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The Colonial Hotel
By Jonathan Bennett. 2014
A doctor named Paris follows a nurse to a country on the brink of civil war. When a confrontation does…
break out, they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. The nurse, Helen, is pregnant; she escapes, but Paris is left behind, imprisoned by rebels as war rages. A narrative of brutal power about parental bonds, forgiveness, and identity, "The Colonial Hotel" recasts for the 21st century the ancient Greek story of Paris, Helen, and Oenone. 2014.The Danish girl: a novel
By David Ebershoff. 2010
The Debba
By Avner Mandelman. 2010
1977. David Starkman returns from self-imposed exile in Canada to his native Israel after learning of the murder of his…
war hero father, Isser. Isser's will includes an unusual provision - that within 45 days, a controversial play he'd written, 'The Debba', be staged. David, who once belonged to an elite Israeli army unit, decides to fulfill his father's request, while searching for clues to solve the murder. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel. 2010.The coroner's lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Colin Cotterill. 2004
Dr. Siri Paiboun, the Laotian chief medical examiner, has his tedious job turned upside down when the wife of a…
party leader turns up dead and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers are discovered. Faced with dueling cover-ups and an emerging international crisis, the doctor enlists old friends to solve the crimes. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. Descriptions of violence. 2004.The crimes of Hector Tomás
By Ian Colford, Robyn Read. 2012
Enrique Tomás lives a quiet life with a large, loving family in an unnamed South American country. But Enrique has…
secrets. When his second eldest son, Hector, and Hector’s beloved friend Nadia uncover one of Enrique’s secrets, the course of Hector’s life is irrevocably altered. Exiled by his parents to the isolated countryside, Hector is accused of terrorism—a crime for which he is innocent, yet ruthlessly punished. As he tries desperately to extricate himself from the violence perpetrated by a brutal political regime, he realizes that freedom can only come at a terrible price. 2012.The city still breathing
By Matthew Heiti. 2013
A body is found on the side of a highway. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back…
of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people. These eleven people are all damaged in some way, and eventually are brought together in a strange moment of violence. 2013.The city man
By Howard Akler. 2005
1934. With Toronto stalled in the Great Depression, Mona Kantor makes a living as a pickpocket, while reporter Eli Morenz…
struggles to wring news stories out of the subdued city. When a chance photo drives Eli into the Jewish underworld that Mona inhabits, he finds he's stumbled onto the story of his life. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 2005.The dying poem
By Robert Budde. 2002
Jay Post, a hapless filmmaker, is hired to make a documentary about late poet Henry Black. To do so, he…
must unravel the threads of Henry's suicide-obsessed mind. As tools, he has only Black's poems and the addresses of two lovers. 2002.The dark flood rises
By Margaret Drabble. 2017
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks…
with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel. 2017.The days of abandonment
By Elena Ferrante. 2015
The gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband, with two young children…
to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal. 2015. Uniform title: Giorni dell'abbandono.The doubter's almanac: a novel
By Ethan Canin. 2016
Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even…
eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the century's most brilliant thinkers forms the backbone of a sweeping, epic story about family, love, passion, and Milo's fraught relationship with his son. Bestseller. 2016.The Devil and Webster
By Jean Hanff Korelitz. 2017
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before…
the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus. 2017.The crying of lot 49
By Thomas Pynchon. 2005
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to…
know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs. Pierce, however, did not intend for the job to be an easy one for Oedipa, and soon she becomes ensnared in a surreal, hilarious, and puzzling world-wide conspiracy centred around Pierce's strange business partners and dealings. 2005.The Elizabeth stories
By Isabel Huggan. 1984
A series of stories linked by a girl growing up in a small town. In "Jack of hearts", Elizabeth is…
cast in a male role for a ballet recital, and in "Sorrows of the flesh", a crush on the science teacher turns sour when he is exposed as a wife beater. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1984.The elixir of youth
By Gillian Bradshaw. 2006
Alison Greenall's father walked out when she was a baby, and eighteen years later, she suddenly receives an invitation to…
the lab of her father's successful biotech company. Upon arriving, Alison learns that it has been broken into by pro-life activists who oppose stem-cell research. The activists also stole a mysterious anti-aging serum, leading Alison to wonder what her father is really up to. Some strong language. 2006.The electrical field
By Kerri Sakamoto. 1998
The Elephant Man
By Frederick Drimmer. 1985
The emperor's bones
By Adam Williams. 2005
Catherine Cabot arrives in China, trying to uncover the truth of her past. Against an uneasy political background, a love…
triangle develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2005.The emperor's babe: a novel
By Bernardine Evaristo. 2001
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.The eleventh commandment: A Novel
By Jeffrey Archer. 1998
Connor Fitzgerald has worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years, although his family thinks he works for Maryland Insurance. Now…
his boss, Helen Dexter, is out to destroy him. After Connor manages to eliminate a Colombian presidential candidate, he is sent to Russia--supposedly at the president's request--to assassinate a candidate there. But Connor is the one scheduled to die. 1998.