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Book
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Author
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Location
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Description
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The Lover
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Marguerite Duras
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Indochina
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Two outcast lovers at the end of the colonial period in
Indochina
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In The Time of the Butterflies
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Julia Alvarez
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Dominican Republic
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Story of “Las Mariposas”, four sisters who became
leading opponents of the Trujillo dictatorship.
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The Syringa Tree
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Pamela Gien
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South Africa
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Two families in South Africa under apartheid—a popular
off-Broadway play was based on this story of interracial bonds.
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Oscar & Lucinda
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Peter Carey
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Australia
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Eccentric, larger than life characters populate this
Booker Prize winning story of the Victorian age-- Aussie style.
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Miss New India
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Bharati Mukherjee
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India
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Young woman from small traditional village to
teaming urban city in a tale of the cultural, social and economic changes
in the New India.
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Tiger Hills
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Sarita Mandanna
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India
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Saga of love, family and duty set in a changing India.
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The Crocodile
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Maurizio De Giovanni
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Naples, Italy
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Italian policeman engages in a battle of wits with
brutal serial killer in Neapolitan underworld.
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State of Wonder
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Ann Patchett
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Brazilian Amazon
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Research scientists involved with big pharmaceutical
encounter death, intrigue and harrowing conditions in the jungle.
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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Kiran Desai
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India
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Humor, magic and outrageous characters abound in this
story of life, love and family.
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Botswana, Africa
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The author’s love song to Botswana and its people in the
form of a light mystery with irresistible characters.
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Ines of My Soul
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Isabel Allende
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Chili
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Fiery love affair between war hero Pedro de Valdivia and
Ines Suarez as they build the city of Santiago, warring against the
indigenous population.
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Pearl of China
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Anchee Min
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China
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Fictional account of friendship between author Pearl
Buck and young Chinese girl.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
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David Mitchell
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Japan
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Tale of the clash of pleasure, profit and propriety set
in the Japanese Empire with a Dutch clerk and Japanese midwife.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
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Nigeria
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Love and a flight for survival
set in 1960s Africa in country on the verge of revolution.
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Soul Mountain
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Gao Xingjian
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China
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Nobel prize winning author weaves a tale of an epic
voyage to a mythic mountain to flee repression-full of memorable
characters, traditions, legends and landscapes.
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Waiting
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Ha Jin
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China
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National Book Award winning title-tale of love impacted
by Party dictates, ancient ties of tradition and
custom.
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The Orphan Master’s Son
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Adam Johnson
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North Korea
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Pulitzer Prize winning title explores hidden life in
closed society through a story part thriller, part innocence lost, part
romantic love.
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Running the Rift
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Naomi Benaron
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Rwanda
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Young runner dreams of winning Olympic Gold but must
face the horrific crimes occurring in his country.
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The Little Paris Bookshop
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Nina George
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Paris
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Owner of a floating bookstore on the Seine prescribes
books to ease life’s hardships, but will he fix his own heart?
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The Paris Winter
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Imogen Robertson
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Paris
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A dark tale in the city of light as a young artist
discovers deception beneath an elegant façade in the Belle Epoque.
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