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Burma Sahib – Paul Theroux

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In 1922 an 18-year-old Eric Blair, provisional police officer in the Indian Police went off to Burma. His four year…

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The House of Doors – Tan Twan Eng

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Eng brings to life the languid last days of the British Empire in South Asia by spinning a very elaborate…

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The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden

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In 1961 Holland, Isabel, an extremely repressed and ignorant 30 year-old, seems destined to become a spinster. She lives alone…

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My Friends – Hisham Matar

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A moving study of friendship and exile during the reign of Qaddafi. Khalid, a student from Benghazi, obtains a scholarship…

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Galore – Michael Crummey

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The great Newfoundland storyteller has produced stories galore in this excellent saga spanning two centuries and five generations of feuding…

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The Curse of Pietro Houdini – Derek B. Miller

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The Abbey of Montecassino, founded in 529 A.D. by St. Benedict and pulverized by the advancing Allied invasion of Italy…

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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession – Michael Finkel

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What a strange addiction—to be so overwhelmed by a piece of art that you would do anything to possess it—or…

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South – Mario Fortunato

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In this memoir-like novel with overtones of War and Peace and Proust the author has laid out the history of…

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The Last Ranger – Peter Heller

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Featuring Enforcement Ranger Ben Hopper, Heller takes us on another rough guided tour in one of Yellowstone Park. In this…

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The Lock-Up – John Banville

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Banville’s captivating prose recreates Irish life in the late 1950s with focus on the death of a young Jewish woman…

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