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81) The Journey
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The year was 1966. Interfaith marriages in India were a taboo. They were rare and often provoked violence.
The Journey is the telling of one such love; of the trials and tribulations faced by a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl, both mired in a forbidden love.
The novel delves into the complexities of interfaith marriages and unravels the resentment and intolerance of individuals in particular and society in general.
82) The Treasure
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Donald Morse was about to become the youngest Master ever of the oldest (and one of the largest) Freemason lodges in Ohio. He had his agenda for the year all laid out, but a brother Mason and a longtime family friend would change Donald's plans, sending him on a search that would cover three states and uncover information about his ancestors. And the journey began when, in the reception line following his installation, Hugh Frazure pulled him close...
83) Black & White
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1957 – Troubled times. Cracks are forming in the foundation of "separate but equal". Battle lines are being drawn and armies assembling on both sides of the issue.
A naïve and untraveled Donnie Hansen along with twenty other teens set out from Boston headed for North Carolina to hold a racially integrated youth conference. The ghosts of racism, both ethereal and solid, dog the journey from the start.
As the tour sinks below the Mason-Dixon...
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The best days of my first year as a teenage girl were my encounters with Tezen, a lovely fish who always called me by my first name, Alicia, in the land of Haiti. I still remember our conversations, each of us desperately wanting to discover the universe of the other. There was a mystery somewhere for both of us to unearth. How do humans live? How do fishes live? Our questions sounded similar because our worlds were each unknown to one another.
Nevertheless,...
85) Equal And Alike
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A young man leaves his father's farm to make his way. He gravitates to Independence, Missouri, in mid-19th Century. It is not long before Argonauts form wagon trains to depart the city to make the trip across the continent to seek their fortune in search of gold in the California wilderness. Joshua McBride is curious.
He happens upon a meeting designed to recruit members to a company of gold seekers bent on making a fast trip to the goldfields. The...
86) The Flying Years
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Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven's The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House, Angus secretly marries a Cree woman, who dies in a measles epidemic while he is on an extended business trip. The discovery, fourteen years later, that...
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Book set includes book one through three, complete story.
The story starts in Kabul, Afghanistan were the Afghan president asked the USA for assistant in stopping the Taliban who has terrorized the city, from throwing acid on women's faces, to poisoning the women trying to get an education. Tools of the Taliban include public flogging, murder and suicide bombers. The women are afraid to get an education. SSGT Jones will lead a special trained force...
88) Bluebird
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If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.' The GuardianA stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb.
A house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart.
Gordon Grimes has become the accidental keeper...
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Sophea Lim is living the American dream as an aspiring executive producer at her local television station. But at the home she shares with her Cambodian mother and grandmother, her success is measured by how soon she can find a husband and how well she prepares a spring roll. While Sophea embraces her new life in America, her elders cling to memories of their old life in the Cambodian royal family. They continue to live in the shadow of the genocide...
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Once upon a time, America was great and life was positive beyond all imagination; but a dark economic and moral deterioration has now slowly settled upon the landscape. Even the cherished rule of legitimate law has been replaced by extortionist political inquisition. This is the story of one mans escape and his ascendancy into glittering wealth and eternal glory. As always, print copies of all books are available via amazon or The Book Patch
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In 1942, Danya was asked to do the unthinkable. Already sentenced to death for distributing anti-Fascist literature, German SS Commandant Heinrich Tauber offered her a chance at a reprieve-if she would breed with soldiers under the Lebensborn Program, to produce new Aryan soldiers to replace those Germans killed in Russia. As her wall of resistance weakens against the continuous onslaught from the SS, devilishly handsome and shrewd double agent Arie...
92) Fragile Courage
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It can be a struggle for anyone-aligning bold dreams with family expectations...
Melina is no stranger to that struggle. Being raised in a strong, family-centered Mexican American culture, she has dreams of discovering the world beyond her neighborhood's limited boundaries. Melina loves her family but has decided to break from her family's cultural norms and attend college several hours away in hopes of a different life than she's used to. But trying...
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To die in a fire is one of the most terrible deaths. Who would want to die with the skin and muscles in ebullition "swallowing smoke, swallowing misery, swallowing one's own consciousness"? This happened to thirty six people the last day of January 1980 in the Spaniard Embassy in Guatemala City. If we had seen the episode, without a doubt, we would have frequent nightmares similar to the ones that hunt those who survived the years of the politics...
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Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve-year-old, being captivated by this culture of theatre. The place was packed. Tiptoe, over the matt-black heads of the crowd, he could see the performers. He edged closer, but so rapt was everyone that none of them looked around. The figure who held...
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Presentamos una selección de los cuentos de la tradición oral chilena, obtenidos y escritos con prodigiosa perseverancia y admirable fidelidad por el gran estudioso del género, Ramón Arminio Laval, quien los publicara en el primer cuarto del siglo xx, diferenciando las narraciones de contenido maravilloso de las concernientes a las picardías de Pedro Urdemales, de las de fórmula y de las de nunca acabar. El lector encontrará aquí un poderoso...
96) Seduce
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Word has spread that Seduce is dead, and mourners gather for her wake. But with Seduce in her coffin, her memories and consciousness of those around her persist. There are those like Hyacinth who have come to make sure that that " dutty filthy woman" has finally ceased to be the temptation of the husbands of decent, respectable women. Seduce' s daughter, Glory, full of thwarted love...
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IN THE SHADOW OF 10,000 HILLS follows the intertwining stories of three women from vastly diverse cultures searching for personal peace in post-genocide Rwanda. Lillian Carlson, an African-American civil rights activist now in her early 50s, traveled to Africa from Atlanta in 1970 to grieve the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She dreamed of bettering the world, one child at a time, with an orphanage in Rwanda's rift valley. Two decades later,...
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A fictionalized account of the exile of the Chagossian Islanders from the Chagos Archipelago in the 1970's, this story follows youth, Ti Jean, through exile from his island Diego Garcia and on into adulthood. With "old ways" understanding and a true heart filled with the song of Chagos he brings forth the wisdom and spirit of his ancestors, the saga songs and dance, his own inner music. Jean's work inspires and helps others to survive amidst prejudice,...
99) Prisnms
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The news of an old friend's murder throws Eugene Coard, a St Lucian psychiatrist in the USA, into reflections on his own successful migrant's journey. Trouble is, Coard is a devious liar and self-inventor who has turned American paranoia about race to his own advantage. A witty and satirical novel that challenges the reader to ask: just what can they believe?
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In the history of the Near East, the high-flying royal falcon symbolizes "good-luck" and "prosperity." Surprisingly, the crossbar of a balance from the end of which the pans are suspended and the two equal arms or beams are also called "shaaheens" or "falcons." The handing down of these old traditions and customs leads us to believe that this was not just a mere random act of coincidence. Our judicious forefathers were aware of the secret of the Elixir...
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