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The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
5) Keep quiet
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2014.
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When they are involved in a terrible car accident, Jake Whitmore makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies and secrecy where a dangerous enemy comes forward threatening to expose them.
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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays...
11) Quiver
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
12) Disobedience
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
463 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
13) A fine line
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 19
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
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Redhook
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
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The son of a fortune teller, who was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, befriends a grumpy old widower and proves his friendship by getting stopped at the border by customs with a large bag of marijuana and an urn full of ashes.
15) Gunpowder empire
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Crosstime traffic volume 1
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Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
17) Secret father
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
637 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
18) Canada
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
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432 p. ; 24 cm.
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Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.
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