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Reading Groups Collection Multiple-Copy Titles Available for Loan Summary List Revised August 2014 Reading Groups Collection Multiple-Copy Titles Available for Loan Summary list revised August 2014 Susan ABULHAWA – Mornings in Jenin (2011, 352 pages) Chimamanda ADICHIE – Half a Yellow Sun (3 sets) (2007, 448 pages) Chimamanda ADICHIE – Purple Hibiscus (2 sets) (2003, 307 pages) Aravind ADIGA – The White Tiger (2 sets) (2008, 336 pages) Jose Eduardo AGUALUSA – The Book of Chameleons (2006, 256 pages) Mitch ALBOM – Tuesdays with Morrie (Non-Fiction) (2003, 212 pages) Kitty ALDRIDGE – Cryers Hill (2007, 352 pages) Kitty ALDRIDGE – A Trick I Learned from Dead Men (2013, 224 pages) Monica ALI – Brick Lane (2 sets) (2003, 491 pages) Clare ALLAN – Poppy Shakespeare (2006, 352 pages) Isabel ALLENDE – House of the Spirits (2 sets) (1982, 490 pages) Anita AMIRREZVANI – The Blood of Flowers (2 sets) (2007, 384 pages) Tahmina ANAM – A Golden Age (2007, 288 pages) Maya ANGELOU – I Know why the Caged Bird Sings (Biography) (1969, 281 pages) Gaynor ARNOLD – Girl in a blue dress (2011,448 pages) Gaynor ARNOLD - After Such Kindness (2013, 384 pages) Kate ATKINSON – Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1998, 496 pages) Kate ATKINSON – Case Histories (2 sets) (2004, 399 pages) Kate ATKINSON – One Good Turn (2006, 544 pages) Kate ATKINSON – Started Early, Took My Dog (2010, 350 pages) Kate ATKINSON – When Will There Be Good News? 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S. BYATT – The Children’s Book (2009, 624 pages) Alastair CAMPBELL – All in the Mind (2008, 368 pages) Anthony CAPELLA – The Various Flavours of Coffee (2008, 480 pages) Peter CAREY – Theft: A Love story (2006, 260 pages) Peter CAREY – True History of the Kelly Gang (2000, 432 pages) J.L. CARR – A Month in the Country (1980[2000], 112 pages) Donato CARRISI – The Whisperer (2010, 416 pages) Mary CAVANAGH – The Crowded Bed (2007, 308 pages) Mary CAVANAGH – A Man Like Any Other: The Priest’s Tale (2008, 248 pages) Margaret CEZAIR-THOMPSON – The Pirate’s Daughter (2008, 528 pages) Vikram CHANDRA – Red Earth and Pouring Rain (2000, 528 pages) Jung CHANG – Wild Swans (Non-Fiction) (1992, 720 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER – Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999, 248 pages) Tracy CHECALIER – The Last Runaway (2013, 400 pages) Tracy CHEVALIER – Remarkable Creatures (2 sets) (2009, 352 pages) Lee CHILD – Killing Floor (1998, 528 pages) Kate CLANCHY – Antigona and Me (2009, 288 pages) Chris CLEAVE – The Other Hand (2008, 400 pages) Marika COBBOLD – Drowning Rose (2011, 352 pages) Jonathan COE – The Rain Before it Falls (2 sets) (2007, 256 pages) Jonathan COE – What a Carve Up! (1994, 500 pages) Paulo COELHO – The Alchemist (1998, 224 pages) Tamar, COHEN – The Mistress’s Revenge (2012, 52 pages) Wilkie COLLINS – The Moonstone (2 sets) (1868, 384 pages) 2 Wilkie COLLINS – The Woman in White (1860[2008], 752 pages) CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS’ CLUB – Leap Year (Short Stories) (2009, 196 pages) Martha COOLEY – The Archivist (1999, 328 pages) Bernard CORNWELL – Harlequin (2009, 496 pages) Douglas COUPLAND – Girlfriend in a Coma (1997, 288 pages) Michael COX – The Meaning of Night. (2006, 609 pages) Jim CRACE – The Gift of Stones (1988, 169 pages) Jim CRACE – Harvest (2014, 288 pages) Neil CROSS – Always the Sun (2004, 320 pages) Roald DAHL – Someone Like You (Short Stories) (1973, 272 pages) William DALRYMPLE – The Last Mughal (Non-Fiction) (2006, 608 pages) Will DAVENPORT – The Painter (2003, 416 pages) David DAVIDAR – House of Blue Mangoes (2002, 496 pages) Andrew DAVIDSON – The Gargoyle (2008, 502 pages) Louis DE BERNIERES – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994, 434 pages) Edmund DE WAAL – The Hare with Amber Eyes (Non-Fiction) (2 sets) (2010, 354 pages) Peter Ho DAVIES – The Welsh Girl (2007, 343 pages) Michael DEAN – I Hogarth (2012, 272 pages) Seamus DEANE – Reading in the Dark (1996, 224 pages) oui Don DELILLO – Falling Man (2007, 246 pages) Kiran DESAI – Hullabaloo in the Guava orchard ( 1999, 224 pages) Kiran DESAI – The Inheritance of Loss (2006, 368 pages) Janine DI GIOVANNI – Ghost by Daylight (Non-Fiction) (2011, 288 pages) Anita DIAMANT – The Red Tent (1997, 347 pages) Charles DICKENS – Great Expectations (1860, 448 pages) Charles DICKENS – A Tale of Two Cities (1859, 368 pages) Sophie DIVRY – The Library of Unrequited Love (2014, 96 pages) Emma DONOGHUE – Room (2 sets) (2010, 400 pages) Anne DONOVAN – Being Emily (2008, 320 pages) Louise DOUGHTY – Apple Tree Yard (2014, 448 pages) Nicholas DRAYSON – A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (2008, 208 pages) Jeremy DRONFIELD – The Locust Farm (11 copies) (1998, 407 pages) Daphne DU MAURIER – Jamaica Inn (2003 [1936], 320 pages) Daphne DU MAURIER – Rebecca (1938, 448 pages) Maria DUENAS – The Seamstress (2011, 615 pages) Carol Ann DUFFY – Answering Back (Poetry) (2007, 140 pages) Carol Ann DUFFY – The World’s Wife (Poetry) (2007, 96 pages) Sarah DUNANT – In the Company of the Courtesan (2006, 416 pages) Patricia DUNCKER – James Miranda Barry (1999, 384 pages) Helen DUNMORE – The Betrayal (2010, 328 pages) Helen DUNMORE – Counting the Stars (2008, 288 pages) Helen DUNMORE – The Greatcoat (2012, 208 pages) Helen DUNMORE – The Lie (2014, 304 pages) Helen DUNMORE – The Siege (2001, 304 pages) Esi EDUGYAN – Half Blood Blues (2012, 352 pages) Kim EDWARDS – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (2005, 408 pages) Jennifer EGAN – A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010, 368 pages) George ELIOT – Middlemarch (1874, 582 pages) George ELIOT – Silas Marner (1861, 240 pages) Roger Jon ELLORY – A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007, 416 pages) Ben ELTON – Inconceivable (1999, 272 pages) Anne ENRIGHT – The Gathering (2007, 260 pages) Jeffrey EUGENIDES – The Virgin Suicides (1993, 256 pages) Janet EVANOVICH – One for the Money (2 sets) (1994, 290 pages) Gavin EXTENCE – The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013, 432 pages) Michel FABER – Under the Skin (2000, 296 pages) Josephine FALLA – Dear God (2012, 128 pages) 3 Nigel FARNDALE –The Blasphemer (2010, 492 pages) J. G. FARRELL – Troubles. (1970, 448 pages) Sebastian FAULKS – Birdsong (1993, 503 pages) Sebastian FAULKS – Engleby (2007, 352 pages) Sebastian FAULKS – Human Traces (2005, 614 pages) Sebastian FAULKS – A Week in December (3 sets) (2010, 400 pages) Julian FELLOWES – Past Imperfect (2009, 528 pages) Patrick Lee FERMOR – A Time of Gifts (Travel) (1077, 304 pages) Jasper FFORDE – The Eyre Affair (2001, 384 pages) William FIENNES – The Music Room (Non-Fiction) (2009, 224 pages) Nathan FILER – The Shock of the Fall (2014, 320 pages) F. Scott FITZGERALD – The Beautiful and Damned (2013 [1922], 464 pages) F.
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