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  The Arrow Garden

  Andrew J King

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  Winner of the Bath Novel Award 2020
  When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled.
  In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky.
  To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. But it is also to be changed.
  The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live.

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  Magismondo #1: The Prisoner from...

  Lene Dybdahl

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  In the world of Magismondo,
  magical powers are rare and in high demand.
  Shape shifters, thought whisperers, aromaticians,
  water drivers, and fire makers are all treasured jewels
  in the royal collections. That is, when they're found.
  
  Arrow knows nothing of all this. She's just a 17-year-old girl,
  who lives with her parents in a forest cabin near the village of
  The Beeches far from the court of the kingdom of Wolverfield.
  
  Nevertheless, Arrow already knows that the tiny spark
  that will sometimes appear in the palm of her hand
  has the power to flare up at the most inconvenient times.
  
  One day, Arrow gets into a fight with her arch nemesis, Fenri,
  and fails to suppress her anger and control her magical powers.
  Soon, rumors of her unruly fire powers reach the royal palace
  and force Arrow to flee The King's soldiers.
  
  Her escape brings her to the capital city of Rimshield,
  where street fights and public disorder are punishable by
  deportation to the Golgutu prison camp beyond the sea.
  
  Now, Arrow must learn to control her temper,
  lest she be forced to spend the rest of her days
  among Wolverfield's most hardened criminals.
  
  Join Arrow on a grand adventure in Magismondo!

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  Prized Possessions - A Novel

  Avery Corman

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  College freshman Elizabeth Mason grew up with every advantage, but her life is thrown into chaos after a violent encounter Elizabeth Mason’s parents always strived for the best for their daughter, sparing no expense on her education and upbringing. Now, on the verge of her freshman year at prestigious Layton College, Elizabeth has grown into a brilliant and compassionate young woman, if a little spoiled and naïve. But when a senior tennis star named Jimmy date rapes her during freshman orientation, Elizabeth’s once-tranquil life is shattered. Humiliated and guilt-ridden, she slips numbly through her first months of college before reporting the assault—a decision that launches her on a crusade to bring Jimmy to justice, one way or another. In this powerful and affecting novel, Corman explores the devastating repercussions—both private and public—of campus date rape and the double standards surrounding sexuality for young men and women. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

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  Femicide - the latest...

  Pascal Engman

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  When 25-year-old Emelie is found murdered in her Stockholm apartment the same week her ex-partner is released from prison, it feels like an open and shut case for Detective Vanessa Frank.

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  Dark Satellites

  Clemens Meyer

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  International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany. A train driver's life is upended when he hits a laughing man on the tracks on his night shift; a lonely train cleaner makes friends with a hairdresser in the train station bar; and a young man, unable to return to his home after a break-in, wanders the city in a state of increasing unrest. From the home to places of work, Meyer transforms the territories of our everyday lives into sites of rupture and connection. Unsentimental and yet deeply moving, Dark Satellites is a collection of stories from our time, as dark as the world, as beautiful as the brightest of hopes.

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  The Laws of the Skies

  Grégoire Courtois

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  Winnie-the-Pooh meets The Blair Witch Project in this very grown-up tale of a camping trip gone horribly awry. 
  Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing story of those days in the woods, of illness and accidents, and a murderous child. 
  Part fairy tale, part horror film, this macabre fable takes us through the minds of all the members of this doomed party, murderers and murdered alike.

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