Category: General Fiction/Classics

The Wrong People by Robin Maugham
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Overview: Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. Ewing lavishly entertains him and even provides him with a young lover, but as Arnold becomes more and more involved with Ewing he realizes only too late that he has been lured into a dangerous trap – and his only chance of escape is by helping Ewing to carry out a sinister plan.

Drawing in part on the author’s real-life efforts to expose the African sex trafficking trade, Robin Maugham’s first explicitly gay-themed novel was both a critical and a commercial success, being reprinted several times – including in the important Gay Modern Classics series – and was optioned for a film version by Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause). This edition includes a new foreword by Maugham’s longtime partner William Lawrence.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics

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Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems by Raymond Carver
Requirements: .ePUB, .AZW3 reader, 7.82 MB
Overview: Winner of Poetry Magazine’s Levinson Prize, an illuminating collection from the middle of his career, Raymond Carver’s poems “function as distilled, heightened versions of his stories, offering us fugitive glimpses of ordinary lives on the edge” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Poems > Poetry > American

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Across The Babylon Rivers by Doron Hackam
Requirements: epub/azw3/mobi reader, 360 KB
Overview: What are the consequences of one wrong decision?
The Gulf War, Iraq. Two orphaned twin sisters are killed during a destructive bombing, leaving their older stepbrother, Daud, behind. While mourning their deaths, a shocking piece of information that has been kept hidden for years is revealed to him – he was born a Jew. His real family escaped from Baghdad decades ago, but no one knows how or why they decided to abandon him.
Several months later, Israel. A young lawyer receives a strange email from an unknown source seeking desperate help. It is not long before Mossad agents knock on his door to question him about forbidden contact with the enemy, but he has no answers to give them.
Fate has a mind of its own, and soon he realizes that his family holds deep dark secrets – secrets with the potential to open the wounds of the past and make him doubt everything he has ever believed in.
Genre: General Fiction

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The Orchid House (aka Hothouse Flower) by Lucinda Riley
Requirements: .ePUB Reader, 7 MB | Version: US/UK Retail
Overview: From beloved New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, a “sweeping, poignant saga that will enthrall fans of The House at Riverton, Rebecca, and Downton Abbey” (Shelf Awareness).

Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences.

As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate reminiscent of Downton Abbey where her grandfather tended exotic orchids. Years later, while struggling with overwhelming grief over the death of her husband and young child, she returns to this tranquil place. There she reunites with Kit Crawford, heir to the estate and her possible salvation.

When they discover an old diary, Julia seeks out her grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed the estate. Their search takes them back to the 1940s when Harry, a former heir to Wharton Park, married his young society bride, Olivia, on the eve of World War II. When the two lovers are cruelly separated, the impact will be felt for generations to come.

This atmospheric story alternates between the magical world of Wharton Park and Thailand during World War II. Filled with twists and turns, passions and lies, and ultimately redemption, The Orchid House is a beautiful, romantic, and poignant novel.
Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title Hothouse Flower.
Genre: Historical Fiction

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De eerste vrouw by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
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Overview: De eigenwijze Kirabo groeit op bij haar grootouders op het platteland van Oeganda. Ze wordt omringd door sterke vrouwen – haar grootmoeder, haar vele tantes en haar beste vriendin – maar ze voelt desalniettemin het gemis van de moeder die ze nooit heeft gekend. Wie is de vrouw die haar op de wereld heeft gezet? Hoewel haar familie haar wanhopig in bedwang probeert te houden gaat ze op zoek naar antwoorden. Deze zoektocht brengt haar bij Nsuuta, een vrouw die buiten de gemeenschap staat en haar niet alleen meer kan vertellen over haar verdwenen moeder, maar ook verhalen met haar uitwisselt. Ze leert Kirabo dat de rebelse kracht die in haar schuilt een eigenschap is van ‘de eerste vrouw’. De eerste vrouw, die onafhankelijk en vrij was, maar die zich eeuwenlang heeft moeten aanpassen. In deze tweede, epische roman van Makumbi volgen we Kirabo terwijl ze naar haar eigen plek op de wereld zoekt – een reis van het platteland naar de hoofdstad Kampala, van het veilige nest van haar grootouders naar het onbekende, luxe huis van haar vader. Op de achtergrond wordt haar land geteisterd door de bloedige dictatuur van Idi Amin en lijkt de wereld almaar ondoorgrondelijker te worden. De eerste vrouw is gebaseerd op het Oegandese scheppingsverhaal van de eerste vrouw. Een groots en tegelijkertijd diep persoonlijke roman over verlangen en rebellie, doordrenkt van oude tradities en feminisme. Een indringend portret over wat het betekent om een vrouw te zijn in een gezin, in een gemeenschap en in een land dat vastbesloten lijkt om ook haar onaangepaste ideeën te doven.
Genre: Literatuur & Romans

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