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In his stories, Saunders explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. Wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned, the stories challenge and surprise as they encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. -- adapted from back cover
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, MORNING STAR is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun. One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
8) Peace
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Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From saying hello and pronouncing your friend's name correctly to giving more than you take and saying I'm sorry, this simple concept book explores definitions of peace and actions small and big that foster it"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Magic is the mesmerizing new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's most beloved writers"-- Provided by publisher.
"A dazzling contemporary novel that vividly portrays the glamorous White Dinners that occur annually in Paris, and the ups and downs of three interconnected couples for whom the dinners have become a tradition. The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance,...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"Maggie, married to a bore who doesn't appreciate her, promises that from now on she's going to stand up for herself. Ella, an artistic interior designer, promises that from now on her head is going to rule over her heart. Ethan, struggling in a lifeless marriage, promises that there will be no more women. But when Ella appears unexpectedly on Ethan's doorstep, he finds himself turning to her for very different reasons. And when the hero of Maggie's...
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"From the USA Today bestselling author of The House on Mermaid Point comes a powerful novel about secrets, loyalty, and the bonds of true friendship. Twenty years ago, Emma Michaels, Mackenzie Hayes, and Serena Stockton bonded over their New York City dreams. Then, each summer, they solidified their friendship by spending one week at the lake together, solving their problems over bottles of wine and gallons of ice cream. They kept the tradition for...
15) What I carry
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system"--
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Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to-- volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Charlie Joe Jackson is back and he's at academic summer camp trying to convert all the other kids to non-academics."-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases. But then a twelve-year-old girl shows...
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Publisher
Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In her quartet of novellas, Joan Frank invites readers into the inner lives of characters bewildered by love, grief, and inexplicable affinities. A young couple navigates a strange friendship and unexpected pregnancy; a woman recalls the bizarre fallout of her former lover's fame; a lonely widow is drawn to an arrogant young man; a wealthy spiritual seeker grapples with what wealth cannot affect. Witty and humane, Frank taps the riches of the novella...
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