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The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister who are the children of a rich rubber planter. Politics, family drama, illicit love. A debut in fiction.
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Somerville - New Books
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
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6 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
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2 copies on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Patchett, Ann
3 available
FIC Patchett, Ann
3 available
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101 copies, 214 people are on the wait list.
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120 copies, 115 people are on the wait list.
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120 copies, 115 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Somerville East - Large Print
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Somerville West - Large Print
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
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Somerville - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
2 available
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
2 available
Somerville East - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
Somerville West - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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1 copy on order.
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Verghese, Abraham
1 available
FIC Verghese, Abraham
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Verghese, Abraham
1 available
FIC Verghese, Abraham
1 available
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27 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.
5) Pachinko
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Lee, Min Jin
1 available
FIC Lee, Min Jin
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Lee, Min Jin
1 available
FIC Lee, Min Jin
1 available
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
6) Victory city
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
FIC Rushdie, Salman
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Gyasi, Yaa
1 available
FIC Gyasi, Yaa
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Gyasi, Yaa
1 available
FIC Gyasi, Yaa
1 available
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"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
8) Barkskins
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"Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well...
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eBook
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9 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 47 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Somerville West - Large Print
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LT FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
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Somerville - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
Somerville East - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC PATCHETT
1 available
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"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
10) Crossroads
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Key to all mythologies volume 1
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Franzen, Jonathan
1 available
FIC Franzen, Jonathan
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Franzen, Jonathan
1 available
FIC Franzen, Jonathan
1 available
eAudiobook
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Ford, Jamie
1 available
FIC Ford, Jamie
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Ford, Jamie
1 available
FIC Ford, Jamie
1 available
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
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"The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that will tear not...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Washburn, Kawai Strong
1 available
FIC Washburn, Kawai Strong
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Washburn, Kawai Strong
1 available
FIC Washburn, Kawai Strong
1 available
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa's family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from...
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
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There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative...