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  The Gunny Sack

  by M. G. Vassanji

  Memory, Ji Bai would say, is this old sack here, this poor dear that nobody has any use for any more. As the novel begins, Salim Juma, in exile from Tanzania, opens up a gunny sack bequeathed to him by a beloved great-aunt. Inside it he discovers the past — his own family’s history and the story of the Asian experience in East Africa. Its relics and artefacts bring with them the lives of Salim’s Indian... (more)
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  The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: Book 1

  Here, There Be Dragons (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, the)

  by James A. Owen

  The Imaginarium Geographica "What is it?" John asked. The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow. "It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose." An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little... (more)
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  Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 13

  Busman's Honeymoon

  by Dorothy L. Sayers

  Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon.It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. And what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country soon turns into a most baffling case, what with the misspelled "notise" to the milkman and the... (more)
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  Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 12

  Gaudy Night

  by Dorothy L. Sayers

  When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup."Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly... (more)
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  The Jeeves omnibus

  by P G Wodehouse

  My Man Jeeves 1919 Right Ho, Jeeves 1922 Death At The Excelsior, Others 1914
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  Deep River

  by Shusaku Endo

  In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on a pilgrimage of grace. "Endo has successfully dramatized the discovery that the sacred river of humanity flows within ourselves."--National Catholic Reporter.
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  Kanthapura

  by Raja Rao

  Kanthapura has been described as one of the most satisfying of all modern Indian novels. Recognized as a major landmark of Indian fiction, it is the story of how the Gandhian struggle for independence comes to one small village in south India.
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  The Not So Little Book of Dung

  by Caroline Holmes

  What goes in, must come out, and as soon as humans ceased to be hunter-gatherers and settled with their families and livestock into static communities, both ends needed sustainable attention. Dung from an array of sources - man, horse, blackbird, pigeon and the Beast of Paeonia - has fuelled economies, superstitions and rich rewards. In this engaging, entertaining and attractively illustrated book, Caroline Holmes... (more)