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"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches...
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Kipr. 1974 god. Para yunyh vlyublennyh, grek Kostas i turchanka Defne, tajno vstrechayutsya v romanticheskoj taverne pod sen'yu starogo figovogo dereva, rastushchego pryamo v zale. Derevo eto stanovitsya svidetelem tragicheskih sobytij, raskolovshih popolam nekogda mirnyj prekrasnyj ostrov, iskoverkavshih sud'by ego obitatelej i, kazalos', navsegda razluchivshih Kostasa i Defne…
London. Konec 2010-h godov. V sadu doma, gde s Kostasom zhivet ego...
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2024.
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In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.
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A literary page turner that explores the intertwined lives of three neighboring families in a small coastal New Zealand town—a blend of Little Fires Everywhere and The Island of Missing Trees, combining domestic drama, suspense, indigenous folklore, and the threat of extremism on ordinary lives.
Three women give birth in different countries and different decades. They eventually become neighbors in a coastal town in Aotearoa—New Zealand.
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Historical fiction meets family saga in this sweeping Caribbean tale perfect for fans of Jamaica Kincaid, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Island of Missing Trees.
St. Vincent, British West Indies, 1920
A woman born before her time, Mahala has never quite fit in. Adopted by her mother's best friend and raised next door to her biological siblings, she grows up with the generational challenges of not one, but two families of Indian descent navigating colonial...
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Discover the remarkable journey of one of literature's most compelling voicesBetween Two Worlds offers an intimate portrait of Elif Shafak, the internationally acclaimed Turkish-British author whose novels have captivated millions of readers across fifty languages. From her nomadic childhood across three continents to her emergence as a fearless voice challenging both Eastern and Western orthodoxies, this biography reveals the woman behind the words.Born...
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She crossed an ocean to escape the past. But in a moment of blood and betrayal, it all catches up to her.
In the aftermath of World War II, the dust of destruction lingers over the Greek island of Samos. Amid poverty, loss, and political unrest, one young woman dares to dream of a brighter future.
Athena: Twirls of Unsettled Dust is the gripping and deeply moving story of a woman whose courage, faith, and selflessness carry her across continents....
8) The lie tree
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On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 23
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2013.
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"Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of woman wives hate--for good reason--and most of them wish...
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c2003
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1 videodisc (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Join Thomas and his friends for some snow adventures. Will the villagers on the Island of Sodor get their yule tree in time for the winter celebration? Percy's pretends to be Jack Frost. Duck tries to save Farmer McColl's lambs from being trapped in the snow.
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c2003
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1 videodisc (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Join Thomas and his friends for some snow adventures. Will the villagers on the Island of Sodor get their yule tree in time for the winter celebration? Percy's pretends to be Jack Frost. Duck tries to save Farmer McColl's lambs from being trapped in the snow.
12) The wolf tree
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2025.
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328 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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"Eilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock inhabited by a few hundred humans and sheep. Until now, the island was best known for the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1919, a mystery that was never solved. But when a young man is found dead at the foot of the same lighthouse and the injuries are inconsistent with suicide, two detective inspectors are sent from Glasgow to investigate. Georgina 'George' Lennox is finally back from leave after...
14) The god gene
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Ice sequence volume 2
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Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene." A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain development—specifically creativity—and laymen started calling it "the God Gene."...
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"Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It's rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it's not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, 'Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it.' In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful...
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Holger Munch and Mia Kruger volume 1
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"International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime. A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran...
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2018.
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xix, 374 pages ; illustrations (some color), 24 cm
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"In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen"-- Provided...
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"-- Provided by publisher.
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A detailed look at risk identification and value creation in private equity investment
Equity Value Enhancement ("EVE"): Governance, Risk, Relationships & Knowledge ("GRRK") provides the information and tools practitioners and business owners need to work with the multitude of intangibles ("GRRK") in equity investment decisions. The author engages readers with an insightful and brief claim: "Values are more than numbers." He then provides support...






