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The Bellini Madonna
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Elizabeth Lowry’s Thomas Joseph Lynch can hold his own among the best fictional characters. Do we like him? Do we hate him? Is he a trustworthy narrator, a lying blackguard or simply addled? Can we admire his perseverance and determination, or is he so compulsively obsessed that we want to write him off as a crackpot?
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The Earth Hums in B Flat
by Mari Strachan
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The Earth Hums in B Flat is a story of dark family secrets unraveled by the shrewd insight of twelve-year-old Gwenni Morgan, a child with an irrepressible spirit living in a Welsh village that is reluctantly entering the modern age. |
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Beijing Coma
by Ma Jian
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At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep rage, this extraordinary novel confirms his place as one of the world’s most significant living writers. |
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Wesley the Owl
by Stacey O'Brien
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When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. She give him a permanent home - and this is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together. |
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The London Eye Mystery
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When Salim mysteriously disappears from a sealed pod on the London Eye, everyone is frantic. Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, while time ticks dangerously by .... For ages 9+. |
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The Book of God and Physics
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Publishes: 05/01/2009.
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The fathers of astronomy and physics.
The Church that vowed to silence them.
A book no one can read. And the young man at the center, connecting them all.
In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been ...
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In my novel The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, Hud Smith, a hotel lounge singer, nightly performs autobiographical tales of marital woe, with titles such as "A Broken Heart and Crazy Glue," and "A Lovely Afternoon for a Crying Jag." Somehow his tunes ease into the heart of his ex-wife, Tuesday, in this melancholy romantic comedy. As the tone-deaf author, I promise not to sing to your book group. But I do enjoy the opportunity to talk about my work.
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Ma Jian
Ma Jian explains his reason for writing Beijing Coma:
"The Tiananmen tragedy was a defining moment in 20th Century history, but in China, no one is allowed to discuss it. Remembering has become a crime. Today, the Chinese are a people who ask no questions, and who have no past. They live as in a coma, blinded by fear and newfound prosperity ... I wanted to write a book that would bear witness to recent history and help reclaim a people's right to remember." |
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