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March 30
Nominated for 2009 NAACP Image Award
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The book of night women
Marlon James · Riverhead Trade; Reprint edition
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Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting... |
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April 27
1938 National Book Award
This is a classic read in conjunction with Anaheim Muzeo's Downton Abbey exhibit, on display through May 7th.
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · Avon Books
Pages: 410
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With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every... |
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May 25
2012 Nordic Council Literature Prize
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Days in the History of Silence
Merethe Lindstrom · Other Press
Format: Paperback |
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From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher,... |
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