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Author: Pearlman, EdithSummary:
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Author: Pearlman, EdithSummary:
Fifteen stories. They include The Cook, which deals with abandoned children being used as donors for body organs, and To Reach This Season, in which a homosexual adopts a boy from the Third World...
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Author: Dodgson, MarkSummary:
A short review of innovations as undertaken by Wedgwood, Edison and others.
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Author: Dallek, RobertSummary:
"Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy : an unfinished life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th president. Now...
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Author: Hadley, TessaSummary:
When she abandons an academic career and returns home to Wales to care for her ailing mother, Kate Flynn finds her life at loose ends, until she meets childhood friend David Roberts and David...
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Author: Clapton, EricSummary:
The legendary guitarist recounts the story of his life and his career, recalling his work with the Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist; years of drug and alcohol abuse; failed marriage to Patti...
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Author: Styron, WilliamSummary:
The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly...
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Author: Abraham, PearlSummary:
A Jewish girl's struggle to gain independence from her ultra-orthodox parents. She is Rachel who wants to be like other girls, wear seamless stockings, not have to cover her bathing suit,...
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Author: Collins, SuzanneSummary:
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to...
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Author: Landay, WilliamSummary:
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by...
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Author: Morpurgo, MichaelSummary:
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family...
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Author: Boyd, MariaSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives...
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Author: Gwynne, PhillipSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Gary Black's life in Australia centers around his large family and footy (Australian football), until he becomes friends with an Aborigine boy and realizes how horrible...
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Author: Harrison, KimSummary:
Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the Federal Inderland Bureau (FIB), former witch turned day-...
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Author: Padgett, AbigailSummary:
She might be crazy, but she was still Barbara Joan Bradley whose deaf little sister had named her Bo, and she was not going to walk away from reality and a little boy with almost no time left.