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Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named "the garbagemen." As Waller becomes fascinated with these desperate men who eke out a survival by rooting through their nation's waste, he imagines they are also digging through its past as their government erases its history and walls itself off from the outside world....
62) Guarded Girls
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The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives.
Nineteen-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, finding friendship with her cellmate Brit, but she also forms a complicated relationship with a guard who seems to be watching their every move. In another time, an older inmate named Kit talks to...
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"Empowering, subversive. . . . Daniel M. Lavery twists fairy tales into elegant garrotes. . . . There's not a single weak link in the cat's-breath chain of this collection." -The New York Times Book Review
Adapted from the beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, The Merry Spinster takes up the trademark wit that endeared Daniel M. Lavery to readers of both The Toast and the bestselling debut Texts from Jane Eyre. Sinister and inviting,...
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Get the Summary of Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith.
At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel...
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"In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the "Mario Brothers Bandit" by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars. In her powerful, provocative...
66) Small Apartments
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Now a Major Motion Picture from Sony Entertainment Directed by Grammy Award winner Jonas Akerlund. Often drawing comparison to comic classics like John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces and Charles Portis's The Dog of the South, Small Apartments follows the misadventures of corpulent misanthrope, Franklin, as he tries to dispose of his dead landlord. Surrounded by quirky neighbors, strange fingernail collections, and the occasional blast from...
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The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo's magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation's past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master's daughter.
Fara and her father's slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything...
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The Winter-Blooming Tree draws us into the lives of Ursula Koehl-Niederhauser, a school teacher suffering from lapses of memory who is convinced that she has dementia, Andreas, her charming, well-intentioned but somewhat self-absorbed husband, and their grown daughter, Mia, who is about to move home after bouncing all over the country, trying to find herself as a journalist. Distracted by thoughts and memories of the winter-blooming apple tree in...
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When Edward Tamlin disappears while writing his memoir, Jane Tamlin (his wife and the mother of his young children) begins to write a secret, corrective "counter-memoir" of her own. Calling the book Choke Box, she reveals intimate, often irreverent, details about her family and marriage, rejecting-and occasionally celebrating-her suspected role in her husband's disappearance.
Choke Box isn't Jane's first book. From her room in the Buffalo Psychiatric...
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PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS
1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament
2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms
3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy 15
4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection (Isaiah 8:11-15)
5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah 5
6. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8]
7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application...
71) Lasko
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Spanning Canada, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand, a novel about following signs, finding love, and losing your self.
When Mája was seven, her mother disappeared. Now, at thirty, Mája has the same urge: to disappear, to vanish off the face of the earth. She leaves her fiancé in Canada to follow signs that lead her to the Czech Republic -- her mother's home country. In Prague, she falls in love with Kuba, a charismatic musician who is a minor...
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Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood proposes that debt is like air -- something we take for granted until things go wrong. Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is...
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The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide...
74) How Blood Works
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How Blood Works is a collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines-literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next. To explore these motifs, many of the poems borrow from the world of visual art, including painting, sculpture...
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The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work.
"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business."
In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the...
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Do you ever wish you could rewrite your life?
Our lives are defined by the stories we tell ourselves, but those stories aren't always true. Narratives that are based on outdated or irrelevant information can run (or ruin) our lives for years, even if those stories are wildly different from the objective reality that formed them.
In her sixth book, Tell Yourself a Better Lie, best-selling author Marisa Peer shares for the first time how Rapid Transformational...
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Reboot: How We Can Reprogram Our Internal Stories For Success
Do you sabotage yourself just when it looks like you are about to make it big?
Is your inability to control your emotions hurting your relationships?
Are you stuck rehashing old memories and cannot move on?
Are you constantly triggered by little things and feel stuck in a cycle of anger?
Most people don't take a moment to step back and think about the stories they tell themselves....
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Does good fortune always change things for the better? The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven’t they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She’s carefully curated a perfect suburban existence with a loving husband and two children. For over a decade, she’s been a stay-at-home mom, devoted to giving her kids the quiet, protected adolescence she didn’t have. But the surprise windfall suddenly upends the family,...
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The Millions Most Anticipated Books in February
"An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."-Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
From a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.
Cybil is a war child-the result...
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"It just shouldn't be this hard!" Raise your hand if you've ever had a day where everything that could go wrong does go wrong-you lock your keys in the car while it's running, lose control with your kids, make a mistake at the office that results in hours more work. And just when you think not one more thing could possibly happen . . . well, fill in the blank. The struggle is real, friends. It may not be major stuff. Lives are not on the line here....
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