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    Book Jacket: The Lion Women of Tehran

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    by Marjan Kamali

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    Seven-year-old Ellie, living in Tehran in the 1950s, has just lost her father. She and her single mother are forced to leave their lavish life behind and move to a tiny home ...

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    Book Jacket: The Bright Sword

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    by Lev Grossman

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    All his life, Collum has longed to become a Knight of the Round Table: to serve the great King Arthur, have heroic adventures, and go on glorious quests. Although a poor,...

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    Book Jacket: The Original

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    by Nell Stevens

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    Money has always been bound up with marriage, for reasons of lineage and inheritance and more. The two concepts can become conflated, mirror one another, can each make the ...

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    Book Jacket: There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

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    by Ruben Reyes

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    While it is common for children of immigrants to reflect on their ancestors' struggles through literary or historical fiction, or family memoir, it is more unusual for ...

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