Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity...
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Author: Jacobson, HowardSummary:
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Author: A Dorman LeishmanSummary:
When former soldier Jim Rennie finds a dead body at the bottom of Sandy Creek, he realises that his quiet life in Creeback valley is over. Reluctantly, he begins to investigate. The dead boy was...
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Author: GEMMELL, NikkiSummary:
Part memoir, part observation. As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from Australia, where she had grown up. But at 40, after 12...
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Author: MCINNES, GrahamSummary:
With vivid recall of detail, the author describes life in a suburb of Melbourne during his boyhood in the 1920's.
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Author: Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be...
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Author: BRADFORD, Barbara TaylorSummary:
Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself at the crossroads of love and duty as she runs one of the most powerful business dynasties in history.
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Author: DOYLE, Arthur ConanSummary:
Italian reading of classic Hounds of the Baskerville Lettura del classico Il mastino dei Baskerville
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing...
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Author: CABOT, MegSummary:
Nothing's simple when you're the new Princess of Genovia. At least, that's what Mia reckons. With her mother dating her Algebra teacher, a secret admirer sending her mysterious...
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Author: WELSH, IrvineSummary:
Short story collection of crime fiction.
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Author: Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.
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Author: Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
Precious Ramotswe uses her formidable detection talents to track down her tiny white van--sold by her estimable husband Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and stolen from its new owner--while simultaneously...
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Author: BAUM, VickiSummary:
A story of passengers on a Dutch transport ship plying between Singapore and Manila in the 1930's.
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Author: Lund, Gerald N.Summary:
How can we navigate safely through our turbulent times? Personal revelation is one key! Elder Gerald N. Lund, million-selling author of The Work and the Glory, offers profound insights about how...
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Author: Bryson, BillSummary:Genre: Anecdotes