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Move Like Water
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As a child growing up on the Pembrokeshire Coast in Wales, Hannah Stowe always loved the sea, ...
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London-based author and theater director Susie Boyt has written seven novels and the PEN Ackerley ...
Beyond the Door of No Return
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In early 19^th-century France, Aglaé's father Michel Adanson dies of old age. Sitting at ...
Crossings
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A subversive, powerful untelling of *Romeo and Juliet* by *New York Times* bestselling author Natasha Solomons.

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