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Roman Elegy by Sabine Gruber
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Overview: Writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome in 2009 to clear the flat of her school friend Ines, who has died prematurely from cancer. Sorting through Ines’ belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing an autobiographical account of strange experiences that Ines had while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the summer of 1978. Wrapped up with her diaries, Clara also discovers the life story of Ines’ former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente. An ethnic German from Italy’s troubled South Tyrol region like Clara and Ines, Emma first came to Rome in the late 1930s and became an eyewitness to the turbulent events of the subsequent decades: Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, the Nazi occupation, and the uneasy post-war democracy threatened by corruption and extremism.

A sweeping tale of remembrance and reconciliation, of lives unfulfilled and loves unrequited, Roman Elegy tells the personal stories of these three resilient women and how they came to terms with the times in which they lived. The narratives are woven together with a fascinating historical perspective on the Eternal City in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Stranded En Rade by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Overview: J.-K. Huysmans’ Stranded (En Rade 1887), published just three years after the iconoclastic Against Nature, sees him again breaking new ground and pushing back the boundaries of the novel form. Stamped throughout with his characteristic black humour, Stranded is one of Huysmans’ most innovative, most imaginative works. Jacques’ waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that are as unforgettable and unsettling as anything to be found in the decadent fantasies of Against Nature, or the satanic obsessions of Là-bas. King has written an excellent introduction in which he relates the critical history of this unusual work and highlights the contrasts and creativity that made the era of its publication such a rich one to revisit. His translation is scrupulously accurate. Tadzio Koelb in The Times Literary Supplement
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Hero by Root Leeb
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Overview: A young woman who lives in Bavaria, Nele is quiet, an introvert, preferring to go unnoticed and keep to herself. That reticence carries over to her relationship with her father, Hero—until, that is, she realizes that he is seriously ill, and in fact may even be dying. That realization prompts her to work up the gumption to introduce him to her boyfriend, a Nigerian immigrant. This new-found courage impresses Hero, who comes to respect his daughter and entrusts her with a secret: a cardboard box whose contents are a mystery. Hero tells her to distribute what she finds inside to her mother and siblings, but only after his death.

Inspired in part by King Lear, this enchanting novel of families, secrets, and love is the first of Root Leeb’s works to be translated into English and is sure to win new fans for this successful German writer.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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First Fall by Zaide Bishop (Bones of Eden #1)
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Overview: For years, the Varekai and Elikai tribes have each struggled in their own

ways to survive against the elements, hunger and the deadly creatures of Eden. For just as many years, they have adhered to one rule: never make contact. The resourceful Varekai are called female. And the Elikai? A mysterious, animal breed called male. When an adventurous Elikai brother is caught stealing from the enemy, a beautiful, inquisitive Varekai healer, the rules keeping the two tribes apart begin to matter less and less. Stranded together in a perilous land, a curious instinct draws Varekai and Elikai closer together than their world has ever dared. And nothing will ever be the same.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Viper Three by Walter Wager
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 298 kb
Overview: THEY WERE ALL THERE—the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Attorney General, the Air Force Chief of Staff, and the Director of the CIA—gathered around their President, as he stared at the red phone. And they were all powerless to help him.

Michaelson of the CIA summed it up. “Mr. President, I think every man in this room realizes that, no matter what we might tell Moscow or Peking, eleven or twelve minutes after those missiles leave Viper Three, we’ll be in the middle of World War III.”

It was a hand the President would have to play alone, a hand in which all the aces were held by the dealer. And this dealer had just raised the stakes out of sight; he was prepared to die—and take half a billion people with him.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

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