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22) Glamorama
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Action man Victor Ward, owner of a New York nightclub, is hired by a man to fly to London and find his missing daughter. The assignment leads Ward to an international terrorist ring, run by a fashion model.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend's lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through...
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Series
Pub. Date
2006.
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An astonishing debut novel by a ���once-in-a-generation talent��� (George Saunders), The People of Paper is a beautiful lamentation, the sad love song of two men left behind by the women they love. Federico de la Fe is a loving father and husband, but when his wife disappears he and his daughter must start a new life together. They leave their home in Mexico and head for California. On the way they meet an assortment of people, including...
27) Burn fortune
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In this novel-in-fragments, 16-year-old June is a corn-detasseling flag twirler who lives in a small conservative town in the early 90s Midwest. Her family is dysfunctional but her boyfriend--known only as "My Boyfriend"--has a family who is emotionally and physically abusive. Looking for alternatives to the lives of the women who surround her, June becomes obsessed with the actress Jean Seberg (best known for her starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's...
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2019.
Description
Vivo con Danny, y he aprendido tanto de ©♭l… he aprendido los principios para ser un buen piloto de carreras. Equilibrio, anticipaci©đn, paciencia. ©stas son lecciones muy importantes, tanto para la vida como para una pista de carreras. Danny es un verdadero campe©đn, aunque no todos lo vean as©Ư, porque Danny tiene responsabilidades. Tiene a su hija Zo©±, y tiene a su esposa Eve. Y me tiene a m©Ư. Lo que m©Łs me gusta es...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters,...
31) S
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Pub. Date
c2013
Description
"The chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand."--Back of container.Contents of inserted items: 2 sheets of "Konfidentiell" letter dated August 17, 1928 ( between pages vi, vii) -- Note on Pollard State University stationary starting "VMS ACCUSED OF" (between pages 10, 11) -- Copy of page from Toronto Review for History and Humanities (between...
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Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. It points to the short-comings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature. While some literary critics situate metafiction within the domain of postmodernism, others regard it to be as old as storytelling itself. Scholars of African American literature acknowledge it to be a distinguishing feature. Critics such as Henry Louis...
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"This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which,...
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Pub. Date
2010.
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From the cover. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon -- private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in LA, and Doc knows that...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Evaluating his llife on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master Denny Swift has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
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