The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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The Sense of an Ending is a novel haunted by the notions of death and mortality. It is the story of a group of adolescent friends who swear to be friends forever. Especially close knit are Tony Webster, a slightly anarchistic, sex-hungry, book-hungry schoolboy, and his contemporary, but more serious, newly arrived cohort Adrian Finn. When Adrian commits suicide the group disbands as everyone tries to forget. Fast-forward forty years later, Tony is well into his middle age crisis. His marriage has failed, he has a daughter and he has his career. Out of the blue he receives a lawyer’s letter with an unexpected request which catapults him into a search through the past. 

Julian Barnes was born in Leicester, England. He is a contemporary English writter with several award winning books. In 2011 He received the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending, after several previos nominations. 

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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The Help is an American bestselling novel published in 2009, written by Kathryn Stockett. It is set in Mississippi during the early 1960s and tells the story of three women. The first two are friends; Aibileen and Minny are African American maids who work in white owned households. The third woman’s voice is that of Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman who has just returned from college and is looking for the maid who raised her.

The Help has been published in 35 countries, in three different languages. As of august 2011 it has spent 100 weeks in the New York Times bestseller’s list. It has also been made into a movie.

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The Price of Freedom (Pirates of The Caribbean)

A.C. Crispin brings us a story inspired in the famous adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow with her book The Price of Freedom.

Sparrow is a 25 year old first mate of an East Indias Trading Company ship.  He had to go legal after breaking the Code by saving a a friend who had been accused of rogue piracy.

As the plot advances, Jack Sparrow is recruited in Africa by a man named Cutler Beckett, who makes him captain of a ship called the Wicked Wench.  Beckett is on the look of the magical island of Zerzura, where a fabulous treasure lies hidden.  Beckett gives him his slave from Zerzura, a girl called Ayisha, so Sparrow can seduce her and find the location of the treasure.  But Ayisha wants his brother freed from a Bahamas slave colony before helping him.  That puts Sparrow again in a dangerous position as he fights for both sides.

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