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MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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Penn Cage novels volume 2
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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
14) Secret father
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
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637 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
15) Fortunate son
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
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313 p. ; 22 cm.
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Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, Eric, a handsome white man of privilege, and Tommy, an impoverished black youth with poor health, are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
16) The pack
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The pack (Jason Starr) volume 1
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
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341 p. ; 24 cm.
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New to the role of stay-at-home-parent, Simon Burns befriends a tight-knit group of other dads at the playground whose warm welcome into their "pack" may have been literal when he begins to suspect that they are actually werewolves.
18) The antagonist
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
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285 p.
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Mistaken for a goon because of his large size and strength, gentle Gordon Rankin, Jr., struggles to live up to everyone's expectations until a cruel twist of fate forces him underground, where he learns that a former friend has written a satirical book based on his life.
19) Ulysses
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Ulysses draws upon a complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature (including a framework and episodes that echo the Odyssey) to document an ordinary day in the lives of three Dubliners. Regarded today as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses entered the world in a firestorm of controversy. Denounced as obscure, unintelligible, nonsensical, and obscene, it was first published in Paris in 1922...
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