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Old Babes in the Woods

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  • Currently 5/5

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.

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Old Babes in the Woods

Are You Happy Now?

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  • Currently 3/5

At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy.

And then the world begins to end. The four of them watch as one of the wedding guests sits down and...

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Are You Happy Now?

Best of Friends

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  • Currently 5/5

Best of Friends is a novel about Britain today, about power and how we use it, and about what we owe to those who've loved us the longest.

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Best of Friends

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

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  • Currently 5/5

ONE QUESTION.

ONE CHOICE.

NINE PATHS TO THE REST OF HER LIFE…

One day, Rose Napolitano’s marriage ends.

One day, Rose Napolitano’s marriage survives.

One day.

One fight.

Nine...

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The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

What Strange Paradise

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  • Currently 5/5

What Strange Paradise is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair – and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us...

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What Strange Paradise

Songbirds

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  • Currently 5/5

"Songbirds is a story migration and crossing borders: it is about searching for freedom, for a better life, only to find oneself trapped. It is a story about the way in which systemic racism...

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Songbirds

King of Rabbits

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  • Currently 4/5

Karla Neblett has created a vivid language that is both crafted and raw to tell a story of class, race and how our society fails working class young men.

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King of Rabbits

Notes on a Nervous Planet

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  • Currently 4/5

The follow-up to the number one bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive. The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news, social media,...

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Notes on a Nervous Planet

Dancing in the Mosque

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  • Currently 5/5

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

How far would you go to protect yourself? Your...

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Wish We Knew What to Say

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  • Currently 3/5

Wish We Knew What to Say will help all parents, carers and educators give children the tools and vocabulary to talk about people's differences and similarities in an open, non-judgemental,...

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Wish We Knew What to Say

Just Like You

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  • Currently 4/5

The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster.

Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You...

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Just Like You

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

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  • Currently 4.5/5

I'll Be Gone in the Dark offers a unique snapshot of suburban West Coast America in the 1980s, and a chilling account of the wreckage left behind by a criminal mastermind. It is also a portrait...

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark

The Handmaid’s Tale

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Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.

Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new...

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The Handmaid’s Tale

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

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  • Currently 4.8/5

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World focuses on the life of Leila. When the reader is first introduced to her, she has just been murdered and her body is lying in a dumpster. Leila is aware she...

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
 
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