Dona Croll
1) Mammoth
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English
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Leo is a successful web developer. His wife Ellen is a dedicated emergency room surgeon. Their New York City workaholic ways leave little time for their 8-year-old daughter, who is mostly cared for by their Filipino nanny. But when a series of personal decisions triggers a chain of events on the other side of the world, will they discover the rippling effects of life's smallest choices? About imperfect lives, fateful actions, and the epic ironies...
2) Augustown
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English
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"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through...