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  • An Ordinary Man
    An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography
    by Paul Rusesabagina
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    The riveting life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina who, as his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, sheltered more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged ...
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  • Ordinary Wolves
    Ordinary Wolves
    by Seth Kantner
    Hardcover: May 2004
    Paperback: Aug 2005
     
    'I've not read anything that so captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture. Ordinary Wolves is painful and beautiful'.. Louise Erdrich.
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  • Orfeo
    Orfeo
    by Richard Powers
    Hardcover: Jan 2014
    Paperback: Sep 2014
     
    The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus.
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  • Orhan's Inheritance
    Orhan's Inheritance
    by Aline Ohanesian
    Hardcover: Apr 2015
    Paperback: Jan 2016
     
    Moving between the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the 1990s, a story of passionate love, unspeakable horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that haunt a family.
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  • The Orientalist
    The Orientalist : Solving The Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
    by Tom Reiss
    Hardcover: Feb 2005
    Paperback: Mar 2006
     
    'Mixing memory with desire, this marvelous and original book once more reminds us of ways through which the imagination becomes a refuge from the uncontrollable cruelties of reality.'
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  • Origin
    Origin : A Novel
    by Diana Abu-Jaber
    Hardcover: Jun 2007
    Paperback: May 2008
     
    A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood.
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  • The Original
    The Original : A Novel
    by Nell Stevens
    Hardcover: Jul 2025
    Paperback: Jun 2026
     
    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
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  • The Orphan Master's Son
    The Orphan Master's Son : A Novel
    by Adam Johnson
    Hardcover: Jan 2012
    Paperback: Aug 2012
     
    An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.
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