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The Postcard: A Novel

by Anne Berest

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The Pillow Book: English-Japanese Illustrated Edition (Japanese Edition)

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The Group

by Mary McCarthy

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The Secrets We Hide by Patricia Sands

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He lost himself in the calm of it and murmured to himself the now-familiar. mantra: “Conquer anger by non-anger. Conquer evil by good. Conquer miserliness by liberality. Conquer a liar by truthfulness.”

Cross Winds: Adventure and Entrepreneurship in the Russian Far East

by Steven Myers

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“Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Zadie Smith, White Teeth Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Attia Hosain, Sunlight on a Broken Column Ali Smith, There But For The”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

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