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Things fall apart

Achebe, Chinua2001
First published in 1958, this is the story of a "strong" man whose life is dominated by fear and anger. It is also a social document, recounting the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the life of an African tribe - the Ibo - in turn-of-the-century Nigeria.
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As I lay dying

Faulkner, William, 1897-19622004
The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart off the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.
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The Da Vinci code

Brown, Dan, 1964-2004
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Soph...
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Água viva

Lispector, Clarice2014
In Água Viva, Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers, including one Bra...
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The sword of Kaigen : a Theonite war story

Wang, M. L.2018
"On a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful fighters in the world, warriors capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For centuries, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay, earning their treacherous spit of land ...
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List view record 7: Ataḍē oka samudraṃ : Di ōlḍ myān aṇḍ da sīList view anchor tag for record 7: Ataḍē oka samudraṃ : Di ōlḍ myān aṇḍ da sī
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The most fun we ever had

Lombardo, Claire, 1988-2020
When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-...
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