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  • Red River
    Red River
    by Lalita Tademy
    Hardcover: Jan 2007
    Paperback: Jan 2008
     
    This is a story about men whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War; newly freed men who have to fight for their liberties, hoping the federal government will come to their aid. But after a deadly racial massacre, once-proud families ...
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  • Red Sky in Morning
    Red Sky in Morning
    by Paul Lynch
    Hardcover: Nov 2013
    Paperback: Oct 2014
     
    Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events. A visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.
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  • The Red Tent
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant
    Hardcover: Sep 1997
    Paperback: Sep 1998
     
    In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. In The Red Tent Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable ...
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  • Redeployment
    Redeployment
    by Phil Klay
    Hardcover: Mar 2014
    Paperback: Feb 2015
     
    Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.
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  • The Reformatory
    The Reformatory : A Novel
    by Tananarive Due
    Hardcover: Oct 2023
    Paperback: Sep 2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    The Reluctant Fundamentalist
    by Mohsin Hamid
    Hardcover: Apr 2007
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    Changez is at the top of his class at Princeton, and is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica. But in the wake of September 11, Changez ...
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  • Remarkable Creatures
    Remarkable Creatures
    by Tracy Chevalier
    Hardcover: Jan 2010
    Paperback: Oct 2010
     
    A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel.
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  • Remarkably Bright Creatures
    Remarkably Bright Creatures : A Novel
    by Shelby Van Pelt
    Hardcover: May 2022
    Paperback: Mar 2025
     
    Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Debut Award

    For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
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