The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
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A "marvelous" novel about a woman's psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review). Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain age--and the crisis that goes along with it. She has a career as a successful journalist, specializing in feminist iss ...Show more
The Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble
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An archaeologist struggles to unearth her own true passions in the "richest, most absorbing novel" by the author of The Dark Flood Rises (Joyce Carol Oates). Frances Wingate is one of England's most renowned archaeologists, having recently discovered a lost city in the Saharan desert. On the outside, sh ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
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Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
Boiling A Frog by CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
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Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
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Married to Helen, but tangled up with Binny, Edward understands, with a tender pang, how Binny has been denied those small intimacles that a wife takes for granted. Choosing a brithday present for his sister, for example, or washing his socks. Tonight, as a treat for Binny, the lovers are throwing their ...Show more
Z - A NOVEL OF ZELDA FITZGERALD by THERESE ANNE FOWLER
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
'I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined...Look closer, and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.' When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seve ...Show more
East of the Mountains by DAVID GUTERSON
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A man plans a final journey into the Western wilderness in this "wonderful" novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars (The Miami Herald). Mid-October is harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently ...Show more
Brother to Dragons by David Hartnett
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On Good Friday 1914, Beatrice Lumley arrives at a village under the Sussex Downs to take up a teaching post in the local school. Three figures dominate this world: Eric Wren; Charles Tremain; and Maud Egerton. It is Beatrice's fate to meet, love and eventually lose them all.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, espec ...Show more