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1) The caller
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Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.
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In the turbulent times of the Sixties, a young boy adopted to North America from India settles with his adopted family in a rustic fishing village of Aquilon. His plans are to get along with new friends, but events take a turn when Felix brother dies in a boating accident and Aryl's former adoptive father comes looking for him. Guided by the parish priest Father Brenwitz (who has a medical problem from a tumor on his brain) Aryl discovers his interests...
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"This is a remarkable coming-of-age story and spiritual journey with as much between the lines as in them. Sometimes wry, always thoughtful, the characters seem to live and breathe, and you won't soon forget them."-Senator Byron Dorgan
The Last Ghost Dancer is more than a coming-of-age fable, more than the wry memoirs of a spiritual search. It is the story of a remarkable summer in a remarkable west river town. It is a commentary on the depth and...
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With a wholly original voice, this stunning debut novel captures the overwhelming transformation from childhood to adolescence
An ordinary suburban Connecticut summer in the seventies is the stage for the miraculous world of Timmy. Twelve years old and full of boundless curiosity, Timmy lives an ever-expanding life of record collections (of which Elton John is king), neighborhood bullies (of whom Franky DiLorenzo rules), best friends, and the darker,...
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Cuando Anddor Shallau es invadido por el ejército Russnori, la tribu de Sikandar es conducida a la remota Alcina Sahar, a veces llamada el patio de juegos del diablo. Sikandar y Mónica regresan al desierto donde entran en conflicto con el ejército invasor. Cuando la patria de Sikandar es invadida, debe regresar para defender a su pueblo. Mónica lo desafía, negándose a quedarse atrás, insistiendo en que no volverá a perderlo. Los dos, más...
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El pueblo en el que nació y ha vivido toda su vida Violeta, la protagonista de La tierra sobre tus huesos, ha sido siempre para ella un vientre árido.
Uno que la gestó con desgana hasta que llegó el momento de la expulsión. Pero, a pesar del peligro acechante, Violeta se resiste a abandonarlo, ya que ese pedazo de tierra suplió la ausencia de su madre, fue útero, regazo en el que cobijarse durante su infancia y el lugar donde también yace...
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Modern Man: Life's Like That is a comedy about the pressures and expectations on men as they try to find their way in the world. The main character is called Modern Man because he is a kind of generic interpretation of the 'Average Joe,' neither especially gifted nor a total moron.Everybody faces challenges and Modern Man has his fair share. The humour comes from how he deals with them. The reader will probably identify personally with some of his...
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Cocuán, pueblo perdido y olvidado, entre la selva y el frío de las montañas andinas, está a punto de desaparecer de la memoria. En él nació Mildred y allí también fue despojada de sus animales, su casa y sus tierras tras la muerte de su madre. Años después, una serie de sucesos extraños, desapariciones, episodios de locura y desvaríos, hará que sus habitantes recuerden la leyenda de la vieja Mildred y sientan de nuevo la...
10) Toby Tyler
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In Toby Tyler, James Otis masterfully transports readers to the enchanting yet challenging world of a 19th-century circus. This timeless tale, set against the backdrop of rural America, follows the adventures of Toby, a ten-year-old orphan who runs away to join the circus, seeking freedom and excitement.
Otis delves into themes of independence, the longing for family, and the harsh realities of life under the big top. As Toby navigates his new...
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"Kath is curious," observes her younger brother, Ethan, not without anxiety. She is thirteen; already everyone can see she's got her eye on bigger things than provincial Fresno can offer. Years in the glamorous chill of an East Coast prep school will introduce her to a razor-sharp sense of social distinction, cocaine "so good it's pink," and an indispensable best friend-all that she needs to prepare for life in Manhattan. There will be fourteen-dollar...
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A fun, fresh frolic of a novel starring a spoiled but lovable Texas heiress out to reclaim her fortune
Pippa Walker's wedding was to be huge-Texas huge-complete with twelve bridesmaids under contract from Pippa's mother to stay lean and long-haired, gondolas flown in from Venice, A- and B- guest lists. But when Pippa finds out her handsome husband-to-be isn't what she thought, she bolts from her own wedding, shocking society and getting herself disinherited....
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A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from "one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times)
"O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living." -Paul Gray, Time
"O'Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." -Ray Sawhill, Newsweek
In A Pagan Place, Edna...
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Howard Frank Mosher is one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction, set in the world of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and fugitives-white, Native American, escaped slaves fleeing north, French Canadians, and others-who settled in this remote and beautiful place.
God's Kingdom explores the Kinneson family through the coming of age of the heir, Jim, and...
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A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles...
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War! The Darkstriders crossed the treacherous ocean to conquer the Kingdom of Axain, stopping their future demise in its tracks. Or so they thought!Ravenward: Prequel NovellaThe war with Darkstriders entered the Kingdom of Axain. When the Feral Orcs attacked Nightfall Meadows, Thea the Loyal charged into battle alongside King Galin IV of Ravenward and his jealous fraternal twin Kade. When the first female knight of the kingdom slain the Orc leader,...
17) Cocky
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MALACHI I wanted her like a fiend, but she was off-limits, the sister of a fellow fighter. But because I was a bastard I didn't care, even if I should. She was sweet and innocent, and I was this dirty asshole that had my fair share of women. She deserved better, but even knowing that I couldn't help but go after her.I wouldn't even try and talk myself out of it.VIOLETI knew I shouldn't want him. He was bad news, cocky, and had a reputation that should...
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At 28, Casey Pendergast is not where she thought she'd be. Sure, she's killing it at her high-paying advertising job, but when she thinks about the idealistic English major she used to be, she can't help the nagging feeling that perhaps her best friend Susan is right—Casey is a sellout who's traded her dreams for a high-rise condominium, expense account, and designer handbags.
When her boss assigns her to a lucrative new campaign to lure acclaimed...
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"Saber quién se es atraviesa toda nuestra vida. Así, escrito con irreverencia, 'saber quién se es' constituye la historia de un destino completo, una novela, al decir de Macedonio Fernández.
Felipe narra un destino completo. Necesita, como todos, la palabra del padre, pero encuentra una imagen muda de sí mismo.
El epílogo con el que Hugo Bauzá cierra la historia es, en cambio, elocuente. El silencio de la palabra revela a Felipe su íntimo...
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Mary Wesley's sprawling novel of wartime England-and the loss of innocence It is August 1939. At an elegant manor house high above the sea, five cousins gather for their annual holiday. As Calypso, Walter, Polly, Oliver, and ten-year-old Sophy explore the limits of blood, friendship, and their blossoming sexualities, war looms on the horizon. This will be the last summer that they spend together; it is a season marked by the heady joys of self-discovery,...
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