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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"A formally brilliant and powerful volume from "one of the most extraordinary innovative poets writing today" (Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times). Moving from Paris to Beirut and back, Calligraphies is a tribute to exiles and refugees, the known and unknown, dead and living, from the American poet Marie Ponsot to the Syrian pasionaria Fadwa Suleiman. Award-winning poet Marilyn Hacker finds resistance, wit, potential, and gleaming connection in...
2) Black wolves
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"Twenty two years have passed since Kellas, once Captain of the legendary Black Wolves, lost his king and, with him, his honor. With the king murdered and the Black Wolves disbanded, Kellas lives as an exile far from the palace he once guarded with his life. Until Marshal Dannarah, sister to the dead king, comes to him with a plea: rejoin the palace guard and save her nephew, King Jehosh, before he meets his father's fate"--Page 4 of cover.
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Motherbridge volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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"In the aftermath of a failed utopia, an exiled woman fights to be reunited with her children by harnessing the mythic power that changed the planet forever"--
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Another day volume 1
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The brides of Maracoor finds Elphaba's granddaughter Rain "washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island's civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire...
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"Sophie serves coffee at an underground cafe. She stays in the shadows and listens to the troubles of the parlor guests, but does not draw attention to herself for one simple reason: Sophie is supposed to be dead. When a nationalistic revolution forces Sophie from her safe haven, she must make a dangerous journey to a new city, one that revels in hedonism and chaos. After joining up with a band of smugglers, she finds herself on a long and treacherous...
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Divide volume 2
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"The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines, they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find the materials they'll need to get everyone out. To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive"--
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"The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing--and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels--the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military. At the Divide, Adequin Rake, commanding the Argus, has no resources, no comms--nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. They're humanity's last chance."--Provided by publisher.
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"Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society"--
11) The lady waiting
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish m̌igrě named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...
12) The postcard
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"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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Seven deadly sins volume 41
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Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The secret ambition that Merlin has held in her heart since the formation of The Seven Deadly Sins is ?nally exposed as she awakens Arthur as the King of Chaos. But the powerful and lonely Sin of Gluttony isn't the only one overjoyed to see the universe's primal entity return, and an even hungrier monster appears to help inaugurate the new age. The Seven Deadly Sins may have put the Demon Lord behind them, but one last deadly foe remains. After facing...
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Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,|c[2018]
Pub. Date
2018
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"With a novelist's eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country-- and the stubborn allure of the American dream"--Front jacket flap.
15) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
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