Sunnyside

by Glen David Gold

America is on the brink of war, but the only battle Charlie Chaplin is fighting is against himself. Sunnyside follows three overlapping fortunes: Leland Wheeler, son of the last (and worst) Wild West star, as he heads to the battlefields of France; intellectual...

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Dog Boy

by Eva Hornung

In a deserted Moscow apartment building four-year-old Romochka waits for Uncle to come home. Outside the snow is falling, but after a few days hunger drives Romochka outside, his mother's voice ringing in his ears. Don't talk to strangers. Overlooked...

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Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver

"The Lacuna" is the story of a man's search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. Born in the U.S., reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison...

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The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and now Oryx and Crake for the 2003 Booker prize. She has won...

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Figurehead

by Patrick Allington

What if you saved a man’s life and he went on to play a leading role in one of the bloodiest revolutions of modern times? Ted Whittlemore, a radical Australian journalist supports the Khmer Rouge in its early years of formation, saving the life of Pol...

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Ask and the Answer

by Patrick Ness

We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his...

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch.The police are baffled and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its...

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Unscratchables

by Anthony O'Neill

Crusher Mc Nash is the police force's most fearless detective, a barrel-chested bull terrier with a biscuit-thin temper and a barbed-wire tongue.
Cassius Lap is the finest agent in the Feline Bureau of Investigation, an imperturbable Siamese with...

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The Hungry Ghosts

by Anne Berry

Alice Safford, the sensitive and love-starved daughter of a leading figure in Hong Kong's colonial government, explores the site of an old army hospital. The ghost of a young Chinese girl, murdered during the Island's Japanese occupation twenty-five years...

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Inspector Singh Investigates A Peculiar Malasian M

by Shamini Flint

When his superiors send fat Singapore police Inspector Singh to Malaysia, they believe they are getting rid of a trouble maker. The un-bribable Singh is flummoxed however, when he is asked to help a beautiful Singapore ex-pat out of prison.
Chelsea...

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