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10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
0An intensely beautiful and haunting novel about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between. In the moments after she has been murdered and left in a dumpster outside Istanbul, Tequila Leila enters a state of heightened awareness.
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Animal Farm
0Animal Farm is the first novel in which George Orwell purposely mixed art and politics. Animal Farm depicts a group of animals who rebel against humans and become their own masters. Things work smoothly at first, and the animals revel in their freedom and have equality.
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Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
0The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 is a 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American imperialism.
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Immortality
0A young woman as she strives to work as a surgeon in Regency-era Edinburgh. Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before ― the immortality, Beecham’s vial ― were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead
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Let Us Descend
0A journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation
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Ninety Eighty Four
0Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that portrays a totalitarian society where personal freedom is non-existent. It warns against the dangers of totalitarian power, surveillance, propaganda, and thought control, in a powerful critique of modern society.
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The Bastard Of Istanbul
0The story is centred on the characters of Asya Kazancı and Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian. It is set in Tucson, Arizona; San Francisco, California; and Istanbul, Turkey. The novel deals with their families and how they are connected through the events of the 1915 Armenian genocide.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
0In The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, we get to know Nuri, a beekeeper, and his wife Afra, an artist. They live peacefully in the beautiful city of Aleppo in Syria – until their lives are upended by war. The war shatters their lives, leaving Afra blind and forcing the couple to leave their home behind.
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The Burning God
0It follows Rin, a young woman who attends Sinegard Academy, a military school. There, she learns about Shamanism, and how war is creeping closer to Nikan each day.
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The Dragon Republic
0In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix.
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The Kite Runner
01970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Poppy War
0Fang Runin (“Rin”) is a war orphan in the Nikan Empire whose foster parents employ her in their opium smuggling. She secretly studies for a national test to escape an arranged marriage and places first in her province, which sends her north to Sinegard, the imperial capital and home of the military academy