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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Frühling der Barbaren Frühling der Barbaren Jonas Lüscher Als Zwitserse man in een oase in Tunesië is, waar een grote bruiloft van een jong Engels stel plaatsvindt, gaat de Engelse staat failliet. OL16808341W
Soumission Soumission Michel Houellebecq,Lorin Stein It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. … OL17106654W
A Great Big Shining Star A Great Big Shining Star Niall Griffiths Written with a raging, lyrical fury, this is a devastating satire on a society fixated on image and celebrity - how innocence and individuality are routinely sacrificed for the totems of sex and weal… OL17381662W
The Heart Goes Last The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood "Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs.… OL17569713W
Based on a true story Based on a true story Elizabeth Renzetti Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her l… OL17875122W
The only words that are worth remembering The only words that are worth remembering Jeffrey Rotter "A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia, a tender-hearted A Clockwork Orange. In an America of the semi-distant future, human… OL17889012W
Quesadillas Quesadillas Juan Pablo Villalobos "A novel about the sometimes comic dangers of growing up in Mexico in the '80s"-- OL19706513W
The hundred-year house The hundred-year house Rebecca Makkai "A dazzlingly original new novel from the acclaimed author of The Borrower. Now, Makkai returns with an ingenious novel set on an historic estate that once housed an arts colony. Doug, the husband of… OL19981611W
A decent ride A decent ride Irvine Welsh "Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thi… OL20019922W
The assistants The assistants Camille Perri When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on … OL20027041W
Reports on the internet apocalypse Reports on the internet apocalypse Wayne Gladstone "In this third and final installment of the Internet Apocalypse Trilogy, Gladstone, the would-be Internet Messiah, finds himself in exile from America, falsely accused of murder. Meanwhile, a governm… OL20040458W
Savage theories Savage theories Pola Oloixarac "A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to pop… OL20045960W
Gorsky Gorsky Vesna Goldsworthy The most enigmatic of oligarchs, Roman Borisovich Gorsky has been led to London by his love for his countrywoman Natalia. That she is now married to an Englishman is an inconvenient detail ... At the… OL24267695W
Собачье сердце Собачье сердце Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriend… OL260422W
Equal Rites Equal Rites Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas… OL453670W
The tin-pot foreign general and the old iron woman The tin-pot foreign general and the old iron woman Raymond Briggs Fighting over an innocent little island, the ambitious Tin-Pot Foreign General and the greedy Old Iron Woman end up killing hundreds of brave men in a meaningless war. OL462815W
Wer geht wo hinterm Sarg? Wer geht wo hinterm Sarg? Markus Orths Zwei Männer im Zugabteil kämpfen einen stillen Kampf; ein Mann kann das Leben nur bestehen, indem er gräbt; Hinterbliebene diskutieren: "Wer geht wo hinterm Sarg?"; eine Horde Schweine wagt einen ent… OL5940221W
Мастер и Маргарита Мастер и Маргарита Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and … OL676009W