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Innocence Lost, Grief Found:1976. Richard (16) has finished his exams and a long, hot summer beckons, but his crush on the new girl in town is unrequited. He leaves the stifling suburb to spend time in The New Forest with Dudek, his Czech uncle. Dudek is being cared for by Anika, a vivacious young Czech woman. Anika introduces him to village life and when he meets Jennifer, a girl his age, he finds his attentions torn between them. Teenage emotions...
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Tony Eaton's novel, 'Sky-in-the-Eye', is the exciting and moving story of a gifted individual coping with dangerous and poignant events on the American frontier.
Revealed to Tony in a dream, the story of 'Sky-in-the-Eye' encompasses heartwarming kindness and heartless brutality.
The hero subjects himself to the vulnerability of unconditional loyalty and suffers the consequences of unprincipled treachery during a lifetime that includes true love,...
43) 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.
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
50) 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...
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Bajo la Estrella Polar es una nueva epopeya histórica de la premiada autora de La ternura de los lobos, especialmente recomendada para fans de Donna Tartt, Sarah Waters o Jessie Burton.
Flora Mackie cruzó por primera vez el Círculo Polar Ártico a la edad de doce años. En 1889, esta hija de un capitán ballenero de Dundee (Escocia), apodada por la prensa "La Reina de las Nieves", se propuso convertirse en científica y exploradora. Tras luchar...
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This book draws its inspiration from the age-old conflict between the sexes. Men have forever been in conflict with women over who can do what, who should do what, and probably to put it more succintly, who can do what better than the other. This conflict is even sharper in the youth with young women going for careers formerly meant for the male gender, such as politics - and most science based careers. This novella focuses on games. In the story,...
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It's 1996 and Jamie 'Sutt' Sutton, a student from Croydon, is about to embark on his second year at university. Only he's seen student life for what it is – a smoke filled, drug heavy, daytime television doss. So when he encounters Chicken George, a 30-year-old former photographer who claims to have invented a way to undetectably spike normal cigarettes with a mind-altering drug, Sutt sees an opportunity to demonstrate his entreprenurial skills...
54) The Frontrunner
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Russ Clayton is a young man who keeps losing the important people in his life. Each time someone disappears, he finds himself left adrift. The Universe stacked against him. He only finds peace running alone on the roads of his small town in Kansas.Russ finally believes that everyone in his life is gone. Feeling abandoned, reckless, and liberated, he gives himself up wholly to the running by setting an impossible goal. But, he needs help.Long ago,...
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An offbeat love story about the adventures and mutual rescue of a young woman out of place in her hometown and a mysterious stranger who calls himself Peter Parker (and begins to cast her in the role of Spider-Man's first sweetheart), The Night Gwen Stacy Died is about first loss, first love, and finding our real identities.
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Diving into this realistic tale, we meet four Korean girls--Julie, Jennie, Sunny, and Sue--who immediately form a close bond and share dreams of becoming future K-pop stars. Numerous challenging obstacles lie ahead as they navigate their journey as trainees, debutantes, and eventually successful musicians (because who dares to claim that life will be easy for a popular K-pop girl group?). However, through their unwavering dedication and hard work,...
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In a world where success is defined by grades and failure is villainized, a twelve-year-old boy is struggling to find his place. He dreams of playing professional soccer, but his teachers and even some of his friends discourage him, telling him it's just a dream and that he needs a backup plan. Despite this, he remains determined to pursue his passion. As a struggling student, he finds solace on the soccer field, where he becomes the hero, the villain,...
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"IN A LIFE FULL OF LIES, HE FINALLY SETTLED FOR THE TRUTH."
No one in Mattingly ever believed Bobby Barnes would live to see old age. Drink would either rot Bobby from the inside out or dull his senses just enough to send his truck off the mountain on one of his nightly rides. Although Bobby believes such an end possible-and even likely-it doesn't stop him from taking his twin sons Matthew and Mark into the mountains one Saturday night. A sharp curve,...
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Her rich girl party life is over. Her real-life adventure is about to start.Lorette Howland is the stuff of legends-as the most out-of-control party princess that ever lived, she is the darling of the rich young city crowd. Until she ticks off her strict dad one too many times, and he kicks her to the curb. Suddenly she finds herself broke, a complete social outcast, and... the unwilling landlady of the most horrible apartment building in the entire...
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The name MATATA in Kiswahili means troublesome. Jimmy gets this name from his grandfather who has a reputation in the village - but, of course, his becomes the dimunitative KATATA. And then he acquires another name - KARDA - from an American priest. So as we meet him in JIMMY KARDA, he is already loaded. In this episode however, Jimmy longs to get away from the boring city estate where he lives - and especially away from his sister who he considers...
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