{"title":"People \u0026 Places","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"frankenstein-in-baghdad-paperback","title":"Frankenstein in Baghdad - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAhmed Saadawi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational \u003c\/b\u003eBooker Prize finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brave and ingenious.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.\" --Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.\" --Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive--first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. 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Jones in this second novel in an adorable new chapter book series about Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl who is getting ready to celebrate Lunar New Year!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMindy is excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Even though it's the first one without her mom, Mindy is determined to enjoy the day. She decides to make traditional Korean New Year food, a rice cake soup that's her favorite. But things aren't going quite to plan, and the celebration doesn't feel the same as it did before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the help of her family and friends, can Mindy find a way to still enjoy her old holiday traditions, and create new ones along the way?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyla Lee is the bestselling author of young adult novels like \u003ci\u003eI'll Be the One\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFlip the Script\u003c\/i\u003e. 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