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Aue by Becky Manawatu
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELauē (verb) to cry, howl, groan, wail, bawl. (interjection) expression of astonishment or distress.Taukiri was born into sorrow... -
![Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin]()
Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsViolette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences... -
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Fire by John Boyne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness... -
![Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb]()
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life...Categorized as:
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![The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlexander McCall Smith’s beloved, bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series continues as Botswana’s best and kindest detective finds her personal and professional lives have become entangled. Precious Ramotswe is very busy these days. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone... -
![Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns]()
Cemetery Nights by Stephen Dobyns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the fabulous storytelling of our dreams to the mute passions of domestic life, Stephen Dobyns explores a full range of human experience in these narrative poems... -
![No Time To Blink by Dina Silver]()
No Time To Blink by Dina Silver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA profoundly moving story of impossible risks and love without boundaries. Told from alternating points of view––that of a daughter whose past is a mystery, and that of a mother with painful secrets to share.Catherine Clarke defied her family’s expectations when she married Gabriel, a handsome Lebanese businessman... -
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Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of Commonwealth Book Prize,AsiaChinaman is the story of W.G. Karunasena, a fictional retired sports writer and major alcoholic. In his last days, Karunasena decides to make a documentary on Sri Lankan cricket, with special focus on Pradeep S. Mathew, a forgotten Sri Lankan spin bowler. Karunasena, along with his friend Ari, sets off on a journey to find him...Categorized as:
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![Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş]()
Shadowless by Hasan Ali Toptaş
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHasan Ali Toptas exquisitely weaves an enigmatic, mystical tale of memory and identity, displacement and belonging 'I'm a barber,' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten…' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year... -
![Bertie Plays the Blues by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Bertie Plays the Blues by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDomestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough of his neurotic hot-housing mother, he puts himself up for adoption on eBay... -
![The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr]()
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives , this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based on Yambo Ouologuem.The first Sub-Saharan African winner of France’s top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity...Categorized as:
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![The Audacity of Goats: A Novel by J.F. Riordan]()
The Audacity of Goats: A Novel by J.F. Riordan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll is not well north of the tension line. A series of unsettling nighttime incidents have left the islanders uncertain whether to be nervous or annoyed... -
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Blood-Drenched Beard by Daniel Galera
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom Brazil’s most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man’s restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family’s past—So why did they kill him?—I’m getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context... -
![A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski]()
A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw—he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly... -
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![Familia by Lauren E. Rico]()
Familia by Lauren E. Rico
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compelling, emotional novel, two young women are brought together by a genealogy test and a haunting question that shakes their understanding of what family is and who they truly are . . -
![I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch]()
I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsArrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: "I'm not Stiller!" He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity...Categorized as:
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![Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro]()
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom.After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit...Categorized as:
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![The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith]()
The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReaders will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana’s remote and striking Okavango Delta... -
![A Heart So White by Javier Marías]()
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know...Categorized as:
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![Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto]()
Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem...Categorized as:
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![Handling Sin by Michael Malone]()
Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible... -
![The Woman at Number 24 by Juliet Ashton]()
The Woman at Number 24 by Juliet Ashton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'This brilliantly written and captivating story instantly drew us in and refused to let go. Fresh, funny and utterly fabulous, it’s the perfect holiday read' HeatMeet the residents of number 24 in the warm, witty and wonderful new novel from bestselling author Juliet Ashton. When your marriage falls apart, the last place you'd want your husband to move to is downstairs... -
![The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo]()
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression―by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring... -
![Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies]()
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA false engagement announcement, printed in the Salterton Evening Bellman and heralding the impending marriage of a university instructor and a professor's daughter, sets off a chain of misadventures and... -
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![Stolen by Susan Lewis]()
Stolen by Susan Lewis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucy Winters' parents have always been there for her. Loving, gentle and kind they have given her everything she could have wished for. Now, estranged from her husband, she has moved to the country to take over their thriving auction business. The moment she begins to prepare for her first sale she knows she's made the right decision... -
![Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey]()
Children of the Street by Kwei Quartey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature—is the most unsettling of his career... -
![Dark Chapter: Hard-Hitting Crime Fiction Based on a True Story by Winnie M. Li]()
Dark Chapter: Hard-Hitting Crime Fiction Based on a True Story by Winnie M. Li
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the Not the Booker Prize 2017NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELVivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society... -
![The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo]()
The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Frank, an Irish dwarf, writes a personal memoir, he moves from dark isolation into the public eye. This luminous journey is marked by memories of his lonely childhood, secrets of his doomed young mother, and his passion for a woman who is as unreachable as the stars... -
