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  • TO THE RIVER
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    TO THE RIVER
    OLIVIA LAING
    An author's walk "from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight" drawing on history, literature, and the river itself ( The Guardian, UK). In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the C...

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  • 1982, JANINE
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    1982, JANINE
    ALASDAIR GRAY
    A postmodern novel of melancholy memory and erotic fantasy—"a filthy tour de force"—by the acclaimed Scottish author of  Poor Things ( The Washington Post).   1982, Janine is a searing portrait of male need and inadequacy, as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover, and businessman. Alone in a hotel room, Jock attempts again and again to ...

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  • DOCHERTY
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    DOCHERTY
    WILLIAM MCILVANNEY
    Whitbread Award Winner: A Scottish miner fights for a better life for his son in this "intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel" ( Daily Telegraph). At the dawn of the twentieth century, newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labor in the pits of his small town on the coast of Scotland. B...

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  • NOW AND THEN
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    NOW AND THEN
    GIL SCOTT-HERON
    A wide-ranging collection of poetry by the iconic "poet and polemicist whose lyrics have inspired and galvanized generations" ( GQ). Musician, poet, and spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron influenced generations of artists with his highly original, disarmingly witty, politically provocative song-poems. Coming into prominence in the early 1970s, the self-proclaimed "bluesologist"...

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  • THE CHANGELING
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    THE CHANGELING
    ROBIN JENKINS
    A "witty, affecting novel" of a friendship between a troubled teenager and his well-meaning teacher—and the tragic path it sets them on ( Financial Times). Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly insolent smile. So, Charlie'...

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  • MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA
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    MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA
    JOHN MUIR
    In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall trees and waterfalls, fierce thunderstorms and bears, Muir raises an awareness of natu...

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  • THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
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    THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA
    DAVID THOMSON
    "Readers will be carried away on successive waves of pleasure [and] irresistible holistic beauty" in this journey to uncover myths of Selchies (Seamus Heaney, from the introduction). When author David Thomson travelled across the coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies—mythological creatures who transform from seals into humans—a magical world emer...

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  • UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY
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    UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY
    ALASDAIR GRAY
    In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of  Poor Things "perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work" ( Financial Times).   In "The Crank that Made the Revolution," an enterprising inventor presents the world with his contribution to the Industrial Revolution: an "improved duck." When a man splits in two, it isn't long before ...

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  • THE CONE-GATHERERS
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    THE CONE-GATHERERS
    ROBIN JENKINS
    The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII "has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance" (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pinecones in the grounds of a Scottish estate. Once the forest is cut down to support the war effort, the cones will be used to repleni...

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  • DOUBTS AND LOVES
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    DOUBTS AND LOVES
    RICHARD HOLLOWAY
    "A sensitive, brave and inspiring book" exploring the state of modern Christianity from the international bestselling author of Leaving Alexandria (Karen Armstrong). A prize-winning author and former Bishop for the Scottish Episcopal Church, Richard Holloway has written extensively on the role of religion in modern society. Now, in this passionate and heartfelt book, Holloway i...

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  • THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
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    THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
    JAMES HOGG
    It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards as 'justified' by God under the tenets of his faith. Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the p...

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  • ONE MOONLIT NIGHT
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    ONE MOONLIT NIGHT
    CARADOG PRICHARD
    This autobiographical coming of age classic offers a "visceral, comic and tragic" portrait of rural life in Wales during the Great War ( The Guardian, UK).   Named the greatest Welsh novel by the Wales Arts Review, this beautifully rendered novel tells of a boy's hardscrabble life in rural Wales and his challenging—yet at times transcendent—journey into adulthood. In the 1910s,...

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  • LANARK
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    LANARK
    ALASDAIR GRAY
    The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of  Poor Things: A work of "vivid imagination, yielding copious riches."— The Times Literary Supplement   From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray's Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. Wi...

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  • I'M NOT SCARED
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    I'M NOT SCARED
    NICCOLÒ AMMANITI
    The international bestselling novel "of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read … a deft masterpiece with never a false note" ( The Guardian, UK). A BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club Pick Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields...

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