Trick by Domenico Starnone; Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator)
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Category: Fiction
Sharp, succinct storytelling and breathtaking prose combine in this new novel by the author of Ties, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Reviews and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year. Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and pre ...Show more
Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children #1) by Alastair Reynolds
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Category: Fiction
One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of th ...Show more
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine
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Category: Fiction
One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story - one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love - he conside ...Show more
Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane
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Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous WritingIt fell from the sky and rose from the ground. Water from the hills met swollen river flats and turned wheat plains to swamplands. Big floods washed away the farmers' profits and losses in one giant tongue of brown water Growing up in the shif ...Show more
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum?s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. But no one's ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for. In one terrible moment his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. Ther ...Show more
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protegees. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for want ...Show more
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Baron Corvo
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Category: Fiction
The titlular character of Hadrian the Seventh is inextricably entangled with his creator, Frederick Rolfe, the self-titled Baron Corvo. Both were Catholic converts and unsuccessful candidates for priesthood, who led bitter, misunderstood lives, betrayed (they thought) by friends, bishops and prelates. B ...Show more
Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Fiction
Puskin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic ...Show more
The Man Who Would Not See by Rajorshi Chakraborti
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When family suddenly becomes your greatest challenge, mystery, rediscovery. As children in Calcutta, Ashim and Abhay made a small mistake that split their family forever. Thirty years later, Ashim has re-entered his brother's life, with blame and retribution on his mind. It seems nothing short of smashi ...Show more
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
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Category: Fiction
A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.Born into a wealthy family in northern England, sent to boarding school, and educated by nuns, Ivory Frame escapes to interwar Paris where she finds hersel ...Show more
Look at Me by Mareike Krügel; Imogen Taylor (Translator)
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Category: Fiction
The violent outbursts and unpredictable behavior of 11yo Helli have put an end to her mother's dream of continuing her career. Katharina holds on to her sanity by making lists for herself - lists of things that remind her she's more than a chauffeur and crisis-manager. Her older son, 17yo Alex, seems to ...Show more
Evacuation by Raphael Jerusalmy
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Category: Fiction
Naor, a young filmmaker, is driving with his mother. He tells her about being in Tel Aviv after a recent evacuation.Everyone else has fled, except for Naor and Yael, his artist girlfriend, and Saba, his grandfather, who is a writer. The occasional missile explodes nearby. But Saba refuses to leave the p ...Show more