Bone Worship: A Novel by Elizabeth Eslami from Pegasus is $2.99 (US Kindle)
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A rich and soul-searching novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage.
Jasmine Fahroodhi has always been fascinated by her enigmatic Iranian father. With his strange habits and shrouded past, she can’t fathom how he ended up marrying her prim American mother. But lately love in general feels just as incomprehensible. After a disastrous romance sends her into a tailspin, causing her to fail out of college just shy of graduation, a conflicted Jasmine returns home without any idea where her life is headed.
Her father has at least one idea–he has big plans for a hastegar, an arranged marriage. Confused, furious, but intrigued, Jasmine searches for her match, meeting suitor after suitor with increasingly disastrous (and humorous) results. As she begins to open herself up to the mysteries of familial and romantic love, Jasmine discovers the truth about her father, and an even more evasive figure–herself–in this highly original and striking debut novel.
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Pilgrim by Hugh Nissenson from Sourcebooks Landmark is $2.59 (US Kindle)
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A new masterpiece from National Book Award and Pen/Faulkner Award finalist Hugh Nissenson, The Pilgrim explores the foundation myths of America, a country settled by people intoxicated by the pursuit of God and yearning for redemption and freedom.
Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, comes to the New World from England in 1622 in search of salvation and a new beginning. Burdened with a lifelong struggle between his desire for faith and his doubts about God’s love for him, he leaves the only land he has ever known after the death of his fiancée, in hopes of being freed of the temptations that torment him.
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The Ninth Day (Emma Caldridge) by Jamie Freveletti from Harper is $0.99 (US Kindle)
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In less than nine days, terror crosses the border . . .
Hiking in Arizona, biochemist Emma Caldridge inadvertently interrupts the operations of dangerous traffickers in human cargo—and is chased south into the arms of millionaire drug merchants. Suddenly a prisoner of Mexico’s most feared cartel, Emma makes a shocking discovery in the marijuana fields outside Ciudad Juarez: plants rotting with a flesh-eating toxin that causes a truly horrible death within nine days of exposure. And there is no antidote.
The cartel believes that U.S. agents contaminated the plants, and, determined to make their enemy pay, they prepare to spread their lethal product across America. Emma Caldridge searches desperately for a cure, but time is running out more quickly than she anticipated. For Emma herself has been infected—and, barring a miracle, she will die before the terrible dawning of . . .
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Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott from Chelsea Green Publishing is $2.86 (US Kindle)
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Shocking, factual, and inspiring, Not One Drop traces the twenty-year trail of Cordova, Alaska, residents as they cope with the largest oil spill and one of the longest-running court cases in U.S. history—and, ultimately, the failure of Exxon to come through on its promise to compensate them adequately for their losses and clean up their environment after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Not One Drop is a moving human tale. A fisherwoman and scientist, Riki Ott chronicles the struggles and resilience of the Cordova people as they overcome despair and find hope. Her activist heart leads her into the center of the battle forher community, and ultimately to a quest to protect other communities in America from similar harm.
Ott portrays a clash of human rights and corporate power that leaves everyAmerican vulnerable, unless we can reinvigorate our democracy and reform a legalsystem that currently holds corporations above citizens.
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