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by Tasneem Jamal In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were given ninety days to flee. Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975, Where the Air Is Sweet tells the story of Raju, a young Indian man drawn to Africa by the human impulse to seek a better life, and the two generations that follow him and carve a niche for themselves in a racially stratified colonial and post-colonial society.
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Heike’s life appears perfect: she cares for her young son, Daniel during the day, while her nights are filled with clinking glasses and charming conversation. But lately, Heike has noticed something is off, something sinister that she can't quite put her finger on. It’s possible Heike’s worries are all in her head, but when Daniel vanishes she can no longer deny that something is very wrong.
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Find you in the dark by Nathan RipleyA chilling debut thriller in the vein of Dexter. Martin Reese has a hobby: he digs up murder victims. He buys stolen police files on serial killers, and uses them to find missing bodies. Calls in the results anonymously, taunting the police for their failure to do their job. As the police zero in, Martin makes a shocking discovery. It seems someone—someone lethal—is very unhappy about the bodies he’s been digging up.
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Shrewed : a wry and closely observed look at the lives of women and girls by Elizabeth RenzettiDrawing upon Renzetti’s decades of reporting on feminist issues, Shrewed is a book about feminism’s crossroads. From Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we’ve come — and how far we have to go.
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Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in the grip of Alzheimer's.
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Nearly normal : surviving the wilderness, my family and myself by Cea Sunrise PersonIn the wake of her mother's death, her marriage's end, and her business's failure, the former model (originally introduced to readers in her successful first memoir North of Normal) continues her search for answers about her dysfunctional family in order to draw connections between her early life and later mistakes
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Nurse at the top of the worldby Gloria Hunter-AlcockThe adventures of a young Canadian nurse who lived and worked for several years in the Canadian Arctic providing health care to the Inuit people. The stories took place more than forty years ago; before Anik satellite, when Iqaluit was Frobisher Bay, Inuit were Eskimo and there was still the Eastern Arctic and the Western Arctic.The Aboriginal people had no diabetes, there was no HIV, the cold war was still raging and man had not yet walked on the moon.
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Heart of the city by Robert RotenbergFormer detective Ari Greene attempts to leave behind his life as a police officer by taking a construction job and bringing his adult daughter home to Toronto, but when he discovers the corpse of a developer he is plunged back into his old career. “Rotenberg fills his books with interesting and engaging characters. The story is well paced and provides several twists and turns before the murder method and killer are revealed.” - Andree
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Run hide repeatby Pauline DakinThe author describes her childhood, spent on the run with her brother, her mother, and her mother's delusional boyfriend, due to their claims that the family was being pursued by the Mafia, and her eventual discovery of the truth. "An excellent book that had me turning through the pages furiously to find out how a smart person falls for the lies of her loved ones." - Julie
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