dear Edna Sloane is a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.

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Dear Edna Sloaneis a funny, fast-paced epistolary novel about fame, writers, ambition, and the ups and downs of a creative life.