Hot And Cold Books For Your Summer Reading List
Hot Books:
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Two women arrive in a Spanish village, a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean, seeking medical advice and salvation. As her mother searches for a cure to a mysterious illness, Sofia becomes entangled in the seductive world around her and is forced to confront the fractured pieces of her identity.
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Stanley Yelnat’s family has a history of bad luck, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a detention centre. Nor is he surprised when he is told that his daily labour is to dig a hole and report anything he finds in it.
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An epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by his rival.
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The lives of four bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets – about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.
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Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach – and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?
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London, July 1976. Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he’s going to buy a newspaper. He doesn’t come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta’s children back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone.
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The story of an American couple’s fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa.
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A sudden and powerful romance that blooms between 17-year-old Elio and his father’s house guest, Oliver, during a restless summer on the Italian Riviera. What grows from the depths of their souls is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration, and an experience that marks them for a lifetime.
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Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for themselves amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory.
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Inspired by Jane Eyre, Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’s powerful and compassionate story of Antoinette Cosway who is haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother and who is trapped in an unstable marriage.
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Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, this novel is the portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other.
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Cold Books:
Unn moves to a remote village, she befriends the outgoing Siss. Entranced by a strange, terrifyingly beautiful frozen waterfall, Unn explores it alone and tragically disappears, forcing Siss to navigate overwhelming grief and isolation.
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In 1800s Yukon, a litter of part-dog, part-wolf pups is born in a remote cave; stalked by famine in the harsh environment, White Fang emerges as the only survivor. Quickly learning that the only law of the land is to kill or be killed, the wolf-dog musters the courage and perseverance to endure cruelty and hardship, becoming a savage, morose and solitary fighter. Yet there is one man, a young prospector, who can see beyond White Fang’s vicious anger, and decides that it’s time to try to win him over.
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Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start in the raw Alaskan wilderness. In a moment of tenderness, the pair build a snowman – or rather a snow girl – together. The next morning, all trace of her has disappeared. But Jack can’t shake the notion that he glimpsed a small figure running in the trees in the dawn light.
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Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as a wife and turns to her lover Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature.
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January 1937, 28-year-old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he’s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. After they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave.
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Cora Allbright and her husband Ernt – a recently-returned Vietnam veteran scarred by the war – uproot their 13-year-old daughter, Leni, to start a new life in Alaska. Utterly unprepared for the weather and the isolation, but welcomed by the close-knit community, they fight to build a home in this harsh, beautiful wilderness.
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Danny is only five years old but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a ‘shiner’, aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel his visions grow frighteningly out of control.
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The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.
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The last time Ree saw her father he promised he would return with a paper sack of cash and a truckload of food. Since he left, she’s had to look after her mother and her two brothers. When Ree discovers that their house will be sold if her father doesn’t turn up for his trial, she sets out to find him.
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In a remote village in south-west Poland, Janina, an eccentric woman in her 60s, investigates the disappearance of her two dogs as members of a local hunting club are found murdered. As she becomes drawn into the investigation.
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Hat, ribbon, bird, rose – on the island, when something disappears, it loses all meaning and is soon forgotten, whether burned, thrown away, or surrendered to the Memory Police. When a young novelist discovers that her editor can still remember the vanished things and is in danger of being taken away, she desperately tries to protect him as more and more disappears from the world around them.
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Nine-year-old Elsa, a Sámi girl living just north of the Arctic Circle, witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nástegallu, but keeps his identity a secret, carrying the burden into adulthood. As she comes of age amid sexism within her community and escalating prejudice and violence against the Sámi, Elsa is forced to confront her past when she becomes the target of the same man years later.
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Ricky Rice is a middle-aged hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. The sole-survivor of a suicide cult, he spends his days scraping by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York. Until one day a letter arrives, reminding him of a vow he once made and summoning him to Vermont to fulfill it.
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