Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
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A chef, a portraitist and a barber are taken hostage in a coup to overthrow their boss, the President. They are held captive in a palatial retreat in the mountains high above the capital city. Far below them, chaos tears through the streets. The chef's daughter, the portraitist's wife and the barber's l ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of ex ...Show more
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
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**Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize** From the award-winning British author--a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the w ...Show more
The Absolutist by John Boyne
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: Adult
September 1919-20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together.But in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, decl ...Show more
Mara and Dann - An Adventure by Doris Lessing
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A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find the ...Show more
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing grew up in Africa - and returns to that troubled, misunderstood continent in this searing collection of short stories. 'I believe that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some ...Show more