Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin; Megan McDowell (Translator)
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Category: Literary Fiction
A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are ...Show more
We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Teenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and beaches, Sea Cliff's hidden corners and eccentric characters-as well as the swanky all-girls' school they attend. Thei ...Show more
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Category: Literary Fiction
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows The Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
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Category: Literary Fiction
Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, Double Blind is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge - for pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, survival - and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover, Franci ...Show more
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild isla ...Show more
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
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The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when ...Show more
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
1843. Grace Marks, sixteen, is declared guilty and sentenced to life in prison for participating in the murders of Thomas Kinnear, for whom she was a maid, and Nancy Montgomery, the housekeeper and Thomas' lover. Years later, a group of reformists and spiritualists try to obtain a pardon for her.
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
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THE VAN by Roddy Doyle
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Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into bu ...Show more
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
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"Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable, Nate, her husand, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a younger woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. A sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. . . . "
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
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Rabbitte family is a bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the ...Show more
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
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When Ellen Gulden learns that her mother has cancer, her father insists that Ellen come home to look after Kate. Ellen has always been the special child, the high achiever, her father's intellectual match. All her successes have been geared to pleasing her academic father, yet as Ellen cares for Kate sh ...Show more