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Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.
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The American University in Cairo Press
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2013.
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Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The story opens with Mubarka Badr wanting to dictate a letter to God for her grandson to send to the Almighty by email. We are then ushered back in time to Mubarka's fiery adolescence and her painfully aborted romance with Muntasir. The shifting fortunes of the Deeb clan affect every aspect of...
9) My Antonia
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First Avenue Editions, A division of Lerner Publishing Group
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[2015]
10) Weyward: a novel
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2024.
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch hunts of the seventeenth century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of...
11) Beloved: a novel
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Plume
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1988.
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
12) Boundless
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Spears Books
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2015.
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When strangers invade her village in 1910, young princess Samarah's knowledge of English unwittingly contributes to her capture. Forced into a life of servitude on a plantation far removed from her homeland, Samarah struggles with losing the life and people she had known and loved. Her mother and Bintum - her childhood love who seeks and reunites with her at the plantation- offer a sense of the familiar until tragedy strikes leaving Samarah alone...
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Lexington Books
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2018.
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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.
17) Northanger Abbey
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First Avenue Editions, a division of Lerner Publishing Group
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[2017]
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