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General fiction, Historical fiction, Historical romance
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Set in rural Edwardian England, Annabella Lagrange is a lovely 17-year-old lady-to-be... or not to be, whose aristocratic childhood comes…
to a crashing halt when her womanizing papa, who has just bankrupted his wife Rosina's glass factory, reveals that Annabella is actually the daughter of a local whorehouse madam. Manuel Mendoza, a predictably dark and handsome self-made workman, helps Annabella begin a new, humble life as a farmhouse maid with an invented past. Contains explicit descriptions of sex
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Suspense and thrillers, General fiction, Historical fiction
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Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs,…
vegetables, cake--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor
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Travel and geography, United States travel and geography, Customs and cultures
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With this masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, Colson Whitehead conveys the city's inner and out landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal narratives. 2003
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Animal stories, Humourous fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, General fiction
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When a large box is delivered to Duncam while he is away, the other animal inhabitants of Mud Flat are…
consumed with curiousity about what might be inside. For grades 2-4
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Serious and literary fiction, General fiction
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First published in 1960, "The Violent Bear it Away" is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark…
and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle--that Tarwater will become a prophet and will baptize Rayber's young son, Bishop. Contains descriptions of violence
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General fiction
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When Zoe Cunningham's mother decides to remarry, Zoe is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only…
wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon's affection for his new family allows Zoe to pursue what she thinks is an independent life. When a series of unexpected calamities intervenes, Zoe learns that the idyllic freedom she enjoys has come at a steep price
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Serious and literary fiction, Short stories, Classic fiction, General fictionAnthologies, Literature biography
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Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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General fiction, Historical fiction
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In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family's disapproval of his…
music and the racism that shadowed his career. Decades later, his eight-year-old grandson is brought to Payne's old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor. The child's visit reveals the persistent family and community rivalries that drove his grandfather into exile. For high school and adult readers
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Poetry
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These intentionally wayward and witty poems are about exploration--the pleasure of the search. Enlisting a dazzling array of literary and…
cultural references from Vallejo to Stein to Eva Hesse, Reilly has created a playful and scholarly collection of poems
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Literature, Literature biography, Travel and geography, Music, General non-fiction, United States history, Lifestyle, Criticism, Actors biography
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Imagine W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee all living under one roof. On the eve of…
U.S. involvement in World War II, "February House" (so named because many of its inhabitants had birthday in that month) became a live-in salon for some of the great creative minds of the twentieth century
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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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These stories demonstrate the wry humor, the quirky intelligence, the quality of edginess, the affection for Jewish myth, and the…
eccentric beauty of language that make up the author's talent for story-telling
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General fiction
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Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee, comes home from the Army and becomes entranced by the power of a street preacher,…
Asa Hawks. Abandoning his fundamentalist faith, Motes begins to preach on his own, but runs into conflict with Hawks when he declares a new religion called The Church Without Christ. 1990, c1952.
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Biography, Arts and entertainment, Travel and geography
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Growing up with the twentieth century, Alfred Barr, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art, harnessed the cataclysm that…
was modernism. Part intellectual biography, part institutional history--Sybil Gordon Kantor tells the story of the rise of modern art in America and of the man responsible for its triumph
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Suspense and thrillers
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In 1976 in New York City, Gina Engel was murdered in her front hall. The police believed the victim had…
known her attacker. But they had few suspects, and as time went on, the case remained unsolved. Yet the suspicions of those who knew Gina continue to plague them. Contains descriptions of violence
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Mysteries and crime stories, Short stories
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Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised…
of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhod or location with the city of the book. With crime-fiction titan Lawrence Block at helm, the book's authors include: Jeffrey Deaver, Carol Lea Benjamin, John Lutz, Justin Scott, and more. Contains descriptions of violence
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Suspense and thrillers, Family stories
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Adrianne Rizzo a été victime d'une tentative d'assassinat de la part de son père biologique quand elle avait 7 ans.…
Plusieurs années plus tard, elle devient célèbre grâce à des vidéos de yoga qu'elle réalise avec ses amis. Lorsqu'elle reçoit des lettres de menaces, elle se réfugie chez son grand-père pour tenter de retrouver une vie tranquille. Mais quelqu'un en veut à sa vie.
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Biography, Social issues, General non-fiction, United States history, Customs and cultures, Women biography
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In this luminous and lively memoir, Marta Moreno Vega calls forth the spirit of Puerto Rican New York and the…
music, mysticism, and traditions of a remarkable and quintessentially American childhood
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Actors biography, Arts and entertainment
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Ed Sullivan's life was a mirror of its time, and Impresario, the first major biography of this iconic showman, tells…
his story as an engaging narrative. From his birth in a Jewish-Irish ghetto in Harlem to his career as a Broadway gossip columnist, his years in the vaudeville circuit, his stint in Hollywood, and his struggles in television, the man behind the scenes is revealed
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Biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Bien plus qu'un généreux rappel, ce second opus du ténor préféré des Québécois est, en soi, tout un spectacle. Marc…
Hervieux y raconte une foule d'anecdotes inédites, replongeant dans les aventures les plus improbables, comiques ou touchantes, qui lui sont arrivées au cours de son existence et de sa formidable carrière. Comme dans son premier livre, il accorde plaisirs musicaux et gustatifs pour nous offrir une succession de souvenirs inoubliables
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General fiction, Legal stories
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Consent is a fierce examination of a young man's heart--how it loves, how it grieves, how it tries to figure…
everything out. And it's this last element that makes this book almost like a mystery, an emotional whodunit