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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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Charles Dickens
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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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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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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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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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Ru Freeman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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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 trip to the hill country when she caught her first glimpse of a rose, Latha has known she was destined for a better life. For... more
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Jean Kwok
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn. Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they... 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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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 epub 2012]
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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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Joe Dunthorne
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Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe Dunthorne NOW AN ACCLAIMED FILM BY RICHARD AYOADE Meet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. 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... more
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Budge Wilson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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This prequel to "Anne of Green Gables" "takes on a rich, real life of its own...I was rapt." (Washington Post) For the millions of readers who devoured the Green Gables series, "Before Green Gables" is an irresistible treat; the account of how one of literature's most beloved heroines became the... more
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John Connolly
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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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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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
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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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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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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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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David Whitehouse
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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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 brother,... more
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Nicole Richie
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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
