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Hard Red Springby Kelly A KerneySpanning 100 years of Guatemala's tumultuous history, a powerful novel offers a look at a country in perpetual turmoil, following four American women who are linked by the mysterious disappearance of a little girl.
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Spring Snowby Yukio MishimaKiyoaki Matsugae's passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court.
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestineby Ben EhrenreichThe award-winning journalist and author of The Suitors describes his immersion into the lives and struggles of everyday Palestinians along the West Bank, sharing firsthand insights into their resistance and resilience in the face of occupation by the Israeli military.
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by Rachel Carson
A handsome anniversary edition of the classic environmental study discusses the reckless annihilation of fish and birds by the use of pesticides and warns of the possible genetic effects on humans, in a volume that incorporates new essays by activist Terry Tempest Williams and Carson biographer Linda Lear.
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Chronicle of a Last Summer: a Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El RashidiA woman in Cairo reflects on three pivotal summers of her life, including when she was a 6-year-old unable to ask questions, an idealistic college student in the volatile Mubarak period and an adult in the aftermath of Mubarak's overthrow.
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Skookum Summer: a Novel of the Pacific Northwestby Jack HartAs Skookum Summer begins, the year is 1981, and reporter Tom Dawson slinks back to his tiny Puget Sound hometown after making a disastrous mistake at the LA Times. Working reluctantly at the local weekly, the Big Skookum Echo, Tom is drawn into investigating a powerful logger's murder. As the mystery deepens, the murder exposes the strains on the community as pollution, development, and global change threaten traditional Northwest livelihoods. It also forces Tom to confront his own past and discover what home really means to him. Hart weaves together a gripping and suspenseful plot with richly observed Pacific Northwest history and a vivid picture of a community on the brink of change.
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The Summer Before the War: a Novelby Helen SimonsonArriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Summer Sisters: a Novelby Judy BlumeYears after a life-changing friendship, Caitlin invites her long-lost best friend Vix to be her maid of honor, but Vix remembers all too well her friend's casual betrayals and wants to discover why her "summer sister" still has the power to break her heart.
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The Summer That Melted Everythingby Tiffany McDanielFielding Bliss recalls the summer of 1984, when he befriended a disheveled teenage boy claiming to be the devil, and brought him home to his family in Breathed, Ohio, during an intensely hot summer punctuated by a series of strange accidents.
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