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1) Two roads
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In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
2) East of Eden
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
4) Change up
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The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 3
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Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
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154 pages, 22 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.
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Young Derek's dream of sailing to a championship under his father's coaching is complicated by unexpected challenges.
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Viking
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[2019]
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294 pages ; 22 cm
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"A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper...
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Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he’d been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he seems eager to give his son a new start. Youssef leaves his mother behind to live a life of luxury, until a reversal of fortune sends him...
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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
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xii, 194 pages ; 22 cm
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"A lyrical and unique memoir, from one of our finest writers, proving that life can be as strange as fiction. Howard Norman's life has been framed by five incidents of 'arresting strangeness,' each given its chapter -- and each chapter yielding clues to the improbable trajectory of a fascinating life. First, a portrait, both harrowing and humorous, of a Midwest boyhood summer under the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend. Later, he spends...
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