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• The Sound of Things Falling

  Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973-

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  No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collector of Dying Breaths

  a Novel of Suspense

  Rose, M. J., 1953-

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  In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer. To repay his debt, over the years Rene; le Florentine is occasionally called upon to put his vast knowledge to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Thieves

  a Novel

  Benioff, David

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  Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.,

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  As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grist Mill Road

  a Novel

  Yates, Christopher J,

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  Grist Mill Road is a dark and twisty Rashomon-style narrative which is expertly plotted. The year is 1982, the setting an Edenic hamlet some 90 miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Goldfinch

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  Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cider House Rules

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  Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Dr. Larch, who also provides medically safe, if illegal, abortions, runs the orphanage. Homer is Dr. Larch's favorite, and over the years, Dr. Larch trains Homer as his successor.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Madam Secretary

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  This gripping political thriller follows Madam Secretary, Dr. Elizabeth McCord as she navigates the maze of politics to protect America and affect global issues.

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