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41) Margie
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Andy Riggins has just begun sixth grade. He's also just witnessed a seventy-year-old World War II bomber return to battle ready condition. His father is deployed in the Middle East. Who is Andy to confide in? Neither his best friend nor his little sister, or even his mother, understands. His father's plane crashes 8,000 miles away. It takes a warbird and her crew from another time to help Andy bring his father home.
42) The Red Chair
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The story of a young teenage girl making a major decision in her life. Her and her Father make this journey together along with a most unusual friend. Read her story as she completes the transition from middle school to high school and learns to choose what is best for her.
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A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from "one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times)
"O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living." -Paul Gray, Time
"O'Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." -Ray Sawhill, Newsweek
In A Pagan Place, Edna...
44) Hidden melodies
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Despite soaring success in the music realm, Sara shields her true identity from her well-meaning yet stifling family. But when fate thrusts her into a temporary managerial role, she's propelled beyond her comfort zone into a leadership position that reshapes her existence. Amidst the whirlwind of professional demands and personal obligations, Sara uncovers the symphony of friendship, self-care, and her unwavering passion for writing.In "Hidden Melodies,"...
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The year is 1955, and the world of Danny Meadoff spins with ease and stability. Eisenhower is president, soul groups are black, NBA teams are white. Fathers do not speak with sons. The Dodgers have jumped out to an early lead and look to meet the Yankees in the Series. And, according to universal plan, to lose. Everything is in its place. Or is it? The father of Danny's best friend has become a philanderer and a Republican. The sax player at Flatbush...
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Modern Man: Life's Like That is a comedy about the pressures and expectations on men as they try to find their way in the world. The main character is called Modern Man because he is a kind of generic interpretation of the 'Average Joe,' neither especially gifted nor a total moron.Everybody faces challenges and Modern Man has his fair share. The humour comes from how he deals with them. The reader will probably identify personally with some of his...
47) Masks
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Masks! Layer after layer, one over another. Camouflaging the true identity, disguising the real face, cloaking the convoluted intentions. Don't we all wear them at some point of our lives? One man's journey as he discovers that nothing is as it seems to be, no one is what they appear to be.From not so complicated relationships to success in his endeavours, Kavin, the protagonist had it all, yet was greedy for more. Would he manage to come through?...
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Former sweethearts revisit their teenage love-and their conflicting memories of the past.
In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Rivers has come to Albany, New York, to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he knew her, Kat was a cute proto-Goth with chipped black nail polish. Now she's a literary up-and-comer who has summoned him to vet her new memoir-an account of the summer they were sweethearts. And she's...
50) The Mattress
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As Colene says goodbye to her old apartment, she invites her friend Peyton over for one last raucous night in which secrets are shared and they reveal just how much they're going to miss each other.
51) Kiss the Sky
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This is London in the heady nineties. The world is waking up to the tribal tom toms of repetitive beats, much to the dislike of the authorities, which violently try to clamp down on the abundant creativity and unity emanating from the speaker stacks. Together, three girls are hijacked into this subversive scene for better and for worse…After recurring dreams, Claudia drops out of college to become an artist. It's a snowy winter. On her quest for...
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A brilliantly original examination of the many aspects that make up a life-from birth, up and over the hill, and into the wilderness of old age A truly astonishing and original work of fiction, Wrinkles is the story of a life lived forty-four times, from childhood to adulthood to old age. It is a story of one man, a writer, who is born, who grows, who loves, who stops loving; who eats, sleeps, smokes, lies, boozes, cheats, regrets, has sex, has...
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Cocuán, pueblo perdido y olvidado, entre la selva y el frío de las montañas andinas, está a punto de desaparecer de la memoria. En él nació Mildred y allí también fue despojada de sus animales, su casa y sus tierras tras la muerte de su madre. Años después, una serie de sucesos extraños, desapariciones, episodios de locura y desvaríos, hará que sus habitantes recuerden la leyenda de la vieja Mildred y sientan de nuevo la...
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"Kath is curious," observes her younger brother, Ethan, not without anxiety. She is thirteen; already everyone can see she's got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamorous chill of an East Coast prep school will introduce her to a razor-sharp sense of social distinction, cocaine "so good it's pink," and an indispensable best friend-all that she needs to prepare for life in Manhattan. There will be fourteen-dollar...
55) The Quarry Wood
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First published in 1928, now public domain in the US. When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women. In The Quarry Wood,Nan Shepherd's subtle prose...
56) What if You Fly?
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A page-turning epic historical adventure that starts in Australia and travels the world through the eyes of Frances, code named Funnel Web.
If you want to be a woman in a man's world, never take no for an answer.
What If You Fly? Synopsis:
For Frances Davies the war is far away, and she and best friend Maggie are more concerned with how to spend their time once they graduate high school. That is, until Frances's older brother, Thomas, is reported...
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"Rule number one in the music business: never start a band with any members of your family.Sure, it'll start off just fine, everyone having fun, with big dreams of success and gold records, but then you realize you're stuck in a stinking, too-small tour bus with your siblings for the fifth year running, and your brother hates you. Next thing you know, the band implodes just as it's reaching its highest success, your family won't talk to you anymore,...
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A rollicking coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s New Jersey, from a multiple award–nominated author. In this hilarious and biting novel, seventeen-year-old Frank Grimaldi wants one thing more than anything else-to have sex before he graduates. Too bad his crazy teachers, his insane parents, the Catholic Church, and the Mafia are all standing in the way . . . From the author of Bad Apple and the Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food, this is an involving...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical saga about the consequences of a wartime affair (Irish Independent).
He survived the carnage of war. But it was bitter conflict on the home front that tore his life apart . . .
After a year of fighting in the Boer War, Corporal Russ Hazelwood-missing his wife and tired of long, passionless nights-seeks solace in the arms of an African woman....
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