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by Simon Mawer
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012

Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate...
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Galore

A Novel

by Michael Crummey
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award When a whale beaches...
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by Michel Laub
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that will break your heart At the narrator’s elite Jewish school in a posh suburb of Porte Alegre, a cruel prank leaves the only Catholic student there terribly injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he...
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Tightrope

A Novel

by Simon Mawer
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015

**From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape...
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Prague Spring

A Novel

by Simon Mawer
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students...
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by Yuri Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Yuri Herrera’s novel, a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Bolaño and Chandler, is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to the bodies that violence touches.
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Article 353

A Novel

by Tanguy Viel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice. In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec...
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This House is Haunted

A Novel by the Author of The Heart's Invisible Furies

by John Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during...
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In Her Absence

A Novel

by Antonio Munoz Molina
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

"[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous." —Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives....
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Utopia Parkway

The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell

by Deborah Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

**Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised text   ** Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius...
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Fromms

How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis

by Gotz Aly, Michael Sontheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

If you wanted to buy a top-quality condom in prewar Germany, you bought Fromms Act, the first brand name condom and still a leading brand in the German market. The man behind this "pure German quality product" was Julius Fromm, a Jewish entrepreneur who had immigrated from Russia as a child....
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Climates

A Novel

by Andre Maurois
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012

Written in 1928 by French biographer and novelist Andre Maurois, Climates became a best seller in France and all over Europe. The first 100,000 copies printed of its Russian translation sold out the day they appeared in Moscow bookstores. This magnificently written novel about a double conjugal failure...
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by Ivan Vladislavic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits,...
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High

Confession of an International Drug Smuggler

by Brian O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009

In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and...
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