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  • Wolfskin : Children of the light isles, book 1
    Auteur:
    Marillier, Juliet
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    All young Eyvind ever wanted was to become a great Viking warrior-a Wolfskin-and perform honorable deeds out in the name of his War fathergod, Thor. He can think of no future more glorious. And the chance to make it happen is his when...
  • Wind/pinball : two novels
    Auteur:
    Murakami, Haruki
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    In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels-Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973-that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors...
  • William Kowalksi : ebook bundle
    Auteur:
    Kowalski, William
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    This ebook bundle offers three gritty urban tales by William Kowalski. In The Barrio Kings, Rosario Gomez struggles to stay out of the gang life that killed his brother while finishing his high school diploma and preparing for the birth...
  • Walking across Egypt
    Auteur:
    Edgerton, Clyde
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    Mattie Rigsbee is a strong-minded senior citizen. When delinquent Wesley Benfield drops into her life, he is an even less likely companion than her stray dog.
  • Trouble man
    Auteur:
    Hunter, Travis
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    Jermaine Banks is a pot dealer in his Philadelphia neighborhood. He's also father to a three-year-old boy and a committed partner to his pregnant girlfriend. As he approaches his 30th birthday and suffers the loss of a close friend to...
  • To the bright and shining sun
    Auteur:
    Burke, James Lee
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    A young Kentucky miner grows up in the Appalachian Mountains, where he's torn between his family and the lure of the city.
  • Tie-fast country
    Auteur:
    Flynn, Robert
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    Chance Carter doesn't like his Grandmother Rista. When he learns her health is failing, the only thing compelling him to leave Florida for Texas is his status as the sole heir to her million-dollar ranch. Yet when he pays her a visit,...
  • This All Happened A Fictional Memoir
    Auteur:
    Winter, Michael, Moore, Lisa
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    The A List edition of Michael Winter’s brilliant fictional memoir, This All Happened depicts one man’s descent from love to fury over a calendar year. Featuring an introduction by Lisa Moore.In this journal-a-clef, we are exposed to the...
  • The summer of apartment X
    Auteur:
    Choyce, Lesley
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    Lesley Choyce’s novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies, Richard and Brian, intend to take the beach resort town by storm. It’s the fateful...
  • The sign on my father's house
    Auteur:
    Moore, Tom
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    "Felix, you are a dreamer. I used to be, too, but there's no payoff in it.' Felix Ryan, from Curlew, Conception Bay, has been in love with the enigmatic Ellen Monteau ever since the day he met her in school at Smallwood...
  • The Russian debutante's handbook
    Auteur:
    Shteyngart, Gary
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    In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted...
  • The red and the black
    Auteur:
    Stendhal
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    The epic novel of the passsion between Madame de Renal and Julien Sorel. It is considered to be among the greatest literature of France.
  • The namesake
    Auteur:
    Lahiri, Jhumpa
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    The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in...
  • The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    Auteur:
    Dickens, Charles
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    The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackfor Squeers ill-treats...
  • The killer poet
    Auteur:
    Yoshe
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    Growing up in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Brooklyn isn't easy, but for a long time it seemed as if Prince Poet Washington might defy those odds. His willingness to protect his family by any means necessary may seem...
  • The goldfinch : a novel
    Auteur:
    Tartt, Donna
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    A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, survives an explosion that kills his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in as an orphan, he becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother: a painting that...
  • The glass menagerie
    Auteur:
    Williams, Tennessee
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  • The beautiful and the damned
    Auteur:
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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    Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's...
  • The beautiful and damned
    Auteur:
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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    In the early twentieth-century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite. Self-absorbed and vain, Gloria Gilbert jumps at the chance to marry...
  • The Americans are coming
    Auteur:
    Curtis, Herb
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    An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for...

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