Bertie Plays the Blues (44 Scotland Street #7) by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: General | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of ...Show more
Emerald City and Other Stories by Jennifer Egan
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Category: General
From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad. These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, ar ...Show more
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
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Category: General
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with his signature combination of gripping, emotionally resonant storytelling and love overcoming all odds. After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he exp ...Show more
True: a Novel by Riikka Pulkkinen
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Category: General
It's the start of a luminous Scandinavian summer, and Elsa the matriarch of an eminent Helsinki family, is dying. Her family members gather around to support her, but their hidden struggles come, too. There's Elsa's granddaughter Anna, lost in her own world and concealing an unhappy affair that will not ...Show more
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save ...Show more
The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to face i ...Show more
Park Lane by Frances Osborne
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Category: General
London, February 1914. Eighteen year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London from Carlisle, her family's hopes pinned on her becoming a secretary. The only job she can find is as a housemaid in the mansion that is Number 35, Park Lane, and soon she is entangling herself in an ever-thickening web of lies. U ...Show more
The Truth by Michael Palin
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Category: General
Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian - he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search to find out the real story behind the leg ...Show more
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom
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Category: General
InThe Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a new collection of Roald Dahl stories, all on a theme of country matters; they will all feature those wily characters Claud, Rummins and Bert, who appeared so memorably in Dahl's famous story, parson's pleasure. There will be seven stories in the book, including one ("Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" ...Show more
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, the old reprobate from "Switch Bitch", is connoisseur, bon vivant, collector of spiders, scorpions, odd walking sticks, lover of opera, expert on Chinese porcelain, and without doubt the greatest fornicator of all time. This title reveals how Uncle Oswald first achieved great ...Show more