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Run Racist Run
“Can we sometimes assume a racist motive? Is there place for anger in dialogue on racism? Can liberals be racist? Should black people help white people understand racism?”
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The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”
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The Golden Orphans
A novella packed with the detail, characterisation and flair of a doorstop-sized literary thriller.
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Never Let Me Go
“The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
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Mothlight
“I could follow her logic and the way it worked just from the photograph, briefly falling into a memory once more that suggested that I myself had taken the photograph.”
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May
A day in the life of a woman with dementia in a home, interspersed with flashbacks of people in her life.
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No Good Brother
“The end of this story is pretty well known, since people wound up getting killed and the trials were in the news…”
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Marley & Me
“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.”
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The Da Vinci Code
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
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The Accident
The story ex-best friends – the “ex” a result of the fact that one’s ex-husband is the other’s new boyfriend.
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