Strangers and Cousins - A Novel by Leah Hager Cohen
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Category: Fiction
A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding- an entertaining story about family, culture, memory, and community. In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter C ...Show more
Scented by Laurence Fearnley
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Category: Fiction
A compelling and poignant search for identity through perfume. Granny Seren told me I had a natural talent for perfume making, and I believed her because she seemed to know what she was talking about and she never lied. It was Seren who introduced me to the idea of a signature scent. As a university lec ...Show more
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
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Category: Fiction
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel r ...Show more
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
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Category: Fiction
Who was the real George Eliot?In Love with George Eliotis a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society ...Show more
Grandmothers by Salley Vickers
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Category: Fiction
Grandmothers follows four grandmothers - Blanche, who can't seem to stop stealing things from the local pharmacy; Minna, who just wants a quiet life in her shepherd's hut, though the local children have other ideas; Cherry, who's adjusting to life in a care home; and Nan, whose favourite occupation is r ...Show more
Dark Roots (Short Stories) by Cate Kennedy
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Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION OPRAH MAGAZINE 'NEW VOICE OF THE MONTH' In these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail. Her stories are populated by people at tipping points in their lives -- m ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people. Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American fa ...Show more
The Falling Sword - Clash of Empires Book 2 by Ben Kane
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Category: Fiction | Series: Clash of Empires Ser.
CAN GREECE RESIST THE MIGHT OF ROME?Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestseller Ben Kane's latest historical adventure.ONE FINAL CLASHReeling from his defeat at the hands of the Macedonians, Rome's furious General Flamininus gathers his legions for the final strik ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k ...Show more
Paradise by Toni Morrison
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Category: Fiction
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of this novel. A novel of mysterious motives, it reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishin ...Show more