Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha by Roddy Doyle
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Winner of the 1993 Booker PrizeRoddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy wh ...Show more
The Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
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Category: Literary Fiction
One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a h ...Show more
The Girls by Emma Cline
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
California. The summer of 1969. In the dying days of a floundering counter-culture a young girl is unwittingly caught up in unthinkable violence, and a decision made at this moment, on the cusp of adulthood, will shape her life..."This book will break your heart and blow your mind." (Lena Dunham). Evie ...Show more
Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer
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Felix Morsom has made a decent living as an author. Though his novels no longer hit the bestseller lists, he has been described as the Chekhov of Coldsands-on-Sea, and once was even shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Were it not for the delicious Brenda Bodkin, his publicist, and their endlessly unconsum ...Show more
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
While reporting from India, a journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness it. In Boston a surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housek ...Show more
STANLEY AND THE WOMEN by KINGSLEY AMIS
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The Glory by Herman Wouk
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In The Hope, world-famed historical novelist Herman Wouk told the riveting saga of the first twenty years of Israel's existence, culminating in its resounding triumph in the Six-Day War, which amazed the world as few events of this turbulent century have. With The Glory, Wouk rejoins the story of Israel ...Show more
A Hole in TexasA Novel by Herman Wouk
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"Guy Carpenter has a pretigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and, aside from a troublemaking cat, a settled, quiet life. But things take an unexpected turn when this regular guy finds himself mixed up in an international scandal of enormous proportions." "Years ago, Guy worked on the Superc ...Show more
Nothing on Earth by Conor O'Callaghan
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Category: Literary Fiction
"Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying". (Donal Ryan, author of THE SPINNING HEART). It was a time when nobody called. Early evening, the hottest August in living memory. A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again. She ...Show more