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The bone season
The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign againts unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, whe commits treson simply by breathing.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526664754
- Collation
- 599 p. ; 19,5 cm
- Series Title
- The Bone Season (#1)
- Call Number
- 823 SHA t
There are rivers in the sky
This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. A dazzling feat of storytelling from one of the greatest writers of our time, Elif Shafak's "There are Rivers in the Sky" is a rich, sweeping novel that spans centuries, continents and cultures, entwined by rivers, rains, and waterdrops.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780241988749
- Collation
- 482 p. ; 20 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 SHA t
The island of missing trees
In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek, and Defne who is Turkish, can meet in secret, hidden beneath the leaves of a fig tree growing through the roof of the tavern. This tree will witness their hushed happy meetings, and will be there when the war breaks out and th…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780241988725
- Collation
- 355 p. ; 20 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 SHA t
The empusium
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, dis…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780593949221
- Collation
- 400 p. ; 23,5 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 TOK t
Poetry 101: From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Ver…
Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not—especially in social media—with its focus on brevity and creating the greatest possible impact with the fewest words. Poetry 101 is your companion to the wonderful world of meter and rhyme, and walks you through the ba…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781507208397
- Collation
- 256 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808 DAL p
Yellowface
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780063250833
- Collation
- 323 p. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 KUA y
I who have never known men
‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberl…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781529111798
- Collation
- 190 p. ; 19,5 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 823 HAR i
Small things like these
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him ― and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780571368709
- Collation
- 116 p. ; 20 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 KEE s
Greek lessons
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-yea…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780241997062
- Collation
- 147 p. ; 19,5 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 KAN g
Never let me go
One of the New York Time's 10 best books of the 21st century
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780571390878
- Collation
- 343 p. ; 19,5 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 ISH n
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