Staff Recommended Reads February 2013

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  Wool
  Hugh Howey

  Paperback · 17 Jan 2013 · €13.35
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  In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't.

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  The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
  Ayana Mathis

  Paperback · 17 Jan 2013 · €17.35
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  Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia. Her American dream is shattered time and again: a husband who lies and cheats and nine children raised in a cramped little house that was only ever supposed to be temporary.

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  The Innocents
  Francesca Segal

  Paperback · 10 Jan 2013 · €9.99
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  Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold.

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  This Beautiful Life
  Helen Schulman

  Paperback · 01 Feb 2013 · €9.99
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  The controversial and explosive story of how one email can tear a family apart. From the publishers of The Slap, this international bestseller is a provocative fictional exploration of the way we live now.

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  Noah's Child
  Eric Emmanuel Schmitt

  Paperback · 01 Feb 2013 · €9.99

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  From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation. Isn't it time you discovered Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt?

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  Tenth of December
  George Saunders

  Hardback · 03 Jan 2013 · €20.00

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  Instantly astounding and enduringly haunting, one of America's greatest writers gives us his most dazzling short story collection yet

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  The Universe Versus Alex Woods
  Gavin Extence

  Paperback · 31 Jan 2013 · €18.70

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  A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey... This novel might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read.

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  Gun Machine
  Warren Ellis

  Paperback · 03 Jan 2013 · €18.70

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  An apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis.