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2015
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English
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In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels, that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age, the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism.
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From the award-winning author of One Thousand White Women, a novel in the tradition of Little Big Man, tracing one man's search for adventure and the wild Apache girl who invites him into her world
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by...
When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind. He joins the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for a young boy, the son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, who was kidnapped by...
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"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
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2013.
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English
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The coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, and Korea. While in Paris Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Separated for long periods of time, their final...
6) Odd Thomas
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Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.
A hero on the border of life and death must avert a looming cataclysm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Tell your story walking." St. Vincent's Home for Boys, Brooklyn, early 1970s. For Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. The Human Freakshow, a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects), Frank Minna is a savior. A local tough guy and fixer, Minna shows up to take Lionel and three of his fellow orphans on mysterious errands: they empty a store of stereos as the owner watches; destroy...
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Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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A collection of letters written to young people that address a number of issues from predominately Hispanic and African-American men that include single parenthood, sexually transmitted diseases, the allure of materialism, and the power of words and faith.
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Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition. This is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep,...
15) Norwood
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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Determined to collect a seventy dollar debt from an old friend in the Marines, Norwood Pratt travels to New York, meeting eccentric characters along the way.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders of strangers, a quixotic renegade when it comes to the federal bureaucracy, and a devoted believer in the afternoon cocktail and the evening binge, Zeke Pappas has an irreverent voice that is a marvel of lacerating wit and heart-on-sleeve emotion, underscored by a creeping paranoia and made more urgent by the hope that if he can only find a wife, he might have a second chance at life.
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