The story collector

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780008706678

Collation

372 p. ; 19 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 WOO t

Night watch

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, …

My friends: a novel

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781982112820

Collation

436 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 BAC m

A man called ove

All you need is Ove. At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet, a curmudgeon with staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People think him bitter, and he thinks himself surrounded by idiots. Ove's well-ordered, solitary world gets a shake-up one November morning with the appearance of new neighbors, a chatty young couple and their two bois…

The life impossible

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could ha…

Held

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a…

Satantango

In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns, the villagers fall under his spell. Irimias sets about swindling the villagers out of a fortune that might al…

Giovanni's room

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141032948

Collation

149 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 BAL g

East of eden

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141185071

Collation

601 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 STE e

The wedding people

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781399622752

Collation

363 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 ESP t