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WINNER - Best Actress - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival NOMINATED - Best Film, Best Actress - Czech Lions OFFICIAL SELECTION - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Hamptons International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Busan International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Warsaw Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Chicago International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tokyo International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Dubai International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Palm Springs International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Portland International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Hong Kong International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tallgrass Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Sydney Film Festival ---Engaging. --The New York TimesExceptional...wonderfully entertaining. --The Los Angeles Times |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks - Center Point Large Print
Format: Large print book
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In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever... |
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Long Man: A novel
Amy Greene - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel of a family in turmoil, set against the backdrop of real-life historical event - the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town, and a little... |
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt - it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizendashwinning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From... |
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The Son
Philipp Meyer
Format: Book
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Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family, from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the to the oil booms of the 20th... |
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The Snow Child: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books
Format: eBook
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,... |
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 20 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print Depicting the men of Alpha CompanyJimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim OBrien,... |
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Jane Austen
Format: Hardcover
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At thecenter of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park isFanny Price, the classic poor cousin who has beenbroughtto live withthe rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving... |
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Casanova in Bolzano: A Novel
Sandor Marai - Alfred A. Knopf; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel–written within the framework of historical reality–about Casanova’s fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him.In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells... |
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