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Signs of life
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Natalie Taylor |
Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor has led a charmed life. Surrounded by her large, close-knit family, she enjoys her meaningful job as a high school English teacher, cherishes being married to her … |
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24-karat kids
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Judy Goldstein |
Hired by an elite Manhattan medical practice, pediatrician Shelly Green finds herself attending some of the Upper East Side's wealthiest youngsters, a situation that leads her to become disgusted wit… |
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Timbuktu
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Paul Auster |
Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying. The story, set in the early 199… |
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Gabriel's eye
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Smith, C. W. |
"At twenty-eight, Susan is the kind of teacher every student falls for, in one way or another. She's beautiful, kind, sympathetic - and she teaches art, where her creative approach and candor have en… |
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In the Shadow of Diablo
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Dan Hanel |
"When foreign language teacher Celeste Scott is asked by police to help translate a strange note found on a mummified corpse, she and science teacher Harrison Barrett are drawn into the intriguiing h… |
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Lŏbŭ mei p'eil
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Matthew Quick |
Portia Kane is escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, running back to South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Looking… |
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Mary and O'Neil
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Justin Cronin |
Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, e… |
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The centaur
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John Updike |
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son g… |
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