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‘ Mickey: Surviving Salvation' is the story of a boy shaped by abandonment and abuse, who returns to his estranged mother at age 12 and has to figure out how to survive in her new life. Based on the author' s real-life childhood, Mickey tries to find his place amidst poverty, suffering and religious self-righteousness in the 1950' s. From Chicago to Mormon country in Ogden, Utah, where religious intolerance strikes deep,...
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A young girl at a Connecticut private school falls in love with her English teacher in this turbulent and tender first novel by the winner of the Yale University Willet Prize.
Flanders Point is a spit of land on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, the site of a small, financially troubled girls' prep school called Haddam. To this school comes Charlotte Delafield, a gawky teen hoping to surmount the aftermath of her parents' difficult divorce,...
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His grandfather was a cabinet maker. The rarely smiling old man who now had trouble walking and whose fingers struck the young boy as gnarled, helpless roots of some moving-about-the-house-with-difficulty tree.The grumpy old man who had trouble chewing most of his food for lack of teeth and who now and then drooled soup on his shirt at table and then pretended that he had not, even after mother would hand him a napkin, not even a thank you.This old...
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Pilgrimage and road-trip of unusual dimensions.
Follow me, Jonny Rowe, on a wild goose-chase from Ireland to the USA with my American grandfather's remains in my red birthday balloon. I use 'remains' in the loosest sense of the word: my grandfather, 45, puffed his last breaths of air into my birthday balloon before suffering a massive heart attack right there at my birthday party which becomes his death day party.
Feeling responsible for 45's death,...
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The Big Green Tent epitomizes what we think of when we imagine the classic Russian novel.
With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya's remarkable work tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys-an orphaned poet; a gifted, fragile pianist; and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting...
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I attempted suicide in 1965. I wasn't very good at it.For one, while I have since learned that the lethal dose of regular 75 mg aspirins lies on the far side of 500 tablets, I attempted my lethal feat with 121 of the little darlings (yes, I kept a tally).For two, I did lose my nerve late that fatal afternoon, and alerted my dad to my Bayeresque overindulgence.This is not to say that this was not an interesting exercise, it was. I was sincere in my...
7) Rage
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As'Khala fills with rage when she learns the truth about her family, and storms into the forest.
8) Fade
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Michael is dismayed to learn that a colleague's step-daughter has committed suicide. Michael had had thoughts of asking her out but felt the age difference was too great. Against all odds, Michael sets forth to bring Anna back by dating her ghost. Anna's mom Mandy is terrified but hopeful, but Anna's step-dad Tom is angry and unsure of Michael's intention. Michael takes Anna out for coffee, out for dinner, and for walks. As time passes, Anna becomes...
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Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, • Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living...
10) If I Shall Speak
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In the beginning of young Nettie's life, her lone escape from brutality was in deep silence, until a stranger knocked on the front door of her vile family's house. With that knock a thread was pulled and an unraveling began. That stranger and Nettie were led to an unpredictable, mysterious string of events that wove a different future for Nettie and those she encountered. Were there forces at play directing events, and could Nettie find the strength...
11) Sinner's Revenge
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Efrem's death destroyed me. Now all I live for is our secret child. The love of my life was killed by a man I despise: Mikhail Sidorov-the same man I married to protect Efrem's unborn son.For years, my vindictive husband has used my son to torment me. To make me complicit in his sordid Bratva affairs.But when I discover Efrem is alive, everything changes.Mikhail has kept him prisoner just floors below me all this time.Until now.I want to run away...
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Joy Nicholson's The Tribes of Palos Verdes is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, and Cody Fern.
"Nicholson captures the California-coast culture. . . . Medina shows what it's like to feel 'six million years old' way before your time."-Entertainment Weekly
"Impressive . . . Captures what it is to be young, intelligent, and very alone."-Us Weekly
Medina Mason is a defiant, awkward...
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En un mundo que impone una sola manera de pensar y percibir, es indispensable la búsqueda de la conciencia y de la verdad, este el tema fundamental de la novela.Rodrigo, el personaje principal, visita una eco aldea sustentable. En alguna charla se habla sobre las prácticas del sistema que buscan dominar y controlar a las personas. Rodrigo, inquieto por la conversación, se sumerge en un camino por encontrar preguntas más que respuestas. En esta...
14) Release Me
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Bryce finds newcomer Anna Renee the image of Southern girl charm. When she invites him to her home to meet her family, Bryce finds things to be a bit-off. A ripple in time makes him question his reality. Is he drawn in by Anna Renee's charms, or is it something much more powerful at play?
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Coming of age in Victorian England.In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy's mother founded hospitals in India and Natal, and when news of her death arrives in Britain the press tries to find the child. But they can't find her hidden away with Captain Hart – nor when she stays at Beauchamp Manor with the local squire,...
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Cian is the only being capable of unfolding the events foretold in the Prophecy. However,as the Chosen, he must claim his soul mate first.After waiting centuries, his partner should be his equal-as powerful as he-physically capable of handling the daemon possessing him, capable of fulfilling the prophecy.Fate has a way of playing silly games with Immortals...they gave him Candace...
17) Birth
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Step into the mesmerizing world of "Birth," the debut novel by Manchester-based poet, podcaster, and ambient musician, Andy N.Delve deep into the psyche of a young writer as this extraordinary tale offers a poetic, sad, and often hilarious portrait of his coming-of-age journey as his creativity is almost literally dragged out of him into the beginning of his journey as a poet, into fronting a five-piece acoustic band, and so much more. In this captivating...
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A holiday for six friends to a faraway, exotic place turns awry when one of them falls hopelessly in love with a mysterious young man whom everyone likes – except Angus! What is Angus to do when Isabella, the only girl he has a crush on, is falling head over heels for a guy whose name she doesn't even know – right before his very eyes? Nothing! Angus may be able to disarm a dangerous man who unleashes deadly mayhem at a crowded music festival...
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Vivian has more in common with her nemesis than she wants to believe. Waxwood, 1900: For Vivian Alderdice, the twentieth century begins with a new start. Now a working woman and progressive reformer, she's forsaken Nob Hill for the more modest Waxwood. She's laid Penelope Alderdice's specter to rest at last. Granted, her life isn't the one she was born into. Instead of a Nob Hill socialite, she sells strawberry sodas at her friend's drugstore and...
20) The Reputation
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Abilene Richmond has lived all her life in a boarding school run by nuns.Now at eighteen, she makes a deal with her Dad to attend her senior year at BHPA.There she meets the New A-Team, her brother's heirs to the social power at the Academy.But these boys have a reputation: there was a sex scandal, a trial and now everyone fears them even if they were acquitted.Sparks fly when Abi meets them at her first high school party but by Monday morning, the...
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