Custom Book List - October 2020


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Book cover for "Blackout"
Star rating for Blackout
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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BECAUSE YOU LIKE 11/22/63. FAST-PACED TIME TRAVEL NARRATIVE.
Description:
When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bombs, dive-bombing Stukas, rationing, shrapnel, V-1s, and two of the most incorrigible children in all of history--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history...
Book cover for "Cloud atlas"
Star rating for Cloud atlas
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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A SWEEPING EPIC, UNIQUE AND MIND-BENDING.
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Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Book cover for "Never let me go"
Star rating for Never let me go
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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SAME AUTHOR AS "THE REMAINS OF THE DAY". GRADUALLY UNVEILING PLOT, ENGLISH SETTING WITH PLENTY OF SUBTEXT
Description:
"As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it...