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61) All under heaven
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[1973]
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Malcolm and Nadya must return to the United States when the Communists take over China. How will they cope in their homeland after 25 years in China?
63) Tortuga
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Explores the meaning of pain and suffering in a hospital for crippled children.
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"An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade true story from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick. In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME. Take this year. Here are some of the thing going wrong: -- His teacher hates him. Like, really hates him. Like, is totally out to get him even when he's trying to be good, and is willing to fail him on the simplest things, like show...
65) The sunroom
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When her mother becomes critically ill, twelve-year-old Becky Owens, daughter of a preacher, vows to God that she will exchange her most cherished possession for her mother's life. To add to her sorrow, hospital rules do not allow Becky to visit her mother, so they share tearful smiles through Lancaster General's sunroom window.
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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe is about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life, in 1929. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is, considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally, believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Eugene's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town...
68) Hyacinth girls
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[2015]
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When thirteen-year-old Callie is accused of bullying at school, Rebecca is sure that the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to recieve threatening letters from the girl who accused her. Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. But the secrets she and Callie are keeping leave them both vulnerable, and now Callie is in terrible danger.
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A memoir by the bestselling author of The Prince of Tides about his father--the inspiration for The Great Santini--and a reaffirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
While the publication of The Great Santini brought Conroy much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But in the final days of Don Conroy's life,...
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c1984
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David Copperfield es un niño al que su padrastro abandona tras la muerte de su madre. Sin embargo, el chico hace todo lo posible para demostrar que tiene lo necesario para triunfar. Ambientada en 1840, David viaja por un mundo que trata de apartarle mientras él busca un hueco en el que encajar.
72) Man in the dark
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[2008]
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Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this...
74) Undiscovered
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2023.
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"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless...
75) The pledge
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[1988]
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As a foreign correspondent, Bruce Bacon has made his mark as a courageous articulate, and professionally respected reporter. As a human being, he had gained a far greater understanding of the moral dimension of civilization and the fragility of humankind. During his assignment to India, when World War II was coming to an end, he had followed up a variety of leads concerning people of all political persuasions, and as a result of his brief contact...
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In this work of literary fiction, the diary of a young bride gives readers an unusual view of daily life among the aristocracy in the early 1900s, a window into one woman's hidden torment, and a record of the mysterious events at the Rose Red mansion that scandalized Seattle society at the time.
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The Library of America volume 1
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Unabridged editions of three South Seas romances. Typee : a peep at Polynesian life--Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas--Mardi : and a voyage thither.
80) Kickoff!
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Barber twins volume 1
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Twelve-year-old twin brothers Tiki and Ronde are ready to leave Peewee League to play football for their junior high school team, but the competition for starting positions is tough and they face the possibility of spending a year on the bench.