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Midway
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Ramona the Pest
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Zombie
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The Taste Of Apple Seeds
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Frog music
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Bertie's guide to life and mothers
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Pachinko
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Going home again
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Dennis Bock |
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Lesson plans
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Golden State
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Thank you, goodnight
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"Nick Hornby meets Almost Famous in this side-splittingly funny coming-of-middle-age debut novel about the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band who tries for one more swing at the fences"-- |
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Tell me one thing
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A life apart
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Pretend we are lovely
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It's the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia--seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling--and the Sobel family is hungry. Francie dresses in tennis skirts and ankle socks and wei… |
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Never coming back
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We begin our ascent
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Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He's a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse but not yet a star. She's a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that or a loss of… |
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The 1970s
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America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivanti family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona. |
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How to tell Toledo from the night sky
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