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A novel powered by two characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
4) Main Street
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The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.
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So B. it volume 1
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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Morgan OKeefe feels trapped in a gilded cage. True, the thirty-year-old mother agreed to put her science career on hold to raise her young son while her husband pursued his high-powered job. But though Morgan loves many things about staying home with her child, she misses the thrill of working with her colleagues in the lab. Shes restless and in dire need of a change. Fed up with New York Citys hectic pace, Natalie Reynolds takes up her aunts offer...
8) Indelicacy
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2020.
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"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"--
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Calhoun chronicles volume 1
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An awkward misfit in an accomplished Boston family, Isadora Peabody yearns to escape her social isolation and sneaks aboard the Silver Swan, bound for Rio, leaving it all behind. Ryan Calhoun, too, had a good family name. But he'd purposely walked away from everything it afforded him. Driven by his quest to right an old wrong, the fiery, temperamental sea captain barely registers the meek young woman who comes aboard his ship. To the Swan's motley...
11) Wonder Boys
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2001
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Pittsburgh area college professor Michael Douglas faces a slew of crises as he struggles to complete the follow-up to his successful first novel. His wife has left him, his lover--the wife of his department's head--is pregnant, a student boarder is in love with him, and a troubled young writer sees Douglas as a mentor.
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2020.
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"Drama, suspense, heartache, catastrophe, fear....none of us are exempt. But that makes us all eligible for discovery, amazement, fulfillment and love. How one man’s archeological discovery will defy your understanding of history, science and religion. The results could make you question your very existence! Join him and his family on a journey that may change your mind, challenge your heart and definitely leave you asking yourself ‘What if?’"...
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2003
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What happens to a New York photographer at the top of his game when he's fallen to the bottom? He hits a seedy bar downtown and drowns his sorrows. But somewhere between the bottom of a glass and the sawdust on the floor, he finds an envelope containing ten photographs that bring his life back into focus. Ten photographs he attempts to pass off as his own until the are stolen from him. Now he must undertake a journey through the seedy streets of after-hours...
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"Just twenty-two years old, Su Meck was already married and the mother of two children in 1988 when a ceiling fan in the kitchen of her home fell from its mounting and struck her in the head. She survived the life-threatening swelling in her brain that resulted from the accident, but when she regained consciousness in the hospital the next day, she didn't know her own name. She didn't recognize a single family member or friend, she couldn't read or...
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2014
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"Casey's feeling empowered as she prepares to graduate from high school. But her quick tongue and rebellious nature become her downfall as she's swallowed up into the Cobalt Domain, another dimension full of ferocious creatures and an even more dangerous ruler. There are rules to survival in the Colbalt Domain, a place in which no one intends to end up and few ever escape" -- from back cover.