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  • GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
    GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
    MAX PORTER
    In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay u...
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    Q. 140

  • THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
    CHRISTY LEFTERI
    In the midst of war, he found loveIn the midst of darkness, he found courageIn the midst of tragedy, he found hopeWhat will you find from his story?Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced...
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  • DEMIAN
    DEMIAN
    HESSE, HERMANN
    Emil Sinclair is a troubled young outsider. But everything changes when he meets Max Demian, a mysterious and charismatic older student, who reveals the glittering possibilities that lie beyond conventional thinking and ordinary life.Under the intoxicating influence of his new mentor, Emil sets out on a journey of spiritual fulfilment, as he wrestles with the boundaries between...
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  • EMMA
    EMMA
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Jane Austen's original books (particularly Pride and Prejudice) from the 1800s were our inspiration. So, using a perfect mix of tradition and the very latest in printing techniques, 19th Century quality has met 21st Century technology. The specification of our books reflects the size and...
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  • SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
    AUSTEN, JANE
    "Sense and Sensibility" is the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who have contrasting temperaments. On the surface Elinor, the older sister represents sense or reason while Marianne represents sensibility or emotion, however upon closer examination we find that they both exhibit varying aspects of each characteristic. A classic coming of age story "Sense and S...
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  • CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
    CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
    JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”?The New York Times Book ReviewA Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quart...
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    Q. 170

  • THE COMMITTED
    THE COMMITTED
    NGUYEN, VIET THANH
    The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of "the man of two minds" as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide...
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    Q. 190

  • COUNTING MIRACLES
    COUNTING MIRACLES
    SPARKS, NICHOLAS
    From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change—or even make our peace with—the path we’ve taken.Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: ...
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    Q. 200

  • KITCHEN
    KITCHEN
    YOSHIMOTO, BANANA
    'Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young Japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy. ...
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    Q. 170

  • ATLAS SHRUGGED
    ATLAS SHRUGGED
    AYN RAND
    "This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor - and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer ...
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  • A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
    A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
    KHALED HOSSEINI
    A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep...
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    Q. 110

  • THE STRANGER
    THE STRANGER
    CAMUS, ALBERT
    Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."Now, in an illumina...
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    Q. 160

  • LOLITA (ENGLISH VERSION)
    LOLITA (ENGLISH VERSION)
    NABOKOV, VLADIMIR
    Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert. Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is ...
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    Q. 190

  • INTO THE WILD
    INTO THE WILD
    KRAKAUER, JON
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die."It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order."...
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    Q. 170

  • THE CLIENT
    THE CLIENT
    JOHN GRISHAM
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother are sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer leaves Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America.Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his...
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    Q. 120

  • SHARP OBJECTS
    SHARP OBJECTS
    FLYNN, GILLIAN
    After eight years, the murders of two preteen girls--timed nearly a year apart--bring reporter Camille Preaker back to her hometown. As she works to uncover the truth about these violent crimes, Camille finds herself forced to unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past. ...
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    Q. 190

  • THE FIRST BAD MAN
    THE FIRST BAD MAN
    MIRANDA JULY
    Review Quotes:"Miranda July's ability to pervert norms while embracing what makes us normal is astounding. Writing in the first person with the frank, odd lilt of an utterly truthful character, she will make you laugh, cringe and recognize yourself in a woman you never planned to be. By the time July tackles motherhood, the book has become a bible. Never has a novel spoken so d...
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    Q. 175

  • OUTLANDER (BOX SET)
    OUTLANDER (BOX SET)
    GABALDON DIANA
    There s never been a better time to discover the novels behind the blockbuster Starz original series Outlander. Blending rich historical fiction with riveting adventure and a truly epic love story, here are the first four books of Diana Gabaldon s New York Times bestselling saga that introduced the world to the brilliant Claire Randall and valiant Highlander Jamie Fraser: OUTLA...
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    Q. 410

  • THE SYMPATHIZER
    THE SYMPATHIZER
    NGUYEN, VIET THANH
    The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, compared by critics to the works of Graham Greene, Denis Johnson, and George Orwell, "The Sympathizer" is a blistering exploration of identity, politics, and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in Ameri...
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    Q. 180

  • NEVER LET ME GO
    NEVER LET ME GO
    KAZUD ISHIGURO
    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in...
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    Q. 100

  • ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
    ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
    DOERR, ANTHONY
    From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis oc...
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    Q. 200

  • STATION ELEVEN
    STATION ELEVEN
    EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
    One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins t...
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    Q. 190

  • THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10
    THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10
    WARE, RUTH
    "From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware--this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the as...
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    Q. 190

  • CAMINO ISLAND
    CAMINO ISLAND
    JOHN GRISHAM
    -A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very ...
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  • THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
    THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
    COLSON WHITEHEAD
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeLonglisted for the Prix Medicis One of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle ...
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    Q. 120

  • PACHINKO (NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST)
    PACHINKO (NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST)
    LEE, MIN JIN
    n this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew."There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fi...
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  • LESS
    LESS
    ANDREW SEAN GREER
    Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of five works of fiction, including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O Henry award for short fiction and fell...
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    Q. 190

  • ENIGMA VARIATIONS
    ENIGMA VARIATIONS
    ACIMAN, ANDRÉ
    From André Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the Oscar(TM) for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes "a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable" (Times Literary Supplement).Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were...
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    Q. 180

  • MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
    MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
    ELENA FERRANTE
    Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts o...
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    Q. 180

  • ROAR
    ROAR
    CECELIA AHERN
    From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates , sometimes in fantastical ways , how women of all kinds navigate the world today —now an Apple TV+ series from the creators of GLOW starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie!In this singular and imaginative story collection, Cecelia Ahern explor...
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