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  • THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX
    THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX
    O"FARRELL, MAGGIE
    Maggie O'Farrell's captivating and critically acclaimed gothic tale of family secrets and the irrepressible freedom that truth brings Chic and independent, Iris Lockhart is tending to her vintage-clothing shop in Edinburgh (and evading her married boyfriend) when she receives a stunning phone call: her great-aunt Esme—whom she never knew existed—is being released from Cauldst...
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    Q. 200

  • A THREE DOG LIFE
    A THREE DOG LIFE
    THOMAS, ABIGAIL
    When Abigail Thomas's husband, Rich, was hit by a car, his brain shattered. Subject to rages, terrors, and hallucinations, he must live the rest of his life in an institu-tion. He has no memory of what he did the hour, the day, the year before. This tragedy is the ground on which Abigail had to build a new life. How she built that life is a story of great courage and great chan...
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    Q. 180

  • LE PETIT PRINCE (FRENCH)
    LE PETIT PRINCE (FRENCH)
    DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE
    In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his...
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    Q. 150

  • FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
    FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
    KEYES, DANIEL
    Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his in...
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    Q. 200

  • THE GROUP
    THE GROUP
    MARY MCCARTHY
    Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, "The Group" is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars.Mary McCarthy s most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as the group. An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to...
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    Q. 170

  • MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD
    MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD
    MARY MCCARTHY
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    Q. 185

  • REGULUS
    REGULUS
    DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE
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    Q. 210

  • TOLSTOY
    TOLSTOY
    ROSAMUND BARTLETT
    “Magisterial sweep and scale.”—The Independent (UK)In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, with a growing international following, and more revered than the tsar. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy had spent his life rebelling against not only conventional ideas about li...
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    Q. 345

  • THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
    THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
    HAMID, MOHSIN
    "Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel." --Washington Post "One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader." --Junot Diaz At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought...
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    Q. 150

  • FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
    FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
    DANIELA KEYES
    Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. ...
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    Q. 105

  • LIFE OF PI
    LIFE OF PI
    YANN MARTEL / MARTEL, YANN
    This brilliant novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale, " as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with four wild animals. His knowledge and cunning allow him to coexist for 227 days with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. ...
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    Q. 160

  • ANIMAL FARM AND 1984
    ANIMAL FARM AND 1984
    ORWELL, GEORGE / A. M. HEATH
    George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball e...
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    Q. 260

  • BLINDNESS
    BLINDNESS
    JOSE SARAMAGO
    A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. u003cpu003e An International Bestseller - "This is a shattering work by a literary master."--Boston Globe u003cpu003e A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental h...
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    Q. 180

  • WINTER HOURS
    WINTER HOURS
    OLIVER, MARY
    "On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, accompanied by a brief sele...
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    Q. 180

  • THE FOLLOWING STORY
    THE FOLLOWING STORY
    CEES NOOTEBOOM
    Herman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man’s wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. ...
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    Q. 135

  • THE GREAT KAPOK TREE
    THE GREAT KAPOK TREE
    LYNNE CHERRY
    A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. u003cpu003e Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest's residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the impo...
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    Q. 110

  • FREE TO CHOOSE
    FREE TO CHOOSE
    MILTON FRIEDMAN / ROSE FRIEDMAN
    In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. The Friedmans also provide remed...
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    Q. 180

  • BURMESE DAYS
    BURMESE DAYS
    ORWELL, GEORGE
    Honest and evocative, George Orwell's first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eBurmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma--where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman--during ...
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    Q. 170

  • LO ESENCIAL EN METABOLISMO Y NUTRICIÓN
    LO ESENCIAL EN METABOLISMO Y NUTRICIÓN
    SARAH BENYON
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    Q. 230

  • TANGERINE
    TANGERINE
    EDWARD BLOOR
    Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, Florida. Where else does a sinkhole swallow the local school, fire burn underground for years, and lightning strike at the same time every day?The chaos is compounded b...
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    Q. 90

  • THE PHANTOM NINJA
    THE PHANTOM NINJA
    GREG FARSHTEY / JOLYON YATES
    A factory in Ninjago Village is under siege by an unstoppable new menace, with the beloved mayor and his daughter held hostage! Only Nya, Jay, Cole, and Kai -- the Masters of Spinjitzu -- can save the day . . . or are they? Much to the brave warriors' astonishment, a new gray ninja is on the scene! Is the Phantom Ninja friend or foe, and will his reckless fighting style sabotag...
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    Q. 70

  • ORLANDO
    ORLANDO
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. "A poetic masterpiece of the first rank" (Rebecca West). The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature ...
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    Q. 150

  • THREE GUINEAS
    THREE GUINEAS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and "protect culture, and intellectual liberty." This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose. ...
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    Q. 140

  • MRS. DALLOWAY
    MRS. DALLOWAY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Direct and vivid in its telling of the details of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, the novel manages ultimately to deliver much more. It is the feelings that loom behind those daily events--the social alliances, the shopkeeper's exchange, the fact of death--that give Mrs. Dalloway texture and richness. ...
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    Q. 140

  • A WRITER'S DIARY
    A WRITER'S DIARY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Prefa...
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    Q. 160

  • ODD GIRL SPEAKS OUT
    ODD GIRL SPEAKS OUT
    RACHEL SIMMONS
    The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers, counselors, young professional women, even fathers, came to Rachel with hear...
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    Q. 150

  • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immor...
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    Q. 165

  • THREE GUINEAS
    THREE GUINEAS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    "Three Guineas" is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gend...
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    Q. 180

  • ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY
    ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotate...
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    Q. 160

  • BETWEEN THE ACTS
    BETWEEN THE ACTS
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant, made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the heart of the country as personal dramas simmer and World War II looms ...
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    Q. 190