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The High Mountains of Portugal: A Novel

Yann Martel · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Pack your bags: Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel's...
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The Year of the Runaways: A novel

Sunjeev Sahota · Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeThe Guardian: The Best Novels of 2015The Independent: Literary Fiction of the Year 2015From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota - a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical...
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The Summer Before the War: A Novel

Helen Simonson · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love and war that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set. East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never...
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Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad.Published in 2010,...
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