Three Souls by Janie Chang

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: P.S.

An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this.... So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. Beside her are three souls—stern and scholarly yang; impulsive, romantic yin; and wise, shining hun—who will guide her toward understanding. She must, they tell her, make amends. As Leiyin delves back in time with the three souls to review her life, she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was, a girl who is concerned with her own desires while China is fractured by civil war and social upheaval. At a party, she meets Hanchin, a captivating left-wing poet and translator, and instantly falls in love with him. When Leiyin defies her father to pursue Hanchin, she learns the harsh truth—that she is powerless over her fate. Her punishment for disobedience leads to exile, an unwanted marriage, a pregnancy, and, ultimately, her death. And when she discovers what she must do to be released from limbo into the afterlife, Leiyin realizes that the time for making amends is shorter than she thought. Suffused with history and literature, Three Souls is an epic tale of revenge and betrayal, forbidden love, and the price we are willing to pay for freedom. ...Show more

Small Island by Andrea Levy

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, as well as many other awards, Andrea Levy's SMALL ISLAND is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war and love. It has now been adapted into a major BBC TV drama. It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern S treet, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was... ...Show more

THE TATOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by HEATHER MORRIS

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Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson

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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction

A stunning, powerfully moving novel of faith and humanity, temptation and transgression from literary tour de force, A.N. Wilson. 'It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn.' - ScotsmanOn The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unha ppy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples tear down houses, forge bonds, and shake the foundations of humanity and religion. And in the midst of it all, Nellie and Ingrid fall in love.In Aftershocks A. N. Wilson offers a portrait of nature, death and morality. Moved by the real losses of the Christchurch earthquake, this is an extraordinary novel about a community profoundly linked to the land it lives on. ...Show more

Middle England by Jonathan Coe

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Category: Literary Fiction

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage daughter who will stop at nothing in her quest for social justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote in the European referendum. And within all these lives is the story of modern England- a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage. Following in the footsteps of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe's new novel is the novel for our strange new times. ...Show more

THE NEW YORK TRILOGY by PAUL AUSTER

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Bats Out of Hell by Barry Hannah

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Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war -- the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. Barry Hannah's reputation as a master of the short story, first established in 1978 with the publication of Airships, is magnified in this volatile, long-a waited collection of new stories. Astonishing in range and in the portrayal of the human heart, these fierce and radar-perfect stories give us individuals with whom hilarity and pain combine with true and startling clarity. ...Show more

The Tennis Handsome by Barry Hannah

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Voices of the South Ser.

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Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson

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A compelling family saga covers the lives of 3 generations as Sweden emerges from its rural past into the modern world. Anna, Hanna and Johanna, which sets her thinking about her Grandmother Hanna, born in 1871 in the bad old days in Sweden's far north where rural poverty was widespread and women were r egarded as 2nd class. We then follow Hanna's life aftre an appalling chldhood: raped at 13 by a cousin, she gives birth to a son and later marries a kindly widowed miller who adopts the boy. Hanna bears 3 more sons, followed by Johanna. After the miller dies, Hanna and Johanna move south to Gothenburg where Hanna, a born survivor lives to be 90. The novel's middle section returns to the present day and Anna, a professional woman with daughters of her own, separated from her husband. Anna looks back on her own life and that of her mother and long since dead Grandmother and begins to understand more of their lives, their menfolk, their joys and disasters - the thread throughout a striving for some kind of freedom in women's lives. The novel's final section is Johanna's story, the bridge between the old and the new, the 1 who is able to look both forward and back. Johanna becomes politically aware and enters into a strong but violent marriage. At the novels end, Anna and her husband are reunited and move house, with the old sofa that the miller 1st brought to Varmland when he married Hanna. ...Show more

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

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A man travels the length and breadth of China, collecting stories, folk songs, lovers and experience in a search for meaning. Soul Mountain is a novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a culture as vast and fascinating as the history of hu mankind itself. It is both fictionalised autobiography and documentation of the author ...Show more

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

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Winner of the the Orange Prize for fiction 2010. The Lacuna is the story of a manic's search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of w ords to create or devastate. Like no other novel yet written, it illuminates an era when bold internationalism gave way to a post-war landscape of narrowly defined 'Americanism'. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the colour red, The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World itself. ...Show more

IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES by TIM PEARS

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