Deep down popular

In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he injures his leg and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.

Out of my mind

Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Franny and Zooey

Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in …

Zeitoun

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared--arrested and accused o…

Where the red fern grows

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

Truth or dare

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Going solo

The book continues the story Roald Dahl began in Boy, the first part of his memoir. As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, he recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War

A year down yonder

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Tracker

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Emma

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9781847494139

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I know why the caged bird sings

Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.

The higher power of Lucky

Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.

Anne of Green Gables

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The story of Doctor Dolittle

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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

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The killing sea

In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together arduos climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.

From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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A time of angels

Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and sparated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, tp get better and to reunite herself with her family

Catch-22

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. This novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

King Solomon's mines

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978-0-00-735090-2

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lily's crossing

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Freedom

The seemingly idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbours, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.rnPatty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents,…

25 roses

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Zap

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Middlemarch

An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot's depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world around them. Eliot was one of the first of her female contemporaries to write a novel that dealt wit…

The oil kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of po…

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The party: The secret world of China's communist rulers

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Bleak house

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Bleak house

Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola Bradbury ; preface by Terry Eagleton.