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Published Sep 2008
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Published Apr 2008
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by Louise Brown
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsWith beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan.
by Russell Banks
Published Oct 2005
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by John Dalton
Published Mar 2005
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by Craig Danner
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