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41) Wandering stars
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There there volume 2
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English
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''"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." - Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice...
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English
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"A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier. “With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness...
43) French braid
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2022.
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English
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"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
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Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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An epic multigenerational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation"--
"From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later,...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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"Prospero's Daughter is a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest set on a lush Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Addressing questions of race, class, and power, it is first and foremost the story of a boy and a girl who come of age and violate the ultimate taboo." "Cut off from the main island of Trinidad by a glistening green sea, Chacachacare has few inhabitants besides its colony...
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2023.
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English
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"The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories...
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Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.
"In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on...
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[p2012]
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel and The Force In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly.Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages, Winslow reaches back in time...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DE ANNE TYLER Uno de los libros másesperados del año según The Times, Daily Mail, Financial Times, Irish Times, entre otros. En la lista de más vendidos de The New York Times. «Si Anne Tyler no es la mejor escritora del mundo, ¿quién lo es?». BBC En 2010, Serena y James regresan a Baltimore desde Filadelfia, donde ella ha conocido a los padres de él y ha podido hacerse una idea del concepto tan distinto que ambos tienen...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Collects the acclaimed Western fiction author's first three novels for the first time. Horseman, Pass By, Leaving Cheyenne and The Last Picture Showwhich are all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II.
Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels-- Horseman, Pass By (1961), * Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show...
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Seven sisters volume 7
Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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La esperada resolucion al misterio de la septima hermana de la aclamada saga best seller de Lucinda Riley. Siete hermanas, siete destinos, un padre con un pasado misterioso. Cada una de las seis hermanas D'Apliese ha realizado ya su propio e increible viaje para conocer sus origenes, pero todavia queda una pregunta a la que no han hallado respuesta: quien es y donde se encuentra la septima hermana?Solo cuentan con una pista: la imagen de un extrano...
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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