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  The Reluctant Mullah

  Sagheer Afzal

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  In a moment of idle curiosity, Musa tries on the modest garb of a Muslim woman to experience for himself what it's like to be veiled. While this causes much mirth among his fellow students at the Madrasah, the elders are not amused, viewing Musa's experimentation as a prank too far. Back at home he must conform to family life and face the prospect of an arranged marriage. Cleverly, the family patriarch, Dadaji, offers him a deal: a month of days to find himself a bride or else Musa must accept Dadaji's own choice. And so the race is on for Musa, a devout Muslim and gentle idealist, who dreams of a perfect companion but despairs of ever finding her. When his siblings and friends step in to help, their efforts lead both to hilarity and outrage but soon the dark side of tradition rears its ugly head...A brilliant debut.

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  Ogres Don't Dance

  Kirsty McKay

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  Ogden is a gnarly, man-eating ogre . . . with the dream of becoming a dancer. But no one will dance with him - not when they think they're going to be his next meal! Then Ogden meets Willow, a gutsy girl who lives in a tree house. She makes a deal with him: if he'll stop eating humans, she'll teach him to dance.  A laugh-out-loud beastly story for 7-9 year olds. Will Ogden the ogre achieve his dancing dreams?

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  Mooncalf

  J Thomas Brown

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  Between the covers you will find joy, satire, pathos, magic, and the goblin spirit, duende. Verse from dreams, some from close encounters with the bending sickle. The closer the chine, the truer the line.

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  Abbott and Costello: Prepare for...

  John Grant, Bud Abbott

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  Lou comes in singing. Lou has his Christmas shopping list. Abbott and Costello talk about Christmas gifts and the spirit of Christmas.

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  Fourteen Months in American...

  Francis Key Howard

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  Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national anthem about the "land of the free," which makes a very stunning contrast. The sufferings that were imposed on him by the Union forces had the effect of solidifying his determination to resist unjust governmental dictates. (Introduction by Katie Riley)

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  A Personal Matter

  Kenzaburo Oe

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  From the Nobel Prize–winning author: “One of the great short novels of the 20th century” (The Wall Street Journal). Internationally acclaimed as one of the world’s most influential writers, Kenzaburō Ōe brings to the fore the post-WWII rage and anxiety of a decorous society in this “deathly black comedy . . . dripping with nuclear terror” (The Japan Times). Bird is an antisocial twenty-seven-year-old intellectual hanging on to a failing marriage with whiskey. He dreams of going to Africa where the sky sprawls with possibilities. Then, as though walloped by a massive invisible fist, Bird’s Utopian fantasies are shattered when his wife gives birth to what he calls their “monster baby.” Now, Bird is left with one question: How can he and his wife spend the rest of their lives with this damaged thing clinging to their backs? As shameful, disgraceful, and unthinkable a desire as it is, Bird has an answer. Not sealed. Not just yet. Not before Bird flees on a bender of indiscriminate (and frustratingly impotent) sex, hard liquor, self-delusion, and most terrifying of all—self-discovery.   “Very close to a perfect contemporary novel.” —The New York Times   “An astonishing novel.” —Mother Jones

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