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  • The cutting season
    Author:
    Locke, Attica
    Summary:

    "The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience." —Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times...
  • The Cow-Hunter A Novel by Charles Hudson
    Author:
    Hudson, Charles
    Summary:

    Vividly set in the rich pluralistic culture and primeval landscape of colonial South Carolina, this historical novel brings to life, and back into our memory, the birth of free-range cattle herding that would later come to be associated...
  • The chaperone : a novel
    Author:
    Moriarty, Laura
    Summary:

    Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and icon, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks heads to New York to make it big, accompanied by a chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Ultimately, the time they spend together changes...
  • The bronze horseman
    Author:
    Simons, Paullina
    Summary:

    Tatiana Metanova's world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia. Yet there is light in the darkness when she meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. He is drawn to Tatiana, and she to him. But their...
  • The bridal chair : a novel
    Author:
    Goleich, Gloria
    Summary:

    As a child growing up in 1920s Paris, Ida Chagall copes with her father Marc Chagall's brilliant artistic mind, overbearing ego, and the tight leash he keeps on her. But as Ida blossoms into a young woman, she begins to glimpse freedom...
  • The Bradshaw variations
    Author:
    Cusk, Rachel
    Summary:

    Winner of both the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, Rachel Cusk was hailed by Granta magazine as one of the best young British novelists. When Thomas Bradshaw quits work to look after his young daughter, his...
  • The Apple House
    Author:
    Campbell, Gillian
    Summary:

    Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she...
  • Team Trinity South Africa's Favourite Heroine Is Back
    Author:
    Snyckers, Fiona
    Summary:

    Life at boarding school is not all diets, dresses and dances, as Trinity Luhabe discovers when her parents move overseas for a term. She has hardly settled into Sisulu House when she finds herself caught up in the most unexpected love...
  • Talk to the paw
    Author:
    Metz, Melinda
    Summary:

    Jamie Snyder is thirty-four and single but NOT ready to mingle. After suffering through The Year of the Non-Commital Man, The Year of the Self-Absorbed Man, and The Year of the Forgot-to-Mention-I'm-Married Man, Jamie's ready to...
  • Sympathy
    Author:
    Sudjic, Olivia
    Summary:

    One of Entertainment Weekly's "16 Debut Novels to Read in 2017" One of the Observer's "New Faces of Fiction for 2017" One of Elle UK's "Six Top Debut Authors of 2017"' One of i-D/Vice...
  • Swim
    Author:
    Wat, Eric C.
    Summary:

    Carson Chow is a high-functioning addict, using crystal meth on weekends. One Friday night, as he's passed out from a binge, he misses thirty-eight calls from his father detailing the death of his mother.
  • Summit : a novel
    Author:
    Farthing, Harry
    Summary:

    A summit is a summit, and the truth is the truth. But the view from 8,848 meters isn't always so clear. Two men, seventy years apart, push for the top of Mount Everest, driven by forces beyond their control and something inside...
  • Strong Bread
    Author:
    Riccio, Giovanna
    Summary:

    These elegantly crafted works of social and psychological realism, counterpointed with expressionistic and surrealist textures, employ a language teeming with images, ideas and rhythms. This versatile book of travel poems, portraits, a...
  • Still life with crows
    Author:
    Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.
    Summary:

    When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse--either way, no one is safe.
  • Stay where I can see you : a novel
    Author:
    Onstad, Katrina
    Summary:

    Does good fortune always change things for the better? The Kaplan family has just won 10 million dollars in the lottery. But haven't they always been lucky? Gwen thought so. She's carefully curated a perfect suburban existence...
  • Speak no evil
    Author:
    Iweala, Uzodinma
    Summary:

    In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences...
  • Speak Ill of the Living
    Author:
    Arsenault, Mark
    Summary:

    Everybody had thought the car-jacking led to the banker’s murder. Then he turns up in a photograph taken by his kidnappers. But if the banker is still alive, whose ashes are buried in his grave? Reporter Eddie Bourque is back, chasing...
  • South of Elfrida
    Author:
    Rubinsky, Holley
    Summary:

    The nature of relationships is skilfully illuminated in this collection of stories by award-winning author Holley Rubinsky. South of Elfrida delves into the lives of those coming face to face with personal truths that require resilience...
  • Some Clouds A Hector Belascoarian Shayne Detective Novel / Volume 2
    Author:
    Taibo, Paco Ignacio
    Summary:

    Mexico City independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Héctor soon discovers that Anita,...
  • Sinbad Rogue of Mars
    Author:
    Garavaglia, John
    Summary:

    A prophecy foretells of a stranger from distant lands who will vanquish the false king. Eight years after the assassination of King Dadgar, his vile nephew, Adhkar, has usurped his throne and enslaved the Azurian people, igniting a...

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