May 18: Stardust \;by Neil Gaiman
\nTristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria Forest er--even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so\, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient w all that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that stone barrier\, Tr istran learns\, lies Faerie ... and the most exhilarating adventure of the young man's life. \;
\nJune 15: \;The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
\nTrying to make sense of the horrors of World War II\, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-ste aling and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding\, as well as their neighbors. \;
\nJuly 20: \;C loud Atlas \;by David Mitchell
\nCloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing\, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way\, Ewing is befriended by a physic ian\, Dr. Goose\, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain para site. Abruptly\, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931\, where Robert Frobis her\, a disinherited bisexual composer\, contrives his way into the househ old of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter.&n bsp\;From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled repo rter named Luisa Rey\, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murd er that threatens to claim her life. \;And onward\, with dazzling virt uosity\, to an inglorious present-day England\; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok\; and\, finally\, to a po stapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. \;
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