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1) Swann's way
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Language
English
Description
Swanns Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
2) On the road
Author
Language
English
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Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the Donner Party tragedy told through the journal entries and letters of Tamsen Donner, the wife of George Donner, the leader of the party that, in 1846, set out for California and wound up trapped for four months in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Here are the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale - a young film star and drug addict - who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. This stunning literary debut - read by author and actress Carrie Fisher herself - evokes the deliciously irreverent humor...
6) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From one of the most highly acclaimed writers at work today: his most intimate and epic work yet--an autobiographical novel of sex and love, family and friendship. Inside Story had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that the novel unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and...
9) Hippie
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Randon House, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived t
11) The pledge
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Language
English
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Description
A foreign correspondent is targeted by the US government after aligning with the Communist Party for a controversial story In what many consider his most autobiographical novel, bestselling author Howard Fast revisits the McCarthy-era anticommunist witch hunts he endured during his years as a member of the Communist Party. In The Pledge, Bruce Bacon, a war correspondent stationed in Bengal near the end of World War II, investigates a terrible famine...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradition.”—The Boston Globe
Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children...
Pat Conroy’s great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. As the oldest of seven children...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.
You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist "rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion." It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through...
14) Hippie
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life: first on the famous "Death Train"...
15) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
16) Sons and lovers
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Series
Language
English
Description
Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, fastidious Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul--determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp by entering into relationships with other women. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a highly autobiographical...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
18) Search: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This novel, written in the form of a memoir, follows the members of a search committee as they seek a new pastor for their church congregation. The narrator is a restaurant-review writer; meals at local restaurants and in committee members' homes occur in the course of the story. Recipes for twenty-five of the dishes are included--
19) Little boy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and...
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Series
My struggle volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The fourth installment in the eagerly awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series. Book Four finds an eighteen year old Karl Ove in a tiny fishing village in Northern Norway, where he has been hired as a a schoolteacher and is living on his own for the first time. When the ferocious winter takes hold, Karl Ove in the company of the Hafjord locals, a warm and earthy group who have spent their lives working, drinking, and joking together...
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