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Kafka on the shore
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recover from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for a reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he canno…
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- 9780307275264
- Collation
- 489 p. ; 18 cm.
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- SS F MUR k
A map of days
After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather
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- 9780141385921
- Collation
- 480 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ; 4
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- SS F RIG m
Hollow city
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world
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- 9781594747359
- Collation
- 399 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ; 2
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- SS F RIG h
Miss peregrine's home for peculiar children
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there
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- 9781594746031
- Collation
- 382 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ; 1
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- SS F RIG m
The outsiders
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy
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- 9780142407332
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- 180, 24 p ; 21 cm.
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- SS F HIN o
The kite runner
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being de…
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- 9781408845820
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- xiv, 371 p. ; 21 cm.
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- SS F HOS k
Ties that bind, ties that break
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound
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- 9780440415992
- Collation
- 154 p. ; 17 cm.
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- SS F NAM t
The hiding place
The amazing story of Corrie ten Boom, a heroine of the Dutch Resistance who helped Jews escape from the Nazis and became one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20th century, is told in her classic memoir, now repackaged for a new generation
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- 9780800794057
- Collation
- 269 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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- SS 940.534 TEN h
The house on mango street
The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings
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- 9780679734772
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- x, 110 p. ; 21 cm.
- Series Title
- Vintage contemporaries
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- SS F CIS h
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