Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-...
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Author: Schraff, AnneSummary:Genre: Young adult fiction, Language learning
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Author: Bockris, VictorSummary:
Personal encounters with one of the most influential and iconic figures of the Beat Generation During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery...
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Author: Bockris, VictorSummary:
The "poet laureate of the New York underground scene" chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen...
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Author: Parker, JeffSummary:
Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not...
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Author: Novak, Luka, Charney, UrškaSummary:
The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art. With echoes of Thomas Pynchon...
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Author: Bruno JobinSummary:
Un gamin de sept ans séquestré dans une cage, une mère ado au look gothique, une copine star de cinéma, une cousine originaire de Mongolie, une sourde-muette adepte du vaudou. Au cœur du...
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Author: Grace, HannahSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Over 1 million copies sold! A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. Anastasia Allen has...
Genre: Romance fiction, Sports fiction -
Author: Ruiz, MiguelSummary:
Presents advice on how to gain personal freedom by following the wisdom of the Toltecs.
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Author: Smutylo, AllenSummary:
Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories...
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Author: Allen, BarbaraSummary:
June 7, 2005, a sandstorm obscured what light lingered in Iraq’s nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez tied a claymore mine to a window grate. On the other side of the window Lt Louis...
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Author: Smutylo, AllenSummary:
Longlisted, RBC Taylor PrizeThe Mongolia you never knew existed. Mongolia beyond Genghis Khan.In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living...
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Author: Allen, CrystalSummary:
Inspired by real events, Between Two Brothers is a powerful and uplifting story about forgiveness, brotherhood, and the power of a family's unconditional love, from Crystal Allen, the...
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Author: Tryphonopoulos, Demetres P.Summary:
Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood — primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently....
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Author: Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:
The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain...
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Author: Shushkewich, ValSummary:
Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation. The fascinating development of...