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Dandelion Wine
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Ray Bradbury |
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting… |
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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Life after genius
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M. Ann Jacoby |
Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he's on th… |
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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Michael Chabon |
Im magischen Sommer nach dem Collegeabschluß will Art Bechstein Pittsburgh auf den Kopf stellen. Und wird selbst auf den Kopf gestellt. Er versinkt völlig in den glitzernd bunten Geheimnissen der gra… |
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Never Mind
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Edward St Aubyn |
Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner
Never Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose … |
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The Song of the Lark
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Willa Cather |
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art. |
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The Adventures of Caleb Williams
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William Godwin |
The Adventures of Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Int… |
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The wish maker
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Ali Sethi |
A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan.The unforgettable story of a fatherless bo… |
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Ballads of suburbia
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Stephanie Kuehnert |
Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not the clichéd ones where a diva hits her dramatic high note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the t… |
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Ernesto
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Umberto Saba |
Ernesto, a 16-year-old boy living in Trieste in 1898, has an affair with a 28-year-old worker simply called "the man". Ernesto subsequently has sex with the man frequently, but after an enjoyable exp… |
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The heart is a lonely hunter
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Carson McCullers |
Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavi… |
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Bleak House
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Charles Dickens |
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually be… |
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Peony in Love
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Lisa See |
"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret."For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion m… |
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A Gate at the Stairs
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Lorrie Moore |
In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America ("[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" --James McManus, front page of The N… |
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Christmas with Tucker
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Gregory D. Kincaid |
Kincaid's prequel to the sleeper hit "A dog named Christmas" tells the story of George, a young boy dealing with the loss of his father, and the dog that comes into his life to offer him a ray of hop… |
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The Beach Trees
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Karen White |
From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her little sister disappeared-never to be found. It was a loss that slowly eroded the famil… |
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The Kid
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Sapphire |
Fifteen years after the publication of Push, Sapphire gives voice to Abdul Jones, the son of her unforgettable heroine, Precious. The Kid is an electrifying story of body and spirit, rooted in the hu… |
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Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 6)
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Ann Brashares |
Despite having jobs and men that they love, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget know something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to … |
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We the Animals
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Victoria Alonso Blanco,Justin Torres |
Trois garçons tentent de grandir au milieu du chaos, entre crises conjugales et manque d'argent. De père portoricain et de mère blanche, ils sont soumis aux colères comme aux moments de tendresse de … |
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The dangers of proximal alphabets
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Kathleen Alcott |
"Two brothers, James and Jackson, have conversations in their sleep and their sister Ida listens in. While the world outside saw them as neighbors and friends, to each other the three formed a family… |
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