And so I roar

Plucky fourteen-year-old Adunni is in Lagos, excited to finally enroll in school. But it's not so simple to run away from your past. On the night before she is due to join her new classmates, a terrible knocking at the front gate summons Adunni back to her home village, Ikati, where here dramatic story of resilience first began. There, Adunni must try to not only save herself but also tra…

Digital fortress

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer; Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician.

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

Olivetti

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks.

Before we forget kindness

The only period you can go back to the past is from the moment the cup is filled with coffee until it gets completely cold. Is that clear?

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…