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Lynch, JimMcCarthy,CormacMcEwan, IanThe Highest TideOn a moonlit night, thirteen-year-oldMiles O’Malley packs up his kayak andgoes exploring on the flats of PugetSound. His heart pounds as he movescloser to an enormous breathingbeast. He realises that he is looking atsomething remarkable: a giant squid.This gripping story of obsession, beautyand the wonders of the sea intoxicatesthe reader with its humour and tragedyas a young boy comes of age in a summernever to be forgotten.The RoadA profoundly moving story of a journey.It boldly imagines a future in which nohope remains, but in which the fatherand his son, each the other’s world entire,are sustained by love. Awesome in thetotality of its vision, it is an unflinchingmeditation on the worst and thebest that we are capable of: ultimatedestructiveness, desperate tenacity, andthe tenderness that keeps two peoplealive in the face of total devastation.AtonementIn the hot summer of 1935 thirteen yearold Briony Tallis is trying to stage a playto welcome her older brother home,but her cousins are proving not to beup to the task. As she sulks in her roomshe notices that her sister Cecilia hasstripped her clothes off and jumped intoa fountain, apparently at the behest of53