The river is waiting

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindnes…

The plague

The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.

Tales from the Odyssey, Part One

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ISBN/ISSN

9781423128649

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273 p. ; ill. ; 18 cm

Series Title

Tales from the odyssey

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823 OSB t

Human Acts

A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian. In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, den…

The Hiddenseek

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ISBN/ISSN

9781984816764

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823 CER h

All the lovers in the night

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a dra…

The good turn

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ISBN/ISSN

9780241523599

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823 JAC g

Piranesi

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to expl…

The Wind in the Willows

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ISBN/ISSN

9780141385679

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823 GRA w

Dark Waters

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ISBN/ISSN

9780593109175

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Call Number

823 ARD d