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Beartown volume 3
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place...
2) Solitaire
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"Tori Spring is tired of everything. She used to be able to deal with people, mostly because she ahd to. Now she can barely function in the ridiculousness of a school environment. She's bord. She's frustrated. She's worried about her brother Charlie. And she's not sure what she should do about anything. She wants he world to leave her alone. But the world has other ideas. A random Post-It leads Tori on a trail by someone going by the name...
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"Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
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Emily Wilde volume 1
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"Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives...
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"A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Maxico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. the first is the world of his grandfather's wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world--modern, industrial America--pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his sould, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity...
6) Hakyoku
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Watashi o habamu mono wa, watakushijishin ni hokanaranai. Ragubī,-kin tore, koi to sekkusū futari no on'na o yukikisuru ibitsuna kyanpasu raifu. 28-Sai no kisai ga hanatsu, shin jidai no kyomu.
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"Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape. The arrival of independence brings new upheavals as well as the betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government, fearful of an exodus of its most able men, discourages young people from travelling abroad and refuses to release examination results. Deprived of a scholarship, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope...
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"Michael Nye's second collection of stories, Until We Have Faces, contend with transfixing themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of trespass, the intractable mysteries and frights of modern life, the uncertainty of knowledge and truth, the gulfs between people and the technology we use, the frailty of our economic lives--while underlining throughout the persistency of love." --Provided by publisher.
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"It is early 2017 in New York City, Donald Trump is President, and Solomon Fields, a young Jewish journalist-turned-advertising hack, finds himself disillusioned by the hollowness and conformity of American life and language. Once brimming with dreams and ideals instilled in him by his eternally bohemian grandmother, a survivor of the Holocaust who has dedicated her life to passion and pleasure, Sol now finds the senseless jargon he produces at work...
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McNally editions volume 10
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"'The bisexual draft dodger living on the skids, the glamorous young widow in search of enlightenment, the skinny gamine from out of town who wants to make it in the movies . . .' These are the people who inhabit Gavin Lambert's mordant portrait of Southern California at the end of the 1960s: forever swapping addresses, lovers, and dreams. They live in extraordinary, suffocating wealth; or else flirting with a Mansonesque cult; or else in a fantasy...
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"Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have...
12) Memory piece
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"In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. 'Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,' they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never...
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"Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home, Elinor...
14) Qiu jing ge qian
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Lian he wen xue volume 751
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"Qiū jīng gēqiǎn” de gùshì bèijǐng shèdìng zài 2017 nián, zhǔjiǎo sūyuèqiū shì xīn yímín xuéshēng, shìyìng bùliǎo xiānggǎng de shēnghuó, zìjué shì `yìxiāng rén'; lìng yī zhǔjiǎo yóu mǐn er shì sūyuèqiū de lǎoshī, suī zài gǎng tǔshēngtǔzhǎng, ài yú zhèngzhì fēnwéi jí shèhuì xiàn kuàng, yě shēngchū `cǐdì tāxiāng'zhī gǎn. Tāmen bǐcǐ yīkào, yòng yuèdú dàng zuò `táoshēng...
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"One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Mátyás, has gone missing. A search of the rig confirms his fear that Mátyás has fallen into the sea. Grief-stricken, he embarks on an epic emotional and physical journey that takes him to Morocco, to Budapest and Mátyás's hometown in Hungary, to Malta, Italy, and finally to the mining town of his childhood in Germany....
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