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River Angel
Manette Ansay
From the author of Vinegar Hill, the million-copy bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick, comes a haunting and eloquent story of small town life.
'In a little Wisconsin town about a hundred miles southwest of the town where I grew up, a misfit boy was kidnapped by a group of high school kids...
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Boomsday
Christopher Buckley
One of America's most hilarious novelists and bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking returns with a biting comedy about generational warfare, political shenanigans and the power of PR spin.
Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, is outr...
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A Changed Man
Francine Prose
One spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of the World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his life. His mission? ...
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Night Calypso
Lawrence Scott
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
1938 is a tumultuous year on the small Trinidadian island of El Caracol, which houses a leper colony and a convent. In the sultry heat of the dry season a young orphan, Theo, is sent to live with the island’s doctor, Vince...
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Island Songs
Alex Wheatle
'She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into - the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.'
But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendents of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the w...
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