2nd Hand The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
2nd Hand The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
2nd Hand The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps ...Show more
2nd Hand The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Literature
The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' ...Show more
2nd Hand The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Literature | Series: Canons Ser.
Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story - a tale of lust, greed and ...Show more
2nd Hand The Rain Heron (The Age Book of the Year 2021) by Robbie Arnott
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Category: Literature
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission. As their lives entw ...Show more
2nd Hand The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
2nd Hand The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari; Robert Hillman
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Category: Literature
This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his forced exile after being captured and tortured by the Taliban, to incarceration in an Australian detention centre...and finally to freedom. A poignant and powe ...Show more
2nd Hand The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: good
"Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea- Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beac ...Show more
2nd Hand The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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Category: Literature | Series: Vintage classics
A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.
2nd Hand The Stories of Tobias Wolff by Tobias Wolff
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
This collection brings together stories from Hunters In the Snow and Back In the World, and features the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning short story, The Barrack Thief. Tobias Wolff is the author of In Pharoah's Army and This Boy's Life.
2nd Hand The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Literature
Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks ...Show more