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The Song of Achilles
Bloomsbury Modern Classics
2017 || Paperback || Madeline Miller || Bloomsbury Publishing
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy a...
Noughts & Crosses
2017 || Paperback || Malorie Blackman || Penguin
The first novel in this award-winning sequence about racism set in an alternate reality. Upcoming BBC1 production of "Noughts & Crosses" in a series produced by Mammoth Screen, of Poldark fame, coming in 2017.
Under The Skin
2017 || Paperback || Michel Faber || Canongate Books
One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels, this is an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece
Pashmina
2017 || Paperback || Nidhi Chanani || Roaring Brook Press
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mum leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions - the topic of India is permanently closed.
Verre cassé
2017 || Paperback || Alain Mabanckou || Points
Verre Cassé est un client assidu du Crédit a voyagé, un bar congolais des plus crasseux. Un jour, L'Escargot entêté, le patron, lui propose de mettre sur papier les prouesses héroïco-comiques des habitués... Dans un cahier de fortuné, sous la plume désabusée de cet ancien instituteur ivrogne, prend vie l'histoire horrifique d'une troupe d'éclopés aux aventures fantastiques.
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
On Homecoming and Belonging
2017 || Paperback || Sebastian Junger || HarperCollins
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return.
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