Recommended Titles - October 2011

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  Ed King
  David Guterson

  Paperback · 03 Oct 2011 · €17.35

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  From the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling, darkly funny, compulsively readable retelling of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex that takes us from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair to the twenty-first century headquarters of an Internet search giant.

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  Blow on a Dead Man's Embers
  Mari Strachan

  Paperback · 04 Aug 2011 · €17.35

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  With her husband shattered by war, does one young woman have the strength to bring him back to life?

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  The Marriage Plot
  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Paperback · 11 Oct 2011 · €20.00
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  "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope

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  The Weekend
  Bernhard Schlink

  Paperback · 13 Oct 2011 · €10.00
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  The author of international phenomenon THE READER returns with a tale of old jealousies, explosive politics and uncertain futures. Meet the Baader-Meinhof Group, 25 years on...

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  Next to Love
  Ellen Feldman

  Paperback · 07 Oct 2011 · €17.35

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  From the Orange Prize Shortlisted author of Scottsboro comes a heartbreaking saga of love and loss in the aftermath of war

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  The Night Circus
  Erin Morgenstern

  Paperback · 15 Sep 2011 · €17.35
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  In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, Le Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. Although there are acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists, the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle.

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  The Dovekeepers
  Alice Hoffman

  Paperback · 30 Sep 2011 · €17.35
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  The Eleventh Day
  Anthony Summers

  Paperback · 18 Aug 2011 · €20.00
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  For millions in the West, September 11, 2001 is the darkest day in living memory. This title investigates the response of President Bush and the US military, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. It confronts the question the 9/11 Commission failed to answer: were the terrorists backed by powerful figures in other foreign nations?