Book type: fiction (6208)
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Minha vida de rata by Joyce Carol Oates PT
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"O que deve prevalecer: a lealdade à família ou à verdade? Será que dizer a verdade é sempre um erro e mentir pela família é sempre justificável? É possível fazer o que é certo, mas se arrepender amargamente? Em uma sucessão de episódios vividamente rememorados, Violet Rue contempla as circunstâncias de quando ainda era a adorada filha mais nova dos Kerrigan. Até que seus irmãos assassinam brutalmente um adolescente negro e ela os denuncia para a polícia. Expulsa de casa, e rejeitada pela família, Violet passa sua vida consumida pela culpa e presa à fugidia esperança de retornar ao lar. A prem... continue
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Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt NL
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
Juffrouw Minoes was vroeger poes. Ze spint, krabt, geeft kopjes en houdt nog steeds van vogeltjes. En ook al is ze nu een gewoon meisje, toch zingt ze af en toe nog de mauw-mauw-song en spreekt ze nog prima `kats . Dat laatste komt haar baas Tibbe, die in een krant schrijft, goed van pas. Via de katten-persdienst komt hij heel wat verborgen en geheime zaken te weten. Dat geeft natuurlijk grote moeilijkheden... Minoes is een betoverend boek, dat bekroond is met een Zilveren Griffel. Het is vertaald in het Frans, Duits, Engels, Spaans, Catalaans, Italiaans, Noors, Zweeds, IJslands, Grieks, Hebre... continue
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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli EN
PalestineDescription:
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian ex... continue
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Miracle Creek : A Novel by Angie Kim EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . . In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic “dives” with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial... continue
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Miranda van Frituur Miranda by Erik Vlaminck NL
BelgiumDescription:
Het wel en wee van enkele Vlaamse kermisuitbaters. Vervolg op 'Suikerspin'.
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ChinaDescription:
From the author of 'The Good Women of China' comes the uplifting story of three sisters who, like so many migrant workers in today's China, leave their peasant community to seek their fortune in the big city.
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Miss Iceland by Audur Ava Olafsdottir EN
IcelandDescription:
The extraordinary new novel from Nordic Council Literature Prize-winning Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland tells the incisive story of Hekla, a brilliant young woman named after an active volcano who longs to make it as a writer in 1960s Iceland
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Miss Julie by August Strindberg EN
SwedenDescription:
One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.