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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Mangle Street Murders by M.R.C. Kasasian Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak How to be Both by Ali Smith 'Me Write Myself’ by Leonie Stevens Serving in Silence? by Noah Riseman They Cannot Take the Sky by Michael Green
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The Caretaker
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by Marcus Kliewer (Goodreads Author)
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Monday's Not Coming
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Out of Breath
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