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What do readers say about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
smartly written interesting and moving one of the best books ever funny, sad, touchingTHE BESTSELLING NOVEL
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THEN THE POLICE arrived. I like the police. They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing. There was a policewoman and a policeman. The policewoman had a little hole in h...
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What do readers say about Night Film?
overwrought and over-italicized mixed media format the mysterious character cordova a very unusual novelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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A large chandelier showered golden light on the crowd as I surveyed the party in the bronze mirror over the mantel. I was startled to spot someone I barely recognized: myself. Blue button-down, sports...
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What do readers say about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
dreamlike and surreal surreal and psychedelic plain but addictive fluid and funThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath t... More details on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for...
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He's used to risking it all in the ring, but nothing prepared him for love… After flying half-way around the world to surprise her boyfriend, Evie Forrester finds herself heartbroken and stranded in a strange city. What could be a total disaster beco... More details on Tanner
That’s right, he’d said she smelled like home, and then he’d kissed her and her world had turned on its head. Even though it had been nearly three months since that night, she could still feel his arm...
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What do readers say about Stig of the Dump?
modern classic kids book a school book simple, silly, and fun I absolutely loveA boy befriends a young caveman in this modern children's classic of friendship and adventure.
Barney isn't supposed to go near the chalk pit. His grandmother and sister both told him the edge could give way and he could fall in-but what else is he... More details on Stig of the Dump
IF YOU went too near the edge of the chalk pit the ground would give way. Barney had been told this often enough. Everybody had told him. His grandmother, every time he came to stay with her. His sist...
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What do readers say about Educated?
descriptive and complex disturbing and truly heart-wrenching clear and engaging sad and frightening#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER
One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambr... More details on Educated
My strongest memory is not a memory. It’s something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had happened. The memory was formed when I was five, just before I turned six, from a story my father tol...
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What do readers say about In Order to Live?
really interesting autobio a slight tangent life changing read remarkable story of hope"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park
"One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller
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The Yalu River winds like the tail of a dragon between China and North Korea on its way to the Yellow Sea. At Hyesan it opens into a valley in the Paektu Mountains, where the city of 200,000 sprawls b...
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What do readers say about This House of Sky?
dense, elegant, and surprising lyrically and beautifully written beautiful and compelling growing up in montanaA haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers ... More details on This House of Sky
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What do readers say about House of Leaves?
complexity and inventiveness pretentious and boring existentialist horror story pretentious & highfalutin"A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." -The New York Times
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled... More details on House of Leaves
§Provide examples of hand shadows ranging from crabs, snails, rabbits,and turtles to dragons, panthers, tigers, and kangaroos. Also includehippos, frogs, elephants, birds of paradise, dogs, cockatoos,...
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What do readers say about Kiss an Angel?
relationship believable romance story hugely enjoyable, very funny one of the most emotional and specialPretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix?
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She caught her bottom lip between her teeth. Her father had introduced them several days ago, that terrible morning the three of them had gone to get the marriage license, and she’d heard the name the...
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