From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countriesChina and the United Statesand two families.
A Map of Glass
by Jane Urquhart
Hardcover: Mar 2006
Paperback: Mar 2007
Jerome, a young artist on a remote island retreat, discovers the body of an old man, Andrew Woodman, frozen in the ice. One year after the body is discovered, Sylvia Bradley a withdrawn, sheltered woman whose secret affair with Andrew changed...
A Map of Home
by Randa Jarrar
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: Aug 2009
Nidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her familys last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family.
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary ...
Beautifully written, emotionally and sensually arresting"a Persian love poem for the twenty-first century" this deeply felt and moving novel explores the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, nationality, religion, and the most ...
The March
by E.L. Doctorow
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: Sep 2006
Stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The "Great March" in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading ...
March
by Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: Jan 2006
An extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American historyby the author of the international bestseller Year of Wonders. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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