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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation's foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet's death and announces the critic's secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov's enchanters--Humbert--is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Luciano is a wandering outcast in a remote, late nineteenth-century Italian village. His life becomes undone by alcohol, forbidden love, and a bitter conflict with the prince of the region over the right of passage through an ancient gateway. When the quarrel escalates, Luciano is exiled to the distant Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego where, with the help of ruthless gold-diggers, he searches for a mythical treasure, paving his way toward redemption....
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition, and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih Alinejad's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in Iran. This is the self-portrait that sparked My Stealthy Freedom, a social media campaign that went viral....
89) The harpoon gun
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
A profound trilogy on the theme of Greeks in Exile.
Author
Publisher
Canterbury Press Norwich
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Striking, memorable and profound, Pádraig Ó Tuama's poems emerge powerfully from a context of struggle and conflict and yet are suffused with hope. Reflecting on the human condition, they celebrate the sacramental nature of ordinary existence. The poems in this, his first published collection, explore the theme of exile -- being surrounded by what is unrecognizeable, yet seeking home and belonging."--Back cover)
91) Above
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When insane exile Corner and his army of mindless, whispering shadows invade Safe, a secret, underground community of freaks and disabled outcasts, Matthew, traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, and other misfits go to the dangerous place known as Above, where Matthew makes a shocking discovery about the histories entrusted to him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Part incisive new biography of Freud, part group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved his life, this riveting story shows how a group of those closest to Freud persuaded him to escape to London following the German annexation of Austria." --
94) The lair
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Leaving their motherland behind, a professor, his ex-wife, and her lover seek a place and voice in America, where they discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologies are impossible to break.
96) Dreamlandia
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"A loose retelling of Calderon's Life is a dream set along the contemporary border between Texas and Mexico, the story begins when a powerful drug smuggler banishes an undocumented midwife back across the Rio Grande and incurs a curse that gestates for 18 years. In that time, the smuggler's son Lazaro grows up alone and untrained in human interaction on a sandbar in the middle of the Rio, while the midwife's two surviving children, Blanca and Pepín,...
97) Long black curl
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In all the time the Tufa have existed, only two have ever been exiled: Bo-Kate Wisby and her lover, Jefferson Powell. They were cast out, stripped of their ability to make music, and cursed to never be able to find their way back to Needsville. Their crime? A love that crossed the boundary of the two Tufa tribes, resulting in the death of several people. Somehow, Bo-Kate has found her way back. Not content to simply return, he intends to claim control...
98) Lunar blitz
Author
Series
Ultraball ; 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Enter the exhilarating game of Ultraball--fly over pass rushers and explode into slingshot zones--through Jeff Chen's dazzling future world on the moon. Here Ultraball is life, and survival is all that matters. Perfect for sci-fi and sports fans alike. Strike Sazaki loves defying gravity on the moon in his Ultrabot suit. He's the best quarterback in the league, but while Strike's led the Taiko Miners to the Ultrabowl three years in a row, each one...
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