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1) The promise
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Adult Winter Reading: Books set in a different country
ASR 2022: Award-Winning Books
Adult Winter Reading: Books set in a different country
ASR 2022: Award-Winning Books
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"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power;...
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ASR 2022: Download a Digital Item
BMM Express: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Literary Fiction!
New Books in a Bag: May 2022
BMM Express: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Literary Fiction!
New Books in a Bag: May 2022
Description
"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets"--
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