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Vivienne, a photographer from Manchester, arrives at a boarding house on a tiny Finnish island hoping to rekindle her creativity and heal her broken heart. Instead, she misses her wife. Her camera hangs at her side unused. And her fellow guests keep inviting her into the forest.
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The House Next Door
Alone on his lot, a little house has stood for as long as anyone can remember, stoically weathering the storms. But one day, the wind brings change.
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War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories
An insightful and funny new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones.
Dodge City
A rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada.
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Nemesis
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{"id":7602155978811,"title":"Mr. Selden's Map of China","handle":"mr-seldens-map-of-china","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fascinating work of history, biography, cartography, and literary mystery, \u003cem\u003eMr Selden’s Map of China\u003c\/em\u003e unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP, and the city’s first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was “a puzzle that had to be solved”: an exceptional artefact so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. 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Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.
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Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
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The Couturier of Milan
In the ninth installment of the bestselling Ava Lee series, Ava investigates the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.
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The Lost Sounds
Woodland, moorland, sea ... Great Britain is home to vast array of beautiful natural settings, each with its own unique sounds.
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A quirky and revealing exploration of the tangled science, history, and culture of human hair.
