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David Copperfield David Copperfield Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… OL10322056W
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
Della famiglia Della famiglia Leon Battista Alberti "I libri della famiglia has long been viewed by Italians as a classic of Italian literature. It displays a variety of styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of chara… OL1417308W
The Line of Beauty The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and t… OL1993508W
Club sandwichs Club sandwichs Daniel Laverdure Eugène est l'un des habitants de la toute dernière tribu de cannibales d'Amazonie. Or, depuis un certain temps, la nourriture commence sérieusement à manquer. En effet, les touristes imprudents qui o… OL26176536W
Le dernier été du siècle Le dernier été du siècle Fabio Geda Le temps d'un été, Simone, marqué par le souvenir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, fait connaissance avec son petit-fils Zeno, que des querelles familiales avaient tenu éloigné de lui. OL27708031W
No hope for Gomez! No hope for Gomez! Graham Parke When Gomez Porter beocme a test subject in an experimental drug trial, he is asked to keep track of any strange experiences through a Blog. What Gomez isn't ready for, is so many of his experiences s… OL28168717W
20-seiki shōnen 20-seiki shōnen Naoki Urasawa "This is a story about several boys, that save the world"--v. 1 title page. OL28599820W
Le langage perdu des grues Le langage perdu des grues David Leavitt The story of Philip Benjamin, a young man haunted by images of his staid, middle-class parents and frightened by the thought of revealing his homosexual identity to them. OL28955802W
Obvious child Obvious child Warren Cantrell U.S. government holds a worldwide competition to decide who will be the first time traveler in history. This turns Sam's world upside down after a half-baked joke application he sends in gets him acc… OL28966960W
Against the wind Against the wind Kirk VanHee "Outback ski enthusiast Kirk VanHee received the wake-up call of a lifetime after a monster avalanche atop Aspen Mountain nearly took his life. A child of the sixties with a troubled past, Kirk found… OL29258063W
Run with the horsemen Run with the horsemen Ferrol Sams A boy's story of growing up on an ancestral farm in Georgia in the early 1900s. OL3383085W
This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, a… OL468488W
Red sky at morning Red sky at morning Bradford, Richard,Richard Bradford,Richard bradford The experiences of a teenager growing up in a small town in New Mexico are, at various times, funny, sad, and poignant. OL73129W
Le rouge et le noir Le rouge et le noir Stendhal The story of an ambitious youth without birth or fortune in France in the 19th century. OL733640W
Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint Philip A. Roth Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth centur… OL74676W
L'Éducation sentimentale L'Éducation sentimentale Gustave Flaubert Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des… OL893802W