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My Pillow Keeps MovingA lonely man tries to buy a pillow . . . and ends up with a new best friend in this silly and sweet doggy tale, perfect for fans of Officer Buckle and Gloria. Dogs make good pillows, don't they? A clever pup ends...
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Tico and the Golden WingsA classic fable encouraging generosity and individuality, from four-time Caldecott Honor-winner Leo Lionni. Tico, a little bird born without wings, is one day granted his dearest wish. But the wings he gets are made of gold and his bird friends turn against him. "You...
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AngrymanKirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019 USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2020 There's someone in the living room. It's Dad. It is Angryman. Boj's father can be very angry and violent. Boj calls this side of his father's personality "Angryman." When Angryman comes...
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Herman the HelperHerman the Helper about an octopus that is always willing to assist anyone who needs his help. Old or young, friend or enemy, Herman the octopus is here to provide aid to those in need--no matter who they are. Herman the Helper is ready...
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Mark Twain's Civil War: The Private History of a Campaign That FailedFrom the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this...
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1996This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government. This domestic spying both destroys the peace and tranquiAuthor: Gloria NaylorPublisher: Third World PressPublished: 12/01/2005Pages: 175Binding...
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Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His YouthThe sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his...
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Who They WasLonglisted for the Booker PrizeNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReadsNamed a Best Book of 2021 by Time An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English...
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La Muerte del PadreThia book introduces American readers to the international literary sensation that is the six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of literary originality that is intensely readable.Author: Karl Ove KnausgaardPublisher: AnagramaPublished:...
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One Spoon on This EarthAn autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, One Spoon on this Earth stands a sort of digest of contemporary Korean history as it might be seen through the lens of one man's life and opinions.Author: Hyun Ki-YoungPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 11/16/2013Pages: 330Binding...
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SupremacistA loosely autobiographical novel inspired by an obsession for the global fashion phenomenon and brand, Supreme. David travels with his friend Camilla from New York to Japan and England to visit every Supreme store location on the globe. Supremacist is equal parts travel diary...
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Agnes GreyIn her daring first novel, the youngest Brontë sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë was a young middle-class Victorian lady whose family fortunes had faltered. Like so many other...
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Paris 1928: Nexus IIPublished for the first time in English, Paris 1928 (Nexus II) continues in true Henry Miller fashion the narrative begun in Nexus, the third volume of the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy. A rough draft that Miller ultimately abandoned, the story describes Miller's first wondrous glimpse...
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In Black and WhiteJun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When...
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Fitting into America During the PandemicHow will you survive in a different country? This is the story of a ten-year-old girl who settles in the United States, an autobiographical realistic fiction set just before the strike of the pandemic. She moved in the late summer of 2019 and has...
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Tokyo FiancéeAuthor: Amélie NothombPublisher: Europa EditionsPublished: 12/30/2008Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.28h x 5.20w x 0.45dISBN: 9781933372648Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2008 pg. 1177Publishers Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 42New York Times Book Review 01/04/2009 pg. 15New York Times Book Review 01/11/2009 pg. 18Library Journal Annex...
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La Loca de la Casa / The Crazed Woman Inside MeUn libro sobre la fantas a y los sue os, sobre la locura y la pasi n, sobre los miedos y las dudas de los escritores, pero tambi n de los lectores. Este libro es una novela, un ensayo, una autobiograf a. La loca...
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Nowhere ManA native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992--just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee....
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The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of...
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Little Brother: A Refugee's OdysseyBased on the author's own life, this heartbreaking novel about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis--for readers of The Lost Children's Archive and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the...
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