This breathtaking saga, set in the 1990s, tells the story of the landlords and tenants of a derelict canning factory in southern Portugal.
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Author:Jorge, Lídia
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Author:Joella, Ethan
Summary:From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways.
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Author:Lott, Tim.
Summary:Winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award 'Beautiful and brilliant' Tony Parsons Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd's Bush - as 'Fra
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Author:Wagamese, Richard
Summary:Four chronically homeless people -- Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger -- seek refuge in a warm movie theater when a severe Arctic front descends on the city.
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Author:Welch, James
Summary:A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Was
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Author:Otsuka, Julie
Summary:From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack app
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Author:Orange, Tommy
Summary:"Groundbreaking. Extraordinary.
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Author:McCabe, Pat
Summary:A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on PlutoUna Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all a
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Author:Friesen, Bernice
Summary:Universal Disorder is about a young boy growing up on the Canadian Prairies in the 1970s and 1980s; he has developmental disorders -- is on the autism spectrum and has OCD -- and finds solace in th
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Author:Georges, Karoline
Summary:'In this singular story dedicated to the mother, the narrator creates an avatar to counter her pain of living.
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Author:Barbeau-Lavalette, Anaïs
Summary:The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Kevin lives in 62.
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Author:Shteyngart, Gary
Summary:"A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful abou
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Author:Sloan, Robin
Summary:In his much-anticipated new audiobook, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr.
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Author:Mandel, Emily St. John
Summary:One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve.
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Author:Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
Summary:Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community.
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