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1) Quarantine
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Jim Crace's novel is the brilliantly imagined story of Christ's forty days in the wilderness, a tale of three men, two women, and a curious wanderer whose peculiar fate is transformed into legend. Dazzling, gritty, and utterly compelling, Quarantine is a work at once timeless and timely, a parable for the ages.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A prize of 100,000 florins awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a deadly competition. Set in 17th-century Holland, this historical novel by the author of The Three Musketeers forms a timeless political allegory inwhich the rare flower represents the triumph of justice, tolerance, and true love over greed, jealousy, and obsession"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history, marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellions and ending in the demise of the Ch'ing Dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power wielded by one woman, the resilient, ever-resourceful Tsu Hsi -- or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min's critically acclaimed, best-selling novel covering her rise to power....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
6) My men
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Norwegian maid Belle Gunness, 19th-century America's most notorious serial killer with a body count of at least 14 men. My Men is a fictional account of one broken woman's descent into inescapable madness"--
Author
Series
The Josephine B. trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Scribner Pbk. Fiction ed.
Language
English
12) Freshwater
Author
Language
English
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Description
Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side." Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Isabella of Castile, the intelligent and fiery Spanish queen best remembered today for funding the voyages of Christopher Columbus, begins this historical novel as a mere pawn in the decadent court of her weak older brother."--Library Journal.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A commoner elevated to royalty, Queen Jindan, when her husband dies, leaving her 6-year-old son to inherit the throne, defies tradition to transform herself into a warrior ruler, determined to protect her people and son's birthright from the encroachingBritish Empire"--
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
A novel based on the life of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, once the most powerful drug lord in Mexico, reveals the secrets no one dared discuss before his death while undergoing plastic surgery to disguise his appearance and avoid arrest.
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr. Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle. He'd tell me what pile to put it on and sometimes he'd pause, cover my hand with his, and guide my finger up and down and around...
18) Watch us dance
Author
Series
In the country of others volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny and In the Country of Others"--
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