Reducere. Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of...
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Reducere. Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most cel...
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Reducere. Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius ...
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Reducere. Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster...
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Reducere. NPR Best Book of 2017Los Angeles Times Best Fiction PickRefinery29 Best Book of the YearBOLO Books Top Read of 2017"Destined to be a classic L.A. n...
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Reducere. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up f...
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Reducere. Written from 1967 to 1973 over a series of early mornings in seclusion in his country home, The Table offers a final chapter in Francis Ponge's int...
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Reducere. A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word ``pass...
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Reducere. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopeles...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Zoe WicombAfterword by: Dorothy DriverThe 1987 publication of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town won Zoe Wicomb an internation...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Terry BarberAlthea Gibson is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. Th...
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Reducere. When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains? Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to overthrowing colonialism and br...
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Reducere. "Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling--filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase o...
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Reducere. Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned f...
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Reducere. -- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tape...
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Reducere. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as ...
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Reducere. "Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues g...
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Reducere. Fiction. Asian American Studies. One of Poets & Writers 2013 list of the five best debut summer fiction. Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Coro...
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Reducere. Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists...
Reducere. Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District....
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gwen FlorioFormer foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a smal...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jurgis KuncinasTranslator: Elizabeth NovickasThe unnamed narrator of Jurgis Kuncinas's Tula is our tour guide through the i...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan WalshAn unexpected surprise brings the Mitchell family of Savannah a chance to experience the Christmas trip of their d...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan WalshAfter years of abuse and neglect, Parker is found chained in a junk-filled backyard after a drug bust. The little ...
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Reducere. Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the ...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is a lonely old man...
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Reducere. Beyond the wonderful insights ... there is a portrait of the world in the eye of the storm between two world wars. It is a novel of awakening awake...
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Reducere. Heath has a passion for the landscape of the Grand Canyon, from its dramatic vistas to its subtle beauties. This collection of inspiring photograph...
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Reducere. DescriptionAn inspiring and timely story of friendship, courage, and the magic that can happen when we stand up for what's right.Normally, Olivia s...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book...
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Reducere. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition "Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuane This fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Ed...
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Reducere. A Recommended Book of the Season fromVanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * EsquireFrom bestselling auth...
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Reducere. DescriptionHUNGER by Knut Hamsun...the novel that inspired some of the world's greatest writers. "Hamsun taught me to write." ERNEST HEMINGWAY "The...
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Reducere. First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the "Pilgrim...
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