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The Rainfall Market
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Yæong-gwang Yu
"If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose? On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market-where you can choose to completely change your life."
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Butter : a novel of food and murder
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Asako Yuzuki
After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins corresponding with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen and notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats.
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The City Of The Living
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Nicola Lagioia
Based on the true story of one of the most brutal crimes in recent Italian history, this hypnotic literary thriller recounts the murder of 23-year-old Luca Varani at the hands of two “ordinary” young men from good families, taking us into the darkest corners of contemporary Rome and of the human soul.
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Beautiful country : a memoir
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Qian Julie Wang
This memoir from a Chinese woman who arrived in New York City at age 7 examines how her family lived in poverty out of fear of being discovered as undocumented immigrants and how she was able to find success.
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The Deathwatch Beetle : a mystery
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Kjell Eriksson
Even though she is no longer with the police, when Ann Lindell receives a tip that Cecilia Karlsson, who disappeared four years ago from the island of Gräsö in Roslagen, has been seen alive, cannot help getting involved.
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The Woman In The Purple Skirt : a novel
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Natsuko Imamura
Exploring envy, loneliness, power dynamics and the vulnerability of unmarried women, this novel of suspense follows the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan as she becomes dangerously obsessed with the Woman in the Purple Skirt, whom she befriends in an attempt to get close to her.
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What I Know About You
by
Eric Chacour
"In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down...The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time?"
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Days At The Morisaki Bookshop : a novel
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Satoshi Yagisawa
After a young Japanese woman's life falls apart, she moves into a flat above her eccentric uncle's bookshop, staying rent-free in exchange for working at the store and developing a passion for Japanese literature.
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The Vegetarian : a novel
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Kang Han
Deciding to go vegetarian in the wake of violent thoughts, Yeong-hye, a woman from an Asian culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life.
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Outside
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Ragnar Jâonasson
Stranded by a snowstorm in the Icelandic highlands, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge where they discover they are not alone, and must come to terms with their past to survive to see their future.
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Crooked Plow : a novel
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Itamar Vieira Junior
"Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever."
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Tina, Mafia Soldier
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Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
Notorious for her cruelty and reckless disregard for societal expectations, gender-bending mafiosa Tina, after her latest crimes are published, becomes the subject of a writer, leading to obsession and violence until their first, and last, explosive meeting.
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The Silver Bone : a novel
by
Andreæi Kurkov
A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.
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Swimming In Paris : a life in three stories
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Colombe Schneck
Orchestrating a coming-of-age in three movements, this novel, through the eyes of the narrator, traces her decades-long personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love and swimming.
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Violeta : a novel
by
Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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The Enigma Of Room 622 : a novel
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Joèel Dicker
While at Hotel Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, Joël Dicker, Switzerland's novelist extraordinaire, finds his expertise in the art of the thriller put to the test when he investigates the hotel's long- unsolved murder case with the help of a beautiful fellow guest.
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Laura Esquivel
A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks.
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Bullet Train : a novel
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Kåotaråo Isaka
Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.
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