Blogs in January 2021

The Emperor of Ocean Park 18th January 2021

Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny – a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice has gone terribly wrong. An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same...

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Ghost Boys 18th January 2021

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real-life history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. ALIVE Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn’t get into trouble. He goes to school. He does...

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Indians on Vacation 18th January 2021

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years earlier, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace Mimi’s long-lost uncle...

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The Inner Circle 16th January 2021

The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed. Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people’s stories, never a part of the story himself . ....

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Native Speaker 16th January 2021

Another page-turner in the espionage thriller fold, the Native Speaker is the debut novel and political thriller book by Korean-American writer Chang-Rae Lee. While the political espionage theme in this fabulous novel functions as much as a metaphor than...

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