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Quick view The Road by Cormac McCarthy At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of... View Details
Quick view The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the... View Details
Quick view The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry At the beginning of her last summer in Kentucky before leaving for college, Natalie is once again visited by the apparition she calls "Grandmother" and meets a new boy, Beau, who changes her life. View Details
Quick view The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping the Commander makes her pregnant, because she is... View Details
Quick view The Guernsey Library and the Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as... View Details
Quick view The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy In this tale set in Kerala in southern India in 1969, the lives of twins Rahel and Esthappen are changed forever when their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit. View Details
Quick view The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. View Details
Quick view The Fight by L Divine Sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson is nobody's fool. What she doesn't know is how to play the game at South Bay High, a.k.a. Drama High, a white school in Los Angeles where the kids keep looking at Jayd like she's going to steal one of their rides. View Details
Quick view The English Patient by Michael Ondaajte As it traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of WWII, Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel introduces readers to some of the most fully realized characters in any recent work of fiction. A disturbing and... View Details
