Anna Burns
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous....
2) Milkman
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Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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Dans cette ville sans nom, mieux vaut ne pas se faire remarquer. La jeune narratrice met tout en œuvre pour empêcher sa mère de découvrir son ' peut-être-petit-ami ', et pour cacher à tous qu'elle a croisé le chemin du laitier – un homme violent qui la poursuit de ses avances. Mais quand son beau-frère comprend qu'elle garde un secret, et que la rumeur se met à enfler, la jeune fille devient ' intéressante '. Or devenir intéressant...
3) Mostly Hero
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English
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Mostly HeroFemme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme's Great Aunt - the old lady who lives alone in a skyscraper - is his own disreputable grandmother. Master villain Great Aunt needs to know whether or not her favourite niece, Femme, is in love with her arch-enemy, Hero. Meantime, Freddie, Femme's lovelorn cousin, must seek out and destroy Great Aunt otherwise his sweet-natured fiancée, Monique...
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[2020]
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English
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"In the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of criminals and victims, has the run of the place. Yet there are signs that patriarch John Doe's reign may be coming to an end. When Jetty Doe breaks into a gun store and makes off with a Kalashnikov, the stage is set for a violent confrontation. But while Jetty is making her way across town in a taxi, an elusive, chatty narrator takes us on a wild journey, zooming in and...
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