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• Angel Down

  Kraus, Daniel, 1975-

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  Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zone

  Énard, Mathias, 1972-

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  Francis Mirkovic, a French born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is travelling by train from Milan to Rome. With him he has a briefcase, whose contents he is selling to a representative of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ducks, Newburyport

  Ellmann, Lucy, 1956-

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  Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solar Bones

  McCormack, Mike, 1965-

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  On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Abductions

  a Novel

  Cardenas, Mauro Javier,

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  American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans-regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Elephant's Journey

  Saramago, José

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  The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth-century Europe, based on a true story.

• The Autumn of the Patriarch

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014,

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  The discovery of a South American dictator's rotting corpse in the deserted tangle of his crumbling palace prompts a search through his past and a chronicle of his progression from popular, beloved, unafraid ruler to isolated, frightened despot.

• The Infinite Plan

  A Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man's search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Waves

  Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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  Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from…Read moreRead more of this annotation