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  • The mimic men
    Author:
    Naipaul, V. S.
    Summary:

    The Mimic Men is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and has won many prizes including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan
    Author:
    Hough, Robert
    Summary:

    The Sisters Brothers meets Master and Commander in Robert Hough’s rollicking and raucous new historical novel.The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in London for illegal gaming. Deported to...
  • The girl from Botany Bay
    Author:
    Erickson, Carolly
    Summary:

    Historian Carolly Erickson has brought Mary's story to life, illuminating the horrors of transportation and the hardships of the early penal settlement, and describing in the extraordinary story of her escape in an open boat from...
  • The endless steppe
    Author:
    Hautzig, Esther Rudomin
    Summary:

    During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the...
  • The city in the middle of the night
    Author:
    Anders, Charlie Jane
    Summary:

    "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless...
  • The Blacks of Cape Town A Novel
    Author:
    Davids, C. A.
    Summary:

    Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with her grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before ultimately changing his...
  • One man dancing
    Author:
    Keeney, Patricia
    Summary:

    One Man Dancing is based on the true story of a young Ugandan actor-dancer growing into artistic maturity during the murderous regime of dictator Idi Amin. It follows Charles from his youth in Uganda’s colonial villages, and...
  • Once a rebel
    Author:
    Putney, Mary Jo
    Summary:

    "Putney's endearing characters and warm-hearted stories never fail to inspire and delight." -Sabrina Jeffries A ROGUE REDEEMED As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted...
  • Above: Broken Sky Chronicles # 2
    Author:
    Chabot, Jason
    Summary:

    Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive. Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no...
  • À l'ombre du manguier
    Author:
    Lemay, Geneviève
    Summary:

    À la manière des grands contes africains, voici l'histoire de trois destins chargés d'ambitions, qui se croiseront dans des villages isolés de la Guinée. Trois âmes perdues entre les traditions et la vie moderne. Trois adolescents qui...
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