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The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir
by Wenguang Huang
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China. |
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The Watch: A Novel
by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's heartbreaking and haunting novel, The Watch, takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan, giving us a gripping tour through the reality of this very contemporary conflict, and our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of war. |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. |
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
by Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 12 Mar 2013
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| An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. |
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The Still Point of the Turning World
by Emily Rapp
Hardcover: 7 Mar 2013
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| The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother's journey through grief and beyond it, re-examining our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life. |
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The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
by Ira Byock
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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| A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life. |
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Forgotten Country
by Catherine Chung
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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| Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another. |
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The Memory of Love
by Linda Olsson
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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| From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemption |
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