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Hala Jaber
Hala Jaber was born in West Africa and grew up in Lebanon, where her family still lives. She began her journalistic career in the Press Association bureau in Beirut. Twice named Foreign Reporter of ...

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The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles

Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson started writing stories from a young age, completing her first (poor) attempt at a novel aged fifteen. She graduated from the University of Nottingham with an MA in English, where she ...

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Jeffrey H. Jackson
Jeffrey H. Jackson is Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. An expert on European history and culture, he is the author of Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the...

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Paper Bullets

Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson is the author of six works of nonfiction and one novel, including Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic (FSG, 2012). His book The Thief at the End ...

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Black Elk
Atlantic Fever

Joshilyn Jackson
New York Times Bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson is the author of eight novels and a novella: The Almost Sisters, The Opposite of Everyone, Someone Else's Love Story, Gods in Alabama, Between...

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The Almost Sisters
The Opposite of Everyone

Lawrence Jackson
Lawrence Jackson is a biographer and critic whose work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, n+1, and Best American Essays. He teaches English and history at Johns Hopkins and founded the Billie Holiday ...

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Shelter

Lawrence P. Jackson
Lawrence P. Jackson is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. Author of Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, The Indignant Generation, and My Father's ...

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Chester B. Himes

Naomi Jackson
Naomi Jackson was born and raised in Brooklyn by West Indian parents. She studied fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the Maytag Fellowship for Excellence in Fiction to ...

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The Star Side of Bird Hill

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Elektra
by Jennifer Saint

Few cultures in history mastered the art of tragedy quite like the ancient Greeks. And very few ...
Salvage This World
by Michael Farris Smith

In the near-future universe of Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World, life-threatening ...
Where Coyotes Howl
by Sandra Dallas

Where Coyotes Howl may appear to be a classically conventional historical novel — a wide-eyed ...
After the Miracle
by Max Wallace

Many people have heard one particular story about Helen Keller—how the saintly teacher, Annie ...

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The Little Italian Hotel
by Phaedra Patrick

Sunny, tender and brimming with charm, The Little Italian Hotel explores marriage, identity and reclaiming the present moment.

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