A Fort of Nine Towers
: An Afghan Family Story
by Qais Akbar Omar
Hardcover: Apr 2013
Paperback: Apr 2014
With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul.
A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores - a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many ...
A Free Life
by Ha Jin
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: Jan 2009
A moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in ...
Factory Girls
by Michelle Gallen
Paperback: Nov 2022
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.
Fair Helen
by Andrew Greig
Hardcover: Nov 2015
Paperback: Nov 2016
Elderly narrator Harry Langton looks back on the adventures and friends of his youth, transporting the reader to the Scottish Borderlands at the end of the 16th century...
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