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After Dark
Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, three loosely related stories are linked by Murakami's signature magical-realist absurd coincidences.
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The Attack
Yasmina Khadra; translated by John Cullen
In this provocative novel, a successful Arab-Israeli surgeon revisits his roots as he seeks understanding of his wife’s death as a suicide bomber.
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The Cruel Stars of the Night
Kjell Eriksson; translated by Ebba Segerberg
Eriksson, hailed as Sweden’s Ed McBain, delivers another volume in this internationally acclaimed crime series features police inspector Ann Lindell. The Cruel Stars of the Night opens one snowy day when thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing.
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Daywatch
Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Vasiliev ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
In the sequel to Night Watch, the uneasy balance between the forces of Light and Dark is threatened when a priceless and powerful artifact is stolen from the Others and when one of the Dark Ones, a young witch who enhances her evil powers by absorbing the fear from children's nightmares, falls in love with a handsome young Light One.
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Depths
Henning Mankell ; translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson
Sent on a mission to take covert depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago, World War I Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman finds himself attracted to a young widow whose wild nature is in total contrast to his wife's reserved personality.
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Delirium
Laura Restrepo; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Aguilar, a former literature professor who now "delivers dog food in order to survive" returns from a trip to find his beloved wife, Agustina, has "transformed into someone terrified and terrifying"; his subsequent investigation into what happened forms the plot of this complex and captivating novel. F Res
Frost
Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
At the behest of his surgical mentor, a young Austrian medical student poses as a law student to journey to a remote mining town in order to observe Strauch, an aging painter and brother of his mentor, without letting Strauch know his true occupation, and becomes caught up in the lives of the mad artist and a colorful assortment of local characters.
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Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
Banned in Saudi Arabia because of the controversial and inflammatory content, a bold new voice from Saudi Arabia spins a fascinating tale of four young women attempting to navigate the narrow straits between love, desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition
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God's spy
Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by James Graham
A contemporary thriller set in the Vatican, where, in the aftermath of Pope John Paul II’s death, the hunt for a serial killer reveals a chilling conspiracy.
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Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino ; translated by Rebecca Copeland
Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unanswered questions about who they were, who their murderer is, and how their lives came to this end. F Kir
Inés of My Soul
Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
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The Last Cato : a novel
Matilde Asensi ; translated by Pamela Carmell
Sister Ottavia Salina, a Vatican archivist, along with an archaeologist and a captain in the Swiss Guard, investigates international relic thefts, faces tests based on the seven deadly sins, and searches for the True Cross.
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Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez ; translated by Edith Grossman
Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel.
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The Patience of the Spider
Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Camilleri's eighth contemporary police procedural featuring the crotchety but insightful Inspector Montalbano finds the Italian detective at home in Marinella enjoying the ministrations of his wife, Livia, after he was shot by a child trafficker in 2006's Rounding the Mark. But his recuperation is hampered by the demands of a new case.
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Please, Mr. Einstein
Jean-Claude Carrière ; translated from the French by John Brownjohn
Sixty years after the death of Albert Einstein, a physics student interested in his theories about the nonexistence of time finds the eminent scientist in a central European office building and together they discuss such topics as light, relativity, and world peace.
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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolano ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Chronicles the strange journey of two Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, as seen through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa.
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The Sirens of Baghdad
Yasmina Khadra ; translated from the French by John Cullen
The third novel in Yasmina Khadra’s bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism. Forced to leave the University of Baghdad when the Americans invade Iraq, a young man from a small desert village returns home, where he witnesses three events that transform him and cause him to avenge an unspeakable act.
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Skylark Farm
Antonia Arslan ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
Years after leaving his home in Anatolia to attend an Armenian boarding school in Venice, Yerwant is making plans for a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead, Skylark Farm, but the beginning of World War I, which forces Italy to close its borders, and the Turkish campaign against the Armenians threaten everything. F Ars
Snow
Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves. F Pam
Suite Francaise
Irène Némirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith
In the early 1940s, Irène Némirovsky was a successful writer living in Paris. But she was also Jewish, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Her two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, escaped, carrying with them, in a small suitcase, the manuscript - one of the great first-hand novelistic accounts of a way of life unraveling. F Nem
The Sun over Breda
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquâezar.
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The Witch of Portobello
Paulo Coelho
In an uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable, the Portobello of the title is London's Portobello Road, where Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, finds the worship meeting she's leading—where she becomes an omniscient goddess named Hagia Sophia—disrupted by a Protestant protest.
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