Archive for the ‘New fiction’ Category
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 - nadine
The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret
PJ5054.K375 A23 2004
Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2012 - nadine
Scenes From Early Life : a novel by Philip Hensher
PR6058.E554 S34 2012
Philip Hensher’s husband, Zaved Mahmood, was born in late 1970 in Dacca, then a regional capital of Pakistan. In the months following his birth, the eastern part of the country split from the western side in a war of independence ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012 - nadine
Toby's Room by Pat Barker
PR6052.A6488 T63 2012
One day in 1917, Elinor has a sudden premonition that Toby will not return from France. Three weeks later the family receives a telegram informing them that Toby is “Missing, Believed Killed” in Ypres. However, there is no body, and Elinor refuses to accept ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012 - Amy Watts
The Sandcastle Girls : A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
Main Library: PS3552.O495 S26 2012
Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a homebirth ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Triburbia: a novel by Karl Taro Greenfeld
PS3607.R4536 T75 2012
Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers—a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a chef, a memoirist, a gangster—meets each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children to their exclusive school.
The sound engineer looks uncomfortably like ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2012 - Amy Watts
Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
translated by Franklin Lewis
PK6561.P47 C5413 2012
Clarisse Ayvazian is the model 1960s wife and mother. She leads an unremarkable life with her well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood of Abadan.
But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival of ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 - Amy Watts
The Raising: A novel by Laura Kasischke
PS3561.A6993 R35 2011
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving, remarkably—some say ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Practical Jean: a novel by Trevor Cole
PR9199.4.C646 P73 2010
This eagerly awaited new novel from Trevor Cole combines the humour and sharp observations of contemporary life that he is known for with an irresistibly twisted premise, for fans of the quirkily macabre Six Feet Under and Dexter, and readers of Paul Quarrington, Miriam Toews, ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 - Amy Watts
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
PR6068.E25 M57 2010
Jomier broods. He broods about the present. He broods about the past. He types his gloomy thoughts onto his computer screen - a digital journal. When he has nothing more to say about the present, he returns to the past, copying entries from ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 - Amy Watts
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
PR6062.I89 H69 2012
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an ...
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