![The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara]()
The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Cyclist Conspiracy tells the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from contemplation of the bicycle, and seek to move in and out of history, manipulating events; the Brothers are part of a conspiracy so vast and so secret that, in many cases, the conspirators themselves are unaware of their participation in it... -
![Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed]()
Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrue love never dies. It might vanish, but if it is true, it will always find its way backTwenty-two-year-old Zarish has everything in life she could ever ask for. She is rich, beautiful and popular. She and Haroon, her handsome childhood sweetheart, are inseparable until a new finance professor joins their university-Ahmar Muraad. Every girl in the university has eyes for him... -
![Sins of the Mother by Tara Hyland]()
Sins of the Mother by Tara Hyland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of Daughters of Fortune comes a sweeping family drama that follows a mother and daughter through the poverty of post-WWII Ireland and London and into the glamour of 1950s Hollywood and beyond, revealing the ways in which family ties can never be broken... -
![Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer]()
Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNine weeks after losing her husband, Charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in New Hampshire, where her shipmates are an aging blue-haired widow, an emotional seventeen-year-old, and the ugliest dog in literature. A genuine bond develops among the three women, as their distinct personalities and paths cross and converge against the backdrop of emotional secrets, abuse, and the wages of old age... -
![Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Summary & Guide by BookRags]()
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Summary & Guide by BookRags
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis study guide consists of approx. 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer... -
![The Understory by Pamela Erens]()
The Understory by Pamela Erens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize... -
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![Hartley's Grange by Nicole Hurley-Moore]()
Hartley's Grange by Nicole Hurley-Moore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn one short day Lily Beckett's life falls apart when she loses her dream job in fashion and finds out her boyfriend is having an affair. Totally devastated, she ends the relationship and flees the city. Lily heads to the country town she grew up in to seek sanctuary with her big sister, Violet, and niece, Holly. But bad luck hits her yet again when she crashes her car on the way... -
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Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn an isolated country town afflicted by interminable drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, shooting dead five parishioners before being gunned down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend... -
![Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd]()
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man . . .Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach... -
![The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Mitsuyo Kakuta]()
The Eighth Day by Mitsuyo Kakuta, Mitsuyo Kakuta
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe year is 1985. Kiwako is an ordinary office worker, in love with a married man, until an unwanted abortion causes her to snap. She kidnaps her lover's six-month-old baby and runs away with her, eventually taking refuge in an all-female religious commune. Here, she attempts to raise the girl... -
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The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behindSteven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return...Categorized as:
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![A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar]()
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Wondering if there’s a novel out there that gives Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a run for its money? Here you go. [A Guardian and a Thief is] an indelible piece of writing, in equal parts dazzling and devastating...Categorized as:
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Missing by Susan Lewis
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife, Jacqueline, to the station. There's a smattering of rain in the air, the traffic is in its usual snarl, and the radio's churning out the latest news. Nothing remarkable crops up in conversation, nor do either of them appear anything other than their normal selves. At the station, Miles draws up just past the taxi rank... -
![Touch: The Inspiration for the Film, Explore the Complexities of the Human Heart by Olaf Olafsson]()
Touch: The Inspiration for the Film, Explore the Complexities of the Human Heart by Olaf Olafsson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades beforeWhen the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing...Categorized as:
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![Allusion by Andi Hyldahl]()
Allusion by Andi Hyldahl
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEvery year, an anonymous gift is left on eighteen-year-old Lucy's porch. It’s the only gift she receives all year, and it’s exactly what she needs. This year’s gift exposes hidden clues, untangling the undisclosed fates of her parents. Along the way, she finds Toph, a college athlete who’s easy on the eyes and deems to be more useful than suspected... -
![The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare]()
The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, and interpret the dreams of the people in the empire, seeking the master-dreams that give clues to the empire's destiny...Categorized as:
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![The Last Wolf by László Krasznahorkai]()
The Last Wolf by László Krasznahorkai
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Last Wolf features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain...Categorized as:
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![The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson]()
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.' The greatest opening line in New Zealand literature opens this hilarious Gothic melodrama. Klynham is a sleepy little New Zealand town in which not a lot happens. But then one moonlit night the Scarecrow arrives, swilling brandies and looking for victims. Something sordid and even macrabre lies ahead...Categorized as:
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![What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez]()
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home. The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling... -
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The Illegal Gardener by Sara Alexi
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDriven by a need for some control in her life Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farm house in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. The house is liveable by local standards but the job of restoring the garden is too big, it requires strength. Juliet cannot bring it to life on her own...Categorized as:
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![When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo]()
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. You were never the smartest child, but even you should know that when a dead woman offers you a cigarette, the polite thing to do would be to take it. Especially when that dead woman is your mother.The St... -
![The Conqueror by Jan Kjærstad]()
The Conqueror by Jan Kjærstad
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA professor writing the definitive biography of Jonas Wergeland is unable to process the astonishing volume of contradictory information he unearths—until a mysterious woman appears on his doorstep. Possessing innumerable intimate stories about Jonas, the woman details the dark side of his rise to prominence, and through her stories tries to explain what made him a murderer...
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