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• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

  a Novella

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics

• The Buenos Aires Quintet

  Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel, 1939-2003

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  When Pepe Carvalho's uncle asks him to find his son, Raul, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. But family is family and soon Carvalho is in Buenos Aires, getting more caught up in Argentina's troubled past than is good for anybody

• Christodora

  Murphy, Tim

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  Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crimes of the Father

  Keneally, Thomas, 1935-

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  Ex-communicated to Canada due to his radical preaching on human rights, Father Frank Docherty is now a psychologist and monk. He returns to Australia to speak at a conference, and unwittingly is drawn into the stories from two different…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Man's Prayer

  Baldwin, Jackie

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  Eighteen years earlier, DI Frank Farrell turned his back on the church. But when an ex-priest is murdered in his hometown, he has no choice but to delve into his past

• Different Class

  Harris, Joanne, 1964-

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  After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't fit the mould, a troublemaker, a boy with hidden shadows inside

• Everybody's Son

  a Novel

  Umrigar, Thrity N., 1961-

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  During a terrible heat wave in 1991 the worst in a decade ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. Anton is placed with child services. Judge David…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• History Is All You Left Me

  Silvera, Adam, 1990-

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  When Griffin’s first love dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life

• My Name Is Leon

  De Waal, Kit

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  A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one. Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. Evoking a Britain of the early eighties, My Name is Leon is a story of love, identity and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of the Boys

  a Novel

  Magariel, Daniel

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  An emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted, but no longer recognise

• Release

  Ness, Patrick, 1971-

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  Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, it seems as though Adam Thorn's life is falling apart

• The Sparsholt Affair

  Hollinghurst, Alan, 1954-

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  In 1940, Evert Dax and David Sparsholt, two young men from very different backgrounds, meet at Oxford University. Dax is a second year student reading English, coming from a rackety upper middle class background; Sparsholt is from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Setting Free the Kites

  George, Alex, 1970-

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  Robert Carter's life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous and fascinated by kites…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were the Lucky Ones

  Hunter, Georgia, 1978-

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  The Kurc family shouldn't have survived the Holocaust. In the spring of 1939 three generations are living relatively normal lives in Poland, despite the hardships Jews face. When war breaks out and the family is cast to the wind, the five…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The White Boy Shuffle

  Beatty, Paul, 1962-

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  Debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Card Catalog

  Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures

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  025.31 The Library of Congress brings an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cardinal

  the Rise and Fall of George Pell

  Milligan, Louise

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  282.092 As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, Pell's ascendancy within the clergy was remarkable and seemingly unstoppable. Australia's most prominent Catholic became the subject of a police investigation into allegations spanning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Industries of the Malvern Hills

  Great Hope of the Canterbury Province

  Maffey, Richard, 1957-

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  338.0993 Covers the exporation for mineral wealth; the development and demise of coal mining; pottery works; lime-burning and marble quarrying in the South Malvern area

• A Celebration of Beatrix Potter

  Art and Letters by More Than 30 of Today's Favorite Children's Book Illustrators

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  J 741.642 Illustrations, with text, of Potter's characters interpreted by well-known illustrators, to celebrate Beatrix Potter's 150 birthday

• Notes From the Margins

  the West Coast's Peter Hooper

  White, Pat, 1944-

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  828.914 The story of West Coast poet, author, teacher, bookseller and philosopher