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The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns is a translation by Matty Weingast of the Therigatha (Verses of the elder Nuns), poems …
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (translated from Polish) is by Olga Tokarczuk, who won the Man Booker Award for Flights. The …
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Edward, the protagonist in Ann Napolitano’s novel Dear Edward, is a twelve-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash. Among the 191 …
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The Wives by Tarryn Fisher is a psychological thriller in which the protagonist shares her husband with two other wives, having him to herself only …
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