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Other Press
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[2016]
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"In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what...
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Seattle is under siege by masses of living dead, and the military struggles to prevent the virus from spreading outside the city. Kate is tired of sitting around. When she learns that a rescue mission is heading back into the chaos, she jumps at the chance to tag along and put her unique skill set and, more importantly, swords to use. Lester finds a new way to deal with the situation: ignore reality with drugs. When he manages to find himself threatened,...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2017]
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English
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"A haunting, luminous reckoning with exile and loss. Raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs with other children about a land none of them had visited. Her grandmother's stories re-created in vivid, nostalgic detail the family farm she'd left behind in a borderland violently contested during the Second World...
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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born . . . that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story of war, exile, and reconnection. Her grandmother's stories recalled one true home: the family farm left behind in Latvia, where, during WWII, her grandmother Livija and her grandmother's sister, Ausma, were separated. They would not see each other again for more than fifty...
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"England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins...and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is just the beginning... All is not well at Wych Elm House....
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The first book in Zachary Klein's acclaimed Matt Jacob series, named a New York Times Notable Book, STILL AMONG THE LIVING introduces the unforgettable private eye in a case that stays with you after you turn the last page. Boston P. I. Matt Jacob has a rude and startling wake up visit from his shrink. Matt has a cloudy past-a freak accident that wiped out most of his family and a P. I. license buried somewhere in his Depression-era, Art Deco-style...
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"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractableconflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within...
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#1 In 2001, teenager Noor Ahmed was walking through the Afghan village of Gayawa when he noticed a group of people huddled in a corner. They told him that everyone else in their village had died in a surprise Taliban attack.
#2 In 1994, Afghanistan was ravaged by a civil war, but the Taliban, a fanatical band of religious students, swept aside the warring factions and...
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The son of a Georgia prosecutor killed by a car bomb offers a "compelling" account of the crime and its effect on his life (Booklist).
When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father.
From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to acceptance and forgiveness. On August 7, 1967, prosecutor Floyd "Fuzzy"...
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Chuck Lightfoot takes the reader back to the 1990s to Santa Barbara, California when he and his wife Sylvie moved into their new home next door to Jane Russell. The iconic sex symbol of the golden age of Hollywood and Sylvie became fast friends, as did their spouses. Thus became a whirlwind decade of meeting many, and even befriending some, of their Hollywood friends. This cast of bankable movie stars include Robert Mitchum, Stuart Whitman, Jonathan...
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The story is about Jared Angelus, a young man who travels the world after his parents take part in an experiment to help cure every disease in the world. This book, the first in a series, covers Jared's leaving of his home in the human compounds, meeting with the warrior tribe known as the Lupani, and learning their ways. Jared eventually joins up with the Lupani as an actual member of the tribe, stats a family, and faces the Lupani's enemies. The...
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The 2nd installment in the hit Living Among Bigfoot series.
Shortly after becoming consumed by the revelation that the sasquatch species exists, Tom is confronted by one of the creatures within the confines of his own home.
Living Among Bigfoot is a series based on Tom's multiple encounters with the Bigfoot species.
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Great Courses volume 19
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Legendary Antarctic adventurer Apsley Cherry-Garrard said "all the world loves a penguin" and in this lecture, you'll understand why. Get acquainted with Adélie, emperor, and chinstrap penguins by exploring how each evolved into the fat, flightless swimmer it is today. Explore the history of their interaction with humans and their remarkable cycles of reproduction and survival.
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#1 I grew up with only one aunt on my mother's side of the family, and I was curious about the significance of this difference. The election in Quebec in 1976 involved three political parties, and the victorious party was a separatist party whose goal was for Quebec to secede from Canada and operate as an independent country.
#2 I had a close relationship with my grandmother,...
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A rare adventure with the last Stone Age hunting and gathering tribe in Africa.
In 1997 James Stephenson arranged to have almost a full year free, a year he wanted to spend among the Hadzabe in Tanzania. He had visited these people several times previously and with every trip his fascination with them deepened, for the Hadzabe are the last hunters and gatherers still living a traditional life in East Africa.
At the age of 27, Stephenson intended...
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The outer Solar System is rich in resources and may be the best region in which to search for life beyond Earth. In fact, it may ultimately be the best place for Earthlings to set up permanent abodes. This book surveys the feasibility of that prospect, covering the fascinating history of exploration that kicks off our adventure into the outer Solar System.
Although other books provide surveys of the outer planets, Carroll approaches it from the perspective...
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This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the traumatic effects of the war.
Many Jews did not die...