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1) Once a rebel
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As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland. She is on the verge of losing everything, including her life, when a handsome Englishman cuts through the violent crowd to claim that she is his. Callie falls into her protector's arms, recognizing that he is no stranger, but the boy she'd once loved, a lifetime ago. Lord George Gordon Audley had been Callie's best friend, and it was...
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If You Want To Win, Get The Sisterhood On Your SideThe seven women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But before they can enjoy their prize, they’ll have to tackle a risky new mission in the heart of Sin City....
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"From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States. After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter's tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control....
5) Absurdistan
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Open Absurdistan and meet outsize Misha Vainberg, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, lover of large portions of food and drink, lover and inept performer of rap music, and lover of a South Bronx Latina whom he longs to rejoin in New York, if only the American INS would grant him a visa. But it won't, because Misha's late Beloved Papa whacked an Oklahoma businessman of some prominence. And Misha is paying the price of exile from his adopted...
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity ... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville. When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him. Israel is...
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" Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with...
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A love story about a man and a woman who loved each other in spite of everything that conspired against them: family, their own fears, or even the political winds of a beautiful, warm, yet cruel island.
Una historia de amor sobre un hombre y una mujer que se amaban a pesar de todo lo que conspiraba contra ellos: la familia, sus propios miedos, o incluso los vientos políticos de una isla hermosa, cálida pero cruel.
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An exiled Cuban is entrenched, armed to the teeth, in his carpentry shop to prevent him from being captured. While waiting for the arrival of the police, he Facetimes, explaining the reasons why he intends to face the authorities. His story, sometimes humorous, is intertwined with three of his friends (an art critic, a hustler and an Argentine psychologist) offering a fresh take on the recent political and cultural history of the American continent...
12) Banitka: powieść
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W roku Pańskim 1894 zostałem wyjęty spod prawa. W dniu tańca weselnego Ada czuje się szczęśliwa. Uwielbia swojego barczystego, nieśmiałego męża i pracę jako praktykantka położnej. Ale jej szczęście nie będzie trwało długo. Obowiązkiem każdej kobiety jest mieć dziecko, aby zastąpić te, które zginęły podczas Wielkiej Grypy. A po roku małżeństwa i bez ciąży, w mieście, w którym bezpłodne kobiety są wieszane jako...
14) Another spring
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When both Union and Confederate sympathizers are driven from their homes, bonds of friendship unite the refugees as they seek a new life.
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