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The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

★★★★★
Captain "Black Jack" Geary inherits command of a fleet stuck deep in enemy space, and is vastly outnumbered

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The Last Unicorn

★★☆☆☆
When a unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind, she sets out on an epic journey to find out what happened to all the other unicorns

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

★★★★★
A book written as a series of interviews conducted after a zombie apocalypse, outlining how the whole apocalypse unfolded

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The Defense

★★★★☆
Eddie Flynn, a former con-artist turned lawyer, is trapped into defending a notorious Russian mobster

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Joy in the Morning

★★★★★
Bertie's hijinks and Jeeves' convoluted schemes sees his uncle riding a bicycle dressed as Sindbad the Sailor... but that's just a part of the story

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Kindred

★★★★★
Dana, a young black woman in 1976 California, is repeatedly transported back in time to an early 19th century slave plantation in Maryland

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It Ends With Us

★★☆☆☆
Lily is a young florist, with a traumatic past. She meets a neurosurgeon and they hit it off... but there is something not quite right.

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The Code of the Woosters

★★★★★
Bertie has been charged by his favourite aunt Dahlia to steal a valuable silver cow creamer from the residence of Sir Watkyn Bassett, while Bertie is working to ensure that he doesn't get married to Sir Watkyn's daughter Madeline.

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The Secret History

★★★★★
A young classics student relates the incidents which lead up to the murder of one of his classmates at an exclusive liberal arts college in Vermont.

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The Inheritors

★★★★☆
In a pre-historic world, a simple, close-knit Neandertal family has to contend with the "new people", a group of early modern humans with a very different culture, abilities and weaponry

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A German Requiem

★★★☆☆
The third in the Berlin Noir series; WW2 is done, and Bernie is still trying to eke out a living. He is called to Vienna to investigate a case, but is caught up in the complex interplay between Germans, the Allies, the Red Army and former Nazis in hiding

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The Covenant of Water

★★★★☆
A multi-generational saga about a large St. Thomas Christian family in Kerala, and the mysterious illness that affects each generation of a family.

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