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Dandelion Wine Dandelion Wine 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… OL103118W
The Rise of Silas Lapham The Rise of Silas Lapham 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… OL10415255W
Life after genius Life after genius 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… OL11903314W
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 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… OL119429W
Never Mind Never Mind 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 … OL12091223W
The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark 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. OL12831W
The Adventures of Caleb Williams The Adventures of Caleb Williams 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… OL13109699W
The wish maker The wish maker 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… OL13765102W
Ballads of suburbia Ballads of suburbia 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… OL13769967W
Ernesto Ernesto 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… OL1437540W
The heart is a lonely hunter The heart is a lonely hunter 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… OL14864437W
Bleak House Bleak House 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… OL14868510W
Peony in Love Peony in Love 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… OL14927221W
A Gate at the Stairs A Gate at the Stairs 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… OL14937745W
Christmas with Tucker Christmas with Tucker 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… OL15586601W
The Beach Trees The Beach Trees 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… OL15671198W
The Kid The Kid 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… OL15877277W
Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 6) Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series, Book 6) 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 … OL15976343W
We the Animals We the Animals 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 … OL16091566W
The dangers of proximal alphabets The dangers of proximal alphabets 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… OL16451349W
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