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New and Recently Released!
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See how small: a novel
by Scott Blackwood
Describes the lives of family members, witnesses and suspects after three teenagers are murdered in a grisly ice cream shop arson, as well telling the perspective of the dead girls, who try to connect with the living from beyond.
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If I fall, if I die: a novel
by Michael Christie
Follows the experiences of young Will, who is closeted in his home by a fiercely agoraphobic mother and who ventures out and makes a new friend with whom he searches for a missing boy.
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A small indiscretion : a novel
by Jan Ellison
A first novel by an O. Henry Prize-winning writer finds successful designer and family woman Annie Black journeying to London to piece together the events of a fateful night of indiscretions from her past.
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| The secrets of midwives by Sally HepworthSkipping from past to present and back again, this debut tells the story of three generations of midwives, each keeping secrets from the others. There's grandmother Floss, who's retired from midwifery but can't let go of the past; her fatherless daughter Grace; and Grace's daughter Neva, who's been hiding her pregnancy beneath baggy scrubs. Neva's refusal to reveal the father's name prompts both Grace and Floss to revisit their pasts. Likened to the popular BBC series Call the Midwife, this moving tale shows how the truth can bring families together, as well as split them apart. |
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Not forgetting the whale
by J. W. Ironmonger
When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers, who quickly take this lost soul into their midst. But what the villagers don't know is that Joe Haak has fled the City of London fearing a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a collapse forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. But is the end of the world really nigh? Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from the outside world? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay? Intimate, funny and deeply moving, Not Forgetting the Whale is the story of a man on a journey to find a place he can call home.
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In real life
by Killen, Chris
Three friends from university days find, ten years later, that the real world isn't quite as they'd envisaged. Likeable and honest debut.
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| The country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra NewmanAt some point in the future, the U.S. has been decimated by a disease that kills everyone before they're 20 years old. Nomadic bands of youths scavenge what they can, but when 15-year-old Ice Cream Star realizes her older brother is showing symptoms of the infection, she risks everything to find a cure. The capture of a "roo" (a light-skinned foreigner) offers hope for a cure (he's nearly 30), but the threat of war between the roos and the wandering tribes, who try to band together for strength, may jeopardize her plans. Written in the broken English that is all these children know, this suspenseful tale combines the appeals of The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and The Walking Dead, only "much, much better" (Booklist). |
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When the doves disappeared
by Sofi Oksanen
Two former deserters from the Red Army during World War II try to keep their past a secret in 1963 Communist Estonia. By the internationally best-selling author of Purge.
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| The round house by Louise ErdrichIt's a North Dakota summer in 1988 when 13-year-old Joe Coutts' mother, a tribal enrollment specialist on the Ojibwe reservation, is viciously attacked, raped, and nearly killed. Traumatised, she retreats to her bed, unwilling to identify her attacker. Frustrated with the official investigation's glacial pace, Joe sets out to find his mother's assailant and deliver justice. Imbued not only with Ojibwe culture and beliefs but with Christian ideas and the philosophy of Star Trek: The Next Generation as well (Joe and his friends are hooked on the show), this is a thoughtful, perceptive take on a violent crime. |
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| Flight behavior by Barbara KingsolverDellarobia Turnbow gave up college and a chance at a better life when she got pregnant in high school; eleven years later, she's deeply tired of a life that's going nowhere. But the appearance of millions of Monarch butterflies on her in-laws' land might upend all that - just maybe not in the way she'd hoped. Expecting tourists, they also get reporters and scientists flooding into their corner of Appalachia, concerned with what the butterflies' unusual flight behaviour might mean for climate issues. Whether you're interested in environmental issues or love the author's charismatic characters, Flight Behavior offers a richly detailed read. |
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| Salvage the bones: a novel by Jesmyn WardWinner of both the National Book Award and the Alex Award, Salvage the Bones is set in 2005, as a desperately poor African-American bayou family tries to prepare for a hurricane called Katrina. There's 14-year-old Esch, secretly pregnant, three brothers, and their alcoholic dad; though we know what Katrina will do to the area, for Esch's family, there's little they can do to meaningfully prepare for the devastation it will cause. Painful to read yet exquisite, this novel, with its memorable characters, is "superbly realized" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Winter's bone: a novel by Daniel WoodrellSixteen-year-old Ree Dolly lives in the bitterly poor Missouri Ozarks, part of a family that makes and sells crystal meth. When her dad jumps bail, her family (two small brothers and a sick mother) risks losing their house unless Ree can find him. To do that, she must navigate tangled relationships among taciturn relatives and survive a harsh, unforgiving winter. This startling and sharply accurate portrait of rural America and the compelling tale of a vulnerable, courageous, and determined young woman received incredible reviews (Booklist said "one runs out of superlatives to describe" the author's writing) and of course the 2010 film inspired by this book jumpstarted actress Jennifer Lawrence's career. |
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