Adimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIBrydon, James
Summary: "December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOCamus, Albert
Summary: A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1989
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Summary: Billy Boyle, an Irish-American cop who has become the personal private investigator of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, travels to Algeria in late 1942 to try to solve a series of murders involving French and American soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCamus, Albert
Summary: The final book by Camus, covering the years of his fatherless childhood in Algeria, taken from his incomplete, handwritten manuscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMEmerson, Gloria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Summary: "A gripping, multigenerational tale of a French Algerian woman, her family's past, and the legacies of colonialism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENHuston, Nancy
Summary: In Paris, a married German woman enters into an affair with a Hungarian Jew who repairs musical instruments. They are united by their World War II past, he a survivor of the Holocaust, she of Russian rapists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021