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Fiction A to Z October 2017
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Autumn : a novel
by Ali Smith
A debut installment in a series about aging, time, love and the nature of stories examines the dynamics of pop culture, meditation and harvests in a world growing more bordered and exclusive. By the Booker Prize-nominated author of How to Be Both.
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The Golden house
by Salman Rushdie
A thriller inspired by today's headlines follows the experiences of a real-estate tycoon and his mysterious, corrupt family, who become the subjects of an aspiring filmmaker's project before revelations of monstrous past activities give way to the rise of a mad presidential candidate. By the award-winning author of Midnight's Children.
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Hanna who fell from the sky : a novel
by Christopher Meades
A week before she is to become a polygamist's fifth wife, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger from outside the secluded community of Clearhaven, who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will—and a long-held secret shared by her mother just may make that possible.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Adopted by a well-to-do, if eccentric, Dublin couple that remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and where he came from, discovering his identity, a home, a country and much more throughout a long lifetime.
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History of Wolves: A Novel
by Emily Fridlund
Fourteen-year-old Linda was raised in a commune, so she's particularly attuned to the differences between "normal" life and "other." This is true of herself, but it's also true of the young family who has just moved in down the road, and for whom Linda has started babysitting. Something is not quite right there, and as Linda looks back, as an adult, at the events of this cold Minnesota winter, the foreboding, menacing atmosphere closes in. A dark and distressing coming-of-age tale, this debut is "as cold and bleak as a Minnesota winter" (Library Journal).
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Holly and Ivy
by Fern Michaels
Facing another holiday season alone eight years after losing her husband and children in a plane crash, an airline heiress bonds with a young singing prodigy from a home where music is forbidden by the girl's grieving widower father. By the best-selling author of the Godmothers series.
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| Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel by Celeste NgUgliness seethes under a placid suburban surface in this multilayered novel, which features two families that grow too close for comfort. It begins when itinerant artist Mia and her teenage daughter Pearl rent a Shaker Heights, Ohio, house from the Richardsons, who have four kids around Pearl's age. Three of the four become Pearl's constant companions; the fourth becomes Mia's. But it's a custody suit elsewhere in the community that threatens everything -- and calls into being the "little fires everywhere." Told backwards through time through multiple narrators, this insightful book will appeal to fans of complex family dramas like Ann Patchett's Commonwealth or Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies. |
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Lost in September
by Kathleen Winter
A tall, red-haired, homeless thirty-something ex-soldier, battered by PTSD, General James Wolfe camps out on the streets of modern-day Quebec City, trying to remember and reclaim his youth. He began writing letters to his mother when he was a child soldier of 13, and ends when he was 32, already a scarred veteran of war, just two weeks before his death. In her inventive retelling, the author places General Wolfe in a different era: he is dropped into the world of contemporary Quebec. The befuddled soldier is determined to reclaim his time and understand what has become of the British North America for which he'd abandoned his personal happiness.
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My absolute darling : a novel
by Gabriel Tallent
Enduring an isolated existence after the death of her mother, 14-year-old Turtle roams the rocky shores and tide pools of the California coast and refutes every outside attempt to engage her before an unexpected friendship with a newcomer helps her realize the vulnerabilities of her life with her charismatic father.
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The Prague sonata : a novel
by Bradford Morrow
Coming into the possession of a mysterious 18th-century sonata manuscript, a young musicologist is astonished by the mastery of the music and embarks on a search for the identities of the composer and the manuscript's true owner. By the author of The Foragers.
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The red-haired woman
by Orhan Pamuk
Hired to find water on a barren plain during the hot summer, a master well digger and his young apprentice develop a filial bond neither has known until the boy becomes fatefully attracted to a red-haired actress from a traveling theatre company. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow.
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Six degrees of freedom
by Nicolas Dickner ; translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Lisa is a young woman with an eccentric and absent mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who ends up getting rich in Denmark before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifiying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious ship container Papa Zulu she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide.
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Winter solstice
by Elin Hilderbrand
Preparing for a particularly joyful holiday season after Bart's safe return from Afghanistan, the Quinn family members count their blessings, from Kevin's marriage to Patrick's rehabilitation, only to encounter unexpected challenges.
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