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Around the World in 80 Reads
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An unnecessary woman
by Rabih Alameddine
An obsessive introvert in Beirut, eschewed by her family and neighbors for her divorced status and lack of religious reverence, quietly translates favorite books into Arabic while struggling with her aging body until an unthinkable disaster threatens what little life remains to her. By the best-selling author of The Hakawati.
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
A newly edited and richly annotated version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, now considered a classic of early modernism.
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
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Umami
by Laia Jufresa
Trying to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier, Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives in the heart of Mexico City, decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, which prompts her neighbors to dig into their own pasts.
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The expats : a novel
by Chris Pavone
Along the cobble-stoned streets of Luxembourg, mother and expat Kate Moore suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be and as her paranoia grows, she becomes increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her. A first novel.
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Saving fish from drowning
by Amy Tan
During an ill-fated trip to Myanmar, eleven American tourists are abducted by a renegade tribe that believes that Rupert, a surly teenager with the group, is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, who has returned to save them from their country's militaristic government, in a novel narrated by the ghost of the murdered woman who had set up the trip.
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Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home
by Nando Parrado
A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days--popularized in the best-selling Alive--provides his own chilling account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
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Dona Flor y sus dos maridos
by Jorge Amado
A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador pícaro Vadinho dos Guimares—empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible—muere durante el carnaval. Su desconsolada esposa se dedica a la cocina y a sus amigas, hasta que conoce al joven doctor Teodoro y decide asentarse. Pero después de la boda, pasionalmente insatisfecha, Doña Flor empieza a soñar con las atenciones amorosas de su primer marido. Pronto el propio Vadinho reaparecerá, dispuesto a reclamar sus derechos conyugales..
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Cuentos y leyendas
by Miguel Angel Asturias
Con la coordinación de Mario Roberto Morales, en esta edición crítica colaboran estudiosos de talla internacional como Martin Lienhard, Ana Merino e Isabel Arredondo. La intención, como lo apunta Jean-Philippe Barnabé, otro de los colaboradores, no es recopilar la totalidad de los relatos breves de Asturias, "sino más bien destacar el carácter en cierto modo circular de su itinerario creativo, mostrando la insistencia con que esta (re)creación genérica llamada leyenda, que inaugura su producción, vuelve a aparecer en los tramos finales de su carrera".
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