The Chemistry of Tears
By: Peter Carey
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden de…
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By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
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"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
2. Zoeken naar Eileen W.
By: Leon de Winter
3.13
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Een katholiek Noordiers meisje raakt in verwachting van een protestantse jongeman en komt daardoor … read more
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3. Half a Life
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
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By: R.M. Romero
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain… read more
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5. The Acid House
By: Irvine Welsh
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Description from the inside sleeve: This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous colle… read more
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6. Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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7. The Chemistry of Tears
By: Peter Carey
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden de… read more
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8. Marabou Stork Nightmares
By: Irvine Welsh
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspottingand The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been ha… read more
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9. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
By: Teddy Wayne
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the fans don't love him… read more
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10. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
By: Edward P. Jones
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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11. Arcadia
By: Iain Pears
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of o… read more
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12. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
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13. Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes
By: Terry Pratchett , Mark Beech
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is … read more
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14. If Not Now, When?
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3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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By: Iain Banks
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
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3.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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18. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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19. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
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20. Death on the Trans-Siberian Express (Olga Pushkin #1)
By: C.J. Farrington
3.08
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Roslazny - a sleepy Russian town where intrigue and murder combine to disturb the icy si… read more
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21. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
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