Illywhacker by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered.--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: very good
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more
Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell; Martí Joan de Galba
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First published in the Catalan language in Valencia in 1490, Tirant lo Blanc (The White Tyrant) is a sweeping epic of chivalry and high adventure. With great precision and verve, Martorell narrates land and sea battles, duels, hunts, banquets, political maneuverings, and romantic conquests. Reviewing th ...Show more
Sula by Toni Morrison
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: Adult
"As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. SULA is the story of the fear that makes people accept self- ...Show more
Dream More Luminous Than Love by RODNEY HALL
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Going into a Dark House by Jane Gardam
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'Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...' A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian photographer go about his business. They sa ...Show more
Arabian Nights and Days by NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
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The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
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Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthy South London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unsolicited advice under the door. It is just such ...Show more