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  • Dahanu Road

    by Anosh Irani

    Zairos is a dissolute young landowner s son in the town of Dahanu, just outside Mumbai, when his life of careless luxury is brought up short by a mysterious death: the sudden suicide of Ganpat, a tribal worker on his family s estate. Soon Zairos falls in love with Ganpat s daughter, Kusum, and finds himself defying taboos with their relationship. At the same time, his grandfather Shapur reveals to him the story of... (more)
  • Wool

    Wool

    by Hugh Howey

    This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did. This is the story of mankind clawing for... (more)
  • Backlash

    The Undeclared War Against American Women

    by Susan Faludi

    Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights “Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in her 1991 bestselling book of revelations. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary... (more)
  • White Thighs

    by Trocchi

    White Thighs by Frances Lengel (Trocchi) is the tale of Saul, a dominant European who travels to the New World, enjoys a series of games with his deliciously cruel house cook Kirstin, and finally, against the the advice of the family executor, seeks boldly for a beautiful and lost childhood nurse.
  • The 19th Wife

    by David Ebershoff

    Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader... (more)