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M Twain
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg -... more
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Joe Dunthorne
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ("Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner") and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, "a hippy-looking twonk", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile,... more
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Paul Auster
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself... more
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George Eliot ,
A S Byatt
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2003]
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From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences... more
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Ru Freeman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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A Disobedient Girl' is an epic, heartbreaking novel about the linked destinies of two women, set against the backdrop of beautiful, politically turbulent Sri Lanka. Since her days in the orphanage, Latha has been a companion and servant to Thara, a more fortunate girl her own age. But since her... more
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Charles Dickens
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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'All the truth of my position came flashing on me, and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kind, rushed in.' A chance encounter with an escaped convict on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the eccentric Miss Havisham, jilted some twenty years before on her wedding day... more
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Stephen Kelman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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About the Book : Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman is cloaked in urban severity. It deals with serious issues like troubles faced by immigrants, gang warfare and murder. It’s a tale of gang-warfare with menacing murder of Damilola Taylor. Harrison Opoku, the central character and the narrator of the book... more
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Will Davis
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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'"And the name of the girl through to next week is..." says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to death with her own stupid mic, her even stupider skin tight dress all stained with oozing gore...' Thousands of wannabes... more
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Laleh Khadivi
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Kurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green-eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud hut to gaze at the dusty landscape; the jagged mountains and azure sky, the cattle in the distance. With his arms stretched out beside him... more
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Mahbod Seraji
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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From aa striking new talenta(Sandra Dallas, author of "Tallgrass") comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming... more
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Nicole Richie
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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A wonderfully entertaining riches-to-rags story with the glitz of a celebrity mag exposé, mixed with an old-fashioned tale of comeuppance and self discovery. Meet Charlotte Williams? Rich, gorgeous, blonde and a talented singer, she has everything going for her. Spoiled and indulged, her life has always revolved around fashion, gossip,... more
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Jean Kwok
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn't quite live up to their expectations - living in a vermin-ridden apartment in Brooklyn, the pair only have a sometimes working oven to... more
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Eleanor Catton
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In the aftermath of a high-school sex scandal caused by a teacher's affair with an underaged student, a group of teenage girls becomes the focus of public scrutiny. After a local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a play, the boundaries between private and public, and fact and... more
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David Whitehouse
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Description: WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTH GETTING OUT OF BED FOR? Mal isn't like the other kids. So remarkable is his childhood that his family waits for the incredible things he seems born to do. Then one day he goes to bed, never to get out again. Recounted by Mal's younger... more
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Marcelo Figueras ,
Frank Wynne
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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In the forecourt of a petrol station outside of Buenos Aires, a father says goodbye to his son: 'Kamchatka,' he whispers softly into his ear. And then they part, forever. A ten-year-old boy lives in world of Superman comics and games of Risk - a world in which men have... more
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Louisa May Alcott
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010]
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Written by the author of "Little Women" and "Little Men", this is the story of an orphan who has no choice but to go and live at the "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. For someone who was used to a girl's boarding school, it all... more
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Louisa May Alcott
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2005]
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Description: Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is commonly considered to be the last novel in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. It takes place ten years after Little Men and follows the children from that book into adulthood. Out in the world they... more
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John Connolly
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2007]
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Bestselling author John Connolly turns his unique imagination to the ancient tradition of legend and fairytale in this engrossing novel about the loss of innocence and the enduring power of story in our lives. In his attic bedroom, 12-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and... more
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Larry Doyle
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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A side-splittingly funny debut novel which follows the graduation night coming-of-age of a high school valedictorian who--instead of giving the usual speech--publicly confesses his eternal love for the most popular girl in school. Denis Cooverman didn't want to give a typical graduation speech, cherishing memories and embracing challenges and crap.... more
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Budge Wilson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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This remarkable and heart-warming prequel to the classic "Anne of Green Gables" has been specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. Before she arrived at Green Gables, young Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby,... more