Elemental by Amanda Curtin
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Category: Literary Ficton
Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter, Laura. It begins in the first years of the 20th century, in a place where the howling winds spin salt and sleet, sucked up from the ice floes. A place where lives are ruled by men, and men by the witchy ...Show more
The Ditch by Herman Koch
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back in laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him-and with the straitla ...Show more
The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars have emptied the treasuries, and the realm is governed by a self-interested elite, leaving its citizens to suffer. On the streets, malcontent and paranoia abound. A body is found in the city's swamp by a wat ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: good
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through t ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn
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Category: Literary Ficton
Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war. London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery, his mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country. He soon receive ...Show more
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: good
Rajkumar is a young orphan helping out in a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Haunted by his vision of the Royal Family and one of their attendants, he travels to the obscure town where they have be ...Show more
Isabelle In The Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: near fine
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradiction ...Show more
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Marquez 2014
The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was the ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
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Category: Literary Ficton
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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Category: Literary Ficton | Reading Level: good
"Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s ...Show more
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens--trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy ...Show more