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Alias Grace

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-1997
"Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor." Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created ...
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After the banquet

Mishima, Yukio, 1925-19702001
An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renou...
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To kill a mockingbird

Lee, Harper2004
Review: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and J...
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Born under a million shadows

Busfield, Andrea2009
In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most. He discovers that his beloved Georgie, a charismatic western woman, is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan. But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the n...
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The wilderness

Harvey, Samantha, 1975-2010
It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, the key events of his life shift, and what until recently seemed solid fact melts into surreal imaginings. Is his daughter alive or long dead?...
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Night road

Hannah, Kristin2011
Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Different in so many ways Lexi is an orphan and lives with her aunt on a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family, and a beautiful home. Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apa...
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All is song

Harvey, Samantha, 1975-2013
Leonard is alone and rootless, returning to London after his father's death. He moves in with his distant brother William and his family, hoping to renew their friendship but learning to drop his expectations of brotherhood. William is a former lecturer and activist who now runs informal meetings...
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The alchemist

Coelho, Paulo2014
A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selli...
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Summer's child

Chamberlain, Diane, 1950-2014
When an infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria and her family. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Dar...
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The blue between sky and water

Abulhawa, Susan2015
It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine, surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother Mamdouh tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Marian,...
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List view record 13: Heart of darkness ; and, The complete Congo diaryList view anchor tag for record 13: Heart of darkness ; and, The complete Congo diary
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Heart of darkness ; and, The complete Congo diary

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-19242015
On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only t...
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The other woman

Bohman, Therese, 1978-2015
Scope and content: "From the author of Drowned, a passionate psychological drama where questions of power and sexuality are brought to a head. She works at Norrkoping Hospital, at the very bottom of the hierarchy: in the cafeteria, below the doctors, the nurses, and the nursing assistants. But sh...
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Paper planes

Worland, Steve2015
One paper plane flies straight and fast and true, Dylan's. Twelve-year-old Dylan Webber lives in outback Western Australia in a small country town. When he discovers he has a talent for folding and flying paper planes, Dylan begins a journey to reach the World Junior Paper Plane Championships in ...
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The remains of the day

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-2015
An elderly butler on holiday in the West Country in the 1950's reflects on his life and work at Darlington Hall, his former employer and his friendships.
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Swimming home

MacColl, Mary-Rose, 1961-2015
The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl, wasn't Oxford or Cambridge, wasn't a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was Catherine...It's 1925 and fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to ...
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Our Song

Atkins, Dani2016
This is the story of Ally and Charlotte, whose paths have intersected over the years though they've never really been close friends. Charlotte married Ally's ex and first true love, David. Fate is about to bring them together one last, dramatic time and change their lives forever. Full of Dani's ...
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The fifth letter

Moriarty, Nicola2017
A lifelong friendship shared among four women is shattered when a wine-filled vacation game involving the confessions of dark secrets gives way to an anonymous rant about deeply held resentments.
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Sweet bean paste

Sukegawa, Dorian, 1962-2017
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with swe...
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Wacky Wednesday

LeSieg, Theo, 1904-2017
EARLY LEARNING: RHYMING & WORDPLAY BOOKS. Just how wacky can a Wednesday get?! With shoes on the wall, tortoises in trees, pigs without legs and teachers on roller skates, children will have lots of fun counting all the wacky things they can find on each spread of this entertaining book. With hi...
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False claims of colonial thieves

Papertalk-Green, Charmaine2018
From well-known poets John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk-Green comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, and challenges what we think we know about our country, colonisation, and how we understand our land. Striking conversations surrounding childhood, life, love, mining, death,...
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My sister's keeper

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-2018
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate, a life and a role tha...
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Sisters and brothers

Palmer, Fiona, (Fiction writer)2018
Bill, 72, feels left behind after the death of his adored wife. He relies heavily on his only daughter, Sarah. Sarah, career woman and perfectionist homemaker, struggles to keep up with the Joneses. As her husband grows distant, she has no support network. Emma, a down-to-earth nurse and busy mot...
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The year of the farmer

Ham, Rosalie2018
In a quiet farming town somewhere in country New South Wales, war is brewing. The last few years have been punishingly dry, especially for the farmers, but otherwise, it's all Neralie Mackintosh's fault. If she'd never left town then her ex, the hapless but extremely eligible Mitchell Bishop, wou...
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The book thief

Zusak, Markus2019
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.Death has never been busier, and will become busier By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is...
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Changing Lara

Jacobs, Anna2019
Lara Perryman has spent her whole life travelling for her busy corporate job, so it's a relief when she takes early retirement and settles in a leisure village in Wiltshire. She quickly makes friends with the other residents and finds herself entangled in the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies...
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The fullness of time

High, Jeff, 1957-2019
"After a turbulent eighteen months, Luke Bradford is finally at peace with his new life as the sole physician in rural Watervalley. Then, an unexpected turn of events and finances chances everything for Luke, allowing his all-but-forgotten dream of doing medical research to be within his grasp. M...
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The book of two ways

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-2020
Dawn thinks she knows everything there is to know about dying. As a death doula she helps her clients fix what is left undone so they can peacefully make the final transition. But when her plane plummets from the sky and she thinks she is experiencing the last moments of her life, she is shocked ...
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Clementine Rose. Collection five

Harvey, Jacqueline2020
Clementine Rose was delivered not in the usual way, at a hospital, but in the back of a mini-van, in a basket of dinner rolls. So begins the story of a lovely little girl who lives in Penberthy Floss in a large ramshackle house with her mother, Lady Clarissa, Digby Pertwhistle the butler and a ve...
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