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  Angela's Ashes

  A Memoir

  by Frank McCourt

  "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and... (more)
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  The Magdalene Line: Book 1

  The Expected One

  A Novel

  by Kathleen McGowan

  THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD! A POLITICAL RIVALRY THAT ENDED IN TWO EXECUTIONS AN INTRICATE LOVE TRIANGLE THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY A RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Two thousand years ago, Mary Magdalene hid a set of scrolls in the rocky foothills of the French Pyrenees, a gospel that contained her own version of the events and characters of the New Testament. Protected by... (more)
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  A Painted House

  by John Grisham

  The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the... (more)
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  The Dark Tower: Book 2

  The Drawing of the Three

  by Stephen King

  The Drawing of the Three is the second volume in Stephen King's remarkable cycle of the Dark Tower, inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem. The first volume, The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger, relates how Roland, the last gunslinger in a world that has "moved on," pursues and eventually catches up with the sorcerer known as the man in black. It is a tale of science-fantasy that is unlike any tale that... (more)
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  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men... (more)
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  Another Country

  by James Baldwin

  Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst... (more)
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  The Regulators

  by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

  On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon, whose supernatural powers are just awakening. 1,250,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.
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  The Plague Dogs

  by Richard Adams

  Richard Adams moves us more deeply than he has ever done with his impassioned vision of the fate of animals at our mercy, with his splendid tale of flight and pursuit, with the three creatures whose story he tells. Two dogs escape one night from an animal experimentation laboratory in the English Lake District. Weakened by their ordeals, unused to freedom, the two runaways are scarcely prepared for survival in... (more)
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  Kent Family Chronicles (aka The Bicentennial Series): Book 1

  The Bastard

  by John Jakes

  The bold, glittering saga of our America- and the people who made her great.Set against the rich fabric of our heritage, and the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to a fledging nation, this vibrant novel of romance and adventure introduces a stunning new historical figure to excite the imaginings of future generations: Phillipe Charboneau- THE BASTARD.Illegitimate son of an English... (more)
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  Juliet

  by Anne Fortier

  Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie's twin sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key--one carried by her mother on the day she herself died--to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy. This key sends Julie on a journey that... (more)
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  The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  by emily m. danforth

  When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival... (more)