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The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture depicts the journals of Roseanne, a 100-year-old woman who has spent the better part of her life in a mental hospital. Sharing the narrative with her closest companion, Doctor Grene, Barry illustrates two individuals striving to understand a slowly emerging but difficult past. Scripture follows three other works of fiction, including A Long Long Way which was long-listed for the Booker in 2005 and selected for Dublin's 2007 One City Book Event.
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
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Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel about a boy living in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard but if he leaves he will come under attack from the man who has already killed his family. 2009 Newbery Award winner.
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
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In Outliers Malcolm Gladwell shows us the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great football player, why Asians are good at maths, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Ian Stewart
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An entertaining book of mathematical oddities, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years. There are beguiling discoveries about familiar names and concepts like Pythagoras, prime numbers, and permutations as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professor's cabinet and marvel at the puzzles, secrets and enigmas you'll find in them...
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere.
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates
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The story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple who have lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves. The film adaption is nominated for four Academy Awards.
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
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Set in postwar Germany, The Reader is a provocative, morally challenging, and deeply moving novel about a young boy's erotic awakening in a clandestine love affair with a mysterious older woman. Falling ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. For a time, the two become passionate lovers. Then, one day, Hanna disappears without a word. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael recognizes his former lover on the stand, accused of a hideous crime.
Just After Sunset
Stephen King
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Just After Sunset — call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King. This new collection of short stories from the head honcho of horror will have you sleeping with the lights on - and one eye open.
