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10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world

Shafak, Elif, 1971-2020
Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory- growing up with her father and his two wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; s...
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100 boyfriends

Purnell, Brontez2021
Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure from dirty warehouses and gent...
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The 12 days of Christmas

Alexander, Poppy2021
The most magical time of the year... For the first time in ten years, Freya is back in the little village of Middlemass for Christmas. The streets might be twinkling with fairy lights, but after the recent loss of her mother, she's never felt less festive. Forced to sleep under the same roof as h...
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1922

King, Stephen, 1947-2021
Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll...
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1984

Orwell, George, 1903-19502016
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible for detecting dissent against the Party and its leader, Big Brother: and eliminating it.
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1988

McGahan, Andrew2005
It's the bicentennial year and as Gordon's life is going nowhere, he takes up Wayne's offer to stay as weather operators at an isolated lighthouse at the top end of the Northern Territory. As a would-be writer and a budding painter, Gordon and Wayne wait for their creativity to arrive.
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2001 : a space odyssey

Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-20082000
On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of the discovery that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go wrong. Horribly wrong.
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2010 : odyssey two

Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-20081984
Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman.
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The 24-hour dating agency

Baker, Mary Jayne2022
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble - thirtysomething event organiser Charlie has tried them all but now she's wondering whether it's time to throw the towel in and give up on love for good. Newly divorced Tamara, Charlie's boss, is keen to meet someone new, but at forty-three, running her own company and with...
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33 women

Ashdown, Isabel2020
When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing - their middle sister, Vanessa, brutally murdered years ago and the victim of an unsolved case. As the sisters...
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1922

King, Stephen, 1947-2021
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1984

Orwell, George, 1903-19502016
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