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Love Forms
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Adam, Claire

Love Forms / Claire Adam

London : Faber and Faber, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Love Forms / Claire Adam

Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 298 p. ; 23 cm

ISBN: 9780571339549

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

Nota:
  • The Booker Prize 2025, longlisted. -
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Abstract: Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl, and leaves her with nuns to be given up for adoption. Dawn tries to carry on with her life - a move to England, a marriage, a career, two sons, a divorce - but through it all, she still thinks of the child she had in Venezuela, and of what might have been. Then, forty years later, a woman from an internet forum gets in touch..

My friends
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Matar, Hisham

My friends / Hisham Matar

London : Viking, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: My friends / Hisham Matar

Pubblicazione: London : Viking, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 457 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9780241409497

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.

[Legacy of Orïsha].
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Adeyemi, Tomi

[Legacy of Orïsha].. [3]. Children of anguish and anarchy / Tomi Adeyemi

London : Macmillan, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: [Legacy of Orïsha].. [3]. Children of anguish and anarchy / Tomi Adeyemi

Pubblicazione: London : Macmillan, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 348 p. ; 22 cm

ISBN: 9781035044443

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in unknown lands..

The sirens
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Hart, Emilia

The sirens / Emilia Hart

London : The Borough Press, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: The sirens / Emilia Hart

Pubblicazione: London : The Borough Press, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 366 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9780008499136

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack ― but Jess is nowhere to be found.. 1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them ― and in her ― that no one else has.. 1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia..

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
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Díaz, Junot

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz

Paperback ed.

London : Faber and Faber, 2009

Titolo / Responsabilità: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz

Paperback ed.

Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2009

Descrizione fisica: 335 p. ; 20 cm

ISBN: 9780571239733

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

Nota:
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2008 -
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Abstract: Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.

After Annie
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Quindlen, Anna

After Annie : a novel / Anna Quindlen

New York : Random house, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: After Annie : a novel / Anna Quindlen

Pubblicazione: New York : Random house, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 285 p. ; 25 cm

ISBN: 9780593229804

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life.

Endling
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Reva, Maria

Endling / Maria Reva

London : Virago, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Endling / Maria Reva

Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 338 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9780349012711

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

Nota:
  • The Booker prize 2025, longlisted. -
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Abstract: Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country's forests and valleys, trying and failing to breed rare snails while her relatives urge her to settle down and start a family of her own. What they don't know: Yeva already dates plenty of men-not for love, but to fund her work-entertaining Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they'll find docile brides untainted by feminism.

These letters end in tears
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Xaviere, Musih Tedji

These letters end in tears : a novel / Musih Tedji Xaviere

New York : Catapult, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: These letters end in tears : a novel / Musih Tedji Xaviere

Pubblicazione: New York : Catapult, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 226 p. ; 22 cm

ISBN: 9781646221868

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on the soccer field—muscular and focused, she’s the only woman playing and seems completely at ease. When Fatima chases a rogue ball in her direction, Bessem freezes, mesmerized by the athlete’s charm and beauty. One playful wink from Fatima, and Bessem knows her life will never be the same.Despite an atmosphere of threat due to the criminalization of same-sex relationships in their home country of Cameroon, Fatima and Bessem persevere in living out their love. All seems to be going well, until a police raid at the only gay bar in town leads to Fatima’s disappearance.

The driver's seat
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Spark, Muriel

The driver's seat / Muriel Spark

London [etc.] : Penguin, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: The driver's seat / Muriel Spark

Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 117 p. ; 18 cm

ISBN: 9780241752036

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday ― in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination.

Wandering Stars
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Orange, Tommy

Wandering Stars / Tommy Orange

London : Harvill Secker, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: Wandering Stars / Tommy Orange

Pubblicazione: London : Harvill Secker, 2024

Descrizione fisica: [XV], 315 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9781787304550

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer.

Headshot
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Bullwinkel, Rita

Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel

London : Daunt Books, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel

Pubblicazione: London : Daunt Books, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 248 p. ; 20 cm

ISBN: 9781914198724

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.

Twist
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McCann, Colum

Twist / Colum McCann

London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Twist / Colum McCann

Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 239 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9781526656933

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence — words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses — travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth. Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world..

Lightning in a Mason Jar
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Mann, Catherine

Lightning in a Mason Jar : a Novel / Catherine Mann

Seattle : Lake Union, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Lightning in a Mason Jar : a Novel / Catherine Mann

Pubblicazione: Seattle : Lake Union, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 260 p. ; 22 cm

ISBN: 9781662525223

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Since Bailey Rae Rigby’s adoptive aunt Winnie passed, Bent Oak, South Carolina, doesn’t have much of a hold on her anymore. So it seems. Bailey Rae aims to settle the small estate and, armed with her aunt’s inspiring personal cookbook, buy a food truck with an ocean view in Myrtle Beach.

Flashlight
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Choi, Susan

Flashlight / Susan Choi

London : Jonathan Cape, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Flashlight / Susan Choi

Pubblicazione: London : Jonathan Cape, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 448 p. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9781787335127

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment from his American university. When Louisa wakes hours later, she has washed up on the beach and her father is missing, probably drowned.

Corregidora
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Jones, Gayl

Corregidora / Gayl Jones

Paperback ed.

London : Virago, 2019

Virago modern classics ; 708

Titolo / Responsabilità: Corregidora / Gayl Jones

Paperback ed.

Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 2019

Descrizione fisica: 195 p. ; 20 cm

Serie: Virago modern classics ; 708

ISBN: 9780349012148

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with ''making generations'' to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband.

Open, heaven
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Hewitt, Seán

Open, heaven / Seán Hewitt

London : Cape, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Open, heaven / Seán Hewitt

Pubblicazione: London : Cape, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 220 p. ; 23 cm

ISBN: 9781787335196

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex - threatens to unravel his shy exterior. Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic and impulsive, he has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger, but underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own..

Less than zero
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Ellis, Bret Easton

Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis

London : Picador, 2023

Titolo / Responsabilità: Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis

Pubblicazione: London : Picador, 2023

Descrizione fisica: XIII, 195 p. ; 20 cm

ISBN: 9781035012756

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

This is why we lied
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Slaughter, Karin

This is why we lied : a Will Trent thriller / Karin Slaughter

New York : William Morrow, 2024

Titolo / Responsabilità: This is why we lied : a Will Trent thriller / Karin Slaughter

Pubblicazione: New York : William Morrow, 2024

Descrizione fisica: 453 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

ISBN: 9780063385986

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

The Joy Luck Club
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Tan, Amy

The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan

London : Penguin, 2019

Titolo / Responsabilità: The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan

Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2019

Descrizione fisica: XVIII, 329 p. ; 21 cm

ISBN: 9780143038092

Data:2024

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money.

Black woods, blue sky
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Ivey, Eowyn

Black woods, blue sky / Eowyn Ivey

London : Tinder press, 2025

Titolo / Responsabilità: Black woods, blue sky / Eowyn Ivey

Pubblicazione: London : Tinder press, 2025

Descrizione fisica: 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

ISBN: 9781472279057

Data:2025

Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)

Paese: xx

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Abstract: Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.