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Afterlives

Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Afterlives
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" A NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAGE, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS "Superb. . . . A celebration of a place and time when people held onto their own ways, and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away." --New York Times From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize ...

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Desertion

Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Desertion
A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana...

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Best of Friends

Shamsie, Kamila
Best of Friends
A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces." --Madeline Miller "A shining tour de force about a long friendship's respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities." --Ali Smith From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking point Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are un...

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Desertion

Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Desertion
A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independence"--

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Age of Vice

Kapoor, Deepti
Age of Vice
An immersive page-turner of epic proportions, about one dangerously seductive, extremely wealthy family in contemporary India, and the outsiders - lovers, servants, friends-who wander into its complex, treacherous web.The powerfully addictive, propulsive read that has drawn comparisons to "Succession, " "Billions, " and a modernized "The Godfather, " Age of Vice is an irresistible, binge-worthy story of power, wealth, attraction, revenge, and ...

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The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code ...

Pontzen, Andrew
The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos
How scientists are using simulations to recreate the universe, revealing the hidden nature of reality Cosmology is a tricky science-no one can make their own stars, planets, or galaxies to test its theories. But over the last few decades a new kind of physics has emerged to fill the gap between theory and experimentation. Harnessing the power of modern supercomputers, cosmologists have built simulations that offer profound insights into the de...

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A Slow Fire Burning

Hawkins, Paula
A Slow Fire Burning
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The scorching new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. "A Slow Fire Burning twists and turns like a great thriller should, but it's also deep, intelligent and intensely human." - Lee Child "Only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book's ending" - New York Times With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and I...

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