ERDRICH LOUISE

(P/B) LOVE MEDICINE
Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich's most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws - two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love. We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, i...
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(H/B) THE SENTENCE
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs...
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ΤΟ ΣΤΕΜΜΑ ΤΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΦΟΡΟΥ ΚΟΛΟΜΒΟΥ

(P/B) THE PLAGUE OF DOVES
A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Here, everybody is connected - by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden of a shared history. Growing up on the reservation is Evelina Harp, witty and ambitious, and prone to falling hopelessly in love. Listening to her grandfather's tales, she learns of a horrific crime that has marked b...
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(P/B) LAROSE
Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son. Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have been close for years and their children played together despite going to different schools. Landreaux is horrified at what he's done; fighting off his longstanding alcoholism, he ensconces himself in a...
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(P/B) THE BEET QUEEN
On a cold spring morning in 1932, two children, Karl and Mary Adare, leap from a boxcar. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary have come to Argus, in the heart of rural North Dakota, to seek refuge with their aunt Fritzie. So begins an exhilarating tale, spanning some forty years and brimming with unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who causes a miracle; seductive, restless Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Celestine James, Mary's life-long friend; and Celestine's fearless, wild daughter Dot - the Beet Queen....
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(P/B) FOUR SOULS
A stunning novel that explores the things that can complicate revenge - like falling for the man you hate - from the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012. Seeking revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation, Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. But revenge is never simple, and she quickly finds her intentions complicated by her own dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her. The two narrators o...
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(P/B) THE BINGO PALACE
Seeking direction and enlightenment, Lipsha Morrissey, a charismatic young drifter, answers his grandmother's summons to return to his birthplace. As he tries to settle into a challenging new job on the reservation, he falls passionately in love for the first time. But the object of his desire, the beautiful Shawnee Ray, is in the midst of deciding whether to marry his boss, the wealthy reservation entrepreneur, Lyman Lamartine. Matters are further complicated when Lipsha discovers that Lyman is his rival in more ways than one. In league w...
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(P/B) TRACKS

ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ ΦΛΟΓΕΡΟΥ ΕΡΩΤΑ
Ιστορίες φλογερού έρωτα θα αρχίσουν να διηγούνται μεταξύ τους οι τέσσερις πρώην σύζυγοι του Τζακ Μάουζερ, για να κρατηθούν ξύπνιες και να γλιτώσουν από βέβαιο θάνατο. Εγκλωβισμένες από μια χιονοθύελλα μέσα σε ένα τζιπ, αμέσως μετά την κηδεία του άντρα με τον οποίο η καθεμιά τους έζησε ένα κομμάτι της ζωής της, καταθέτουν τις εμπειρίες τους και ταυτόχρονα δίνουν μια διαφορετική οπτική του ίδιου άντρα, ως εραστή και συζύγου. Στις "Ιστορίες φλογερού έρωτα" κεντρικό πρόσωπο είναι ο Τζακ Μάουζερ, είτε ως παρουσία είτε ως απουσία. Ωστόσο εξίσου ...
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(P/B) TALES OF BURNING LOVE
Stuck in a snow storm in a car en route home from his funeral are several wives and one daughter of Jack Mauser - local constuction magnate gone broke. In order to keep each other awake (and thus hopefully alive), they recount their histories with the larger-than-life man they all loved....
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ΤΟ ΜΑΓΙΚΟ ΦΙΛΤΡΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΣ
Ιστορίες έρωτα, μυστηρίου, θανάτου, περιπέτειας, τραγωδίας και ελπίδας. Ιστορίες άγριας ομορφιάς και ποίησης, που ανακαλούν τη δομή και το λυρισμό μιας μπαλάντας. Ένας κόσμος φτώχιας και εγκατάλειψης, εποικισμένος από ανθρώπους με ινδιάνικο αίμα, που βιώνουν το ασήμαντο με σπάνια ένταση και ξέρουν να μεταμορφώνουν το καθημερινό σε θρύλο. Σκηνογραφία και διάλογοι που θυμίζουν έργα του Σαμ Σέπαρντ, ήρωες, που ξεδιπλώνουν τη ζωή τους σαν άλλο μαγικό χαλί, καταλυτικό χιούμορ, αριστοτεχνική διαπλοκή παρόντος και παρελθόντος, μια εντελώς ιδιότυπ...
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(P/B) THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE
A powerfully involving novel from one of America's finest writers, and winner of America's prestigious National Book Award for Fiction 2012 Sister Cecilia lives for music, for those hours when she can play her beloved Chopin on the piano. It isn't that she neglects her other duties, rather it is the playing itself - distilled of longing - that disturbs her sisters. The very air of the convent thickens with the passion of her music, and the young girl is asked to leave. And so it is that Sister Cecilia appears before Berndt Vogel on his far...
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