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A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two men---Seth Walker, a teenager trying to understand the genetic nature of his mother's early onset Alzheimer's, and Abel Haggard, an elderly hunchback who spends his days alone on the family farm thinking about the past--are linked by their mothers' stories of a fantasy world in which the lack of memory is a blessing.
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English
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Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams are unrealistic until the day he mysteriously comes into a fortune and is sent to London to become refined. The story follows Pip's journey into adulthood and emotional maturity and understanding.
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English
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A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.
Author
Series
A New Directions paperbook volume 874
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Drama relating the interactions of Amanda, her son, her daughter Laura, and a very important gentleman caller.
10) Noteworthy
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays at her exclusive performing arts school, Jordan Sun, junior, auditions for an all-male octet hoping for a chance to perform internationally.
12) Of mice and men
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.
13) Red River
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The 1873 massacre of over one hundred newly freed African-Americans in Colfax, Louisiana, by white supremacists, only makes the Tademy and Smith families more determined to claim the rights afforded them in the wake of the Civil War, even though it means generations of struggle and persecution.
14) The storyteller
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
17) Half wild
Author
Series
The half bad trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
19) Half bad
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
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