What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first...
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Author: Atkinson, KateSummary:
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Author: Rylant, CynthiaSummary:
Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel explore the beauty and tenacity of life. Life begins small, then grows. There are so many wonderful things about life, both in good times and in times of struggle...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Author: Richards, Keith, Fox, James, Hurley, JoeSummary:
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He...
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Author: Wise, Gary, Aldrich, LanceSummary:
Bad hair days, caffeine addiction and the perils of cubicle-land are all a daily part of life in this e-only collection of cartoons from the comic strip Real Life Adventures by Lance Aldrich and...
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Author: Leider, Richard J., Webber, Alan M.Summary:
Are you ready for your life reimagined moment? Are you at a point in your life where you’re asking, “What’s next?” You’ve finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us...
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Author: Lee, Chang-raeSummary:
Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the...
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Author: Wescott, ShelbiSummary:
Mara’s brother Soren remembers when his name was Cole. He remembers how he used to play pirate ship with his brothers in the backyard, the taste of his mother’s soft and chewy chocolate-chip...
Genre: Young adult fiction, Horror fiction -
Author: Lovegrove, JamesSummary:
Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach...
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Author: FACEY, Albert BSummary:
The author's experiences of a life-time in the W.A. hinterland - farming, droughts, Gallipoli, the Depression and World War Two. Told with great feeling.
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Author: Winman, SarahSummary:
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick. A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated...
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Author: Rapinoe, MeganSummary:
An instant New York Times bestseller! “Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart...
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Author: Ikstena, NoraSummary:
I have written Life Stories virtually in the space of one breath -- these stories have been imagined in such concentration, that I had to free myself from them. They came so naturally, that I am...
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Author: Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna, Donskov, Andrew, Woodsworth, John, Klioutchanski, ArkadiSummary:
<p>The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their...
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Author: Munro, AliceSummary:
This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of...
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Author: Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste
Genre: Psychological fiction