Exile (Africa Trilogy #1) by Jakob Ejersbo
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Category: Fiction | Series: The Africa Trilogy
For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empt ...Show more
The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
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Category: Fiction
1935: As turmoil brews in Europe, Sira Quiroga's carefully mapped-out life is thrown into chaos, first by love, then betrayal. Abandoned and alone, all she has are her skills as a seamstress, a talent that could not only save her but may influence the course of a war. When the glamorous circles of high ...Show more
Plague of Doves by Erdrich Louise
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by ...Show more
The Legend of Pradeep Matthew by KARUNATILAKA SHEHAN
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Category: Fiction
"A crazy ambidextrous delight. A drunk and totally unreliable narrator runs alongside the reader insisting him or her into the great fictional possibilities of cricket."--Michael Ondaatje Aging sportswriter W.G. Karunasena's liver is shot. Years of drinking have seen to that. As his health fades, he em ...Show more
The Trouble I've Seen by Martha Gellhorn
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Category: Fiction
Martha was the youngest of sixteen, handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House. From these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in th ...Show more
Trains and Lovers: The Heart's Journey by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Fiction
In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: 'You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. ...Show more
Women by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Fiction | Series: CB | Reading Level: good
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sud ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, "1984", now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a ...Show more
The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman
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Category: Fiction
'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.' For fans of The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Phillip Pulman, Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel is the story of a Jewish man, Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea ...Show more
The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Fiction | Series: JK
"His first novel is a revelation ...the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ...wonderful". ("The Times"). "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during his lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and b ...Show more
Carry the One (POD) by Carol Anshaw
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Category: Fiction
For fans of the film "The Big Chill", Anne Tyler's Dinner at Homesick Restaurant and Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved, in her fourth novel, Carry the One, Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning, following a we ...Show more
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
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Category: Fiction
New York Times Bestseller "Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about "Arcadia." But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life "Arcadia" wends a harrowing pa ...Show more