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Room It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside. |
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The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the heat and with the secrets the country hides. 'The Memory of Love' is a tale of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, addressing the indelible effects of the past on our lives. |
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Grace Williams Says it Loud This isn't an ordinary love story. But then Grace isn't an ordinary girl. On her first day at the Briar Mental Institute, Grace meets Daniel. He sees someone to share secrets and canoodle with, someone to fight for. This is Grace's story: her life, its betrayals and triumphs, the disappointment and loss, the taste of freedom. |
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Great House by Nicole Krauss George Weisz has spent his entire life in the pursuit of a single aim: to recreate his father's study exactly as it was that evening in 1938 when the Nazis arrived and the family home was abandoned forever. 60 years later, one final piece of the puzzle remains to be found. And someone who he least suspects knows exactly where it is. |
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The Tiger's Wife Set in war-torn Yugoslavia, 'The Tiger's Wife' is a tale inspired by one woman's experience of the never-ending violence that swept the Balkans. |
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Annabel Born into the beautiful wilderness of north-eastern Canada, Wayne was raised as a boy despite not being born fully male nor female. But as Wayne grows, and as he becomes aware of the hyper-masculine culture of his family, his emotional demands to be a woman begin to cry out. |
