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I'm Looking Through You : Growing Up Haunted
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 21 Oct 2008
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From the bestselling author of She's Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir—I'm Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts.

Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hardcover: Jun 2007
Paperback: 30 Sep 2008
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Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.

Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.

The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society.

A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Hardcover: Feb 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.

Sold
by Patricia McCormick
Hardcover: Sep 2006
Paperback: 1 Apr 2008
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Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When she arrives at “Happiness House”, full of hope, she learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An exceptional novel suitable for teens and adults.

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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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