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Katharine McMahon
(4,587)
Summary: There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A gripping tale of a book-smart young woman's sensual...
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Jhumpa Lahiri
(239,042)
Summary: Now a major motion picture! The namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the...
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![A portrait of the artist as a young man [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34783@2x.jpg)
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James Joyce
Summary: This fictionalised portrait of Joyce's youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood. Dublin at the turn of the century provides the backdrop as Stephen Dedalus...
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Stewart O'Nan
(1,881)
Summary: Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974, experiencing the confusing pangs of adolescence and the pain of his parents' divorce. His world is shattered further by the sudden and...
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Sharon Creech
(155,720)
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Jerry Spinelli
(25,558)
Summary: He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a...
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Tony Earley
(967)
Summary: Seven years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Tony Earley's bestseller Jim the boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in another tender and...
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Robert Cormier
(42,578)
Summary: Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less...
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Carrie Brown
(958)
Summary: At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for...
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John Grisham
Summary: A moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
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![American wife [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/41242@2x.jpg)
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Curtis Sittenfeld
(52,260)
Summary: Alice Blackwell is the president's wife, the former school librarian is thrust into a position of power and influence, privilege and responsibility. During her husband's second term she must face contradictions when her beliefs disagree with his.
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![Bleak House [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42673@2x.jpg)
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Charles Dickens
(99,811)
Summary: Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many...
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![The prime of Miss Jean Brodie [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42719@2x.jpg)
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Muriel Spark
(43,830)
Summary: In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of...
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Charles Dickens
(40,591)
Summary: The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman's son fallen...
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![The adventures of Tom Sawyer [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42783@2x.jpg)
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Mark Twain
(781,627)
Summary: A humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town during the mid-1800's.
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![David Copperfield [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42794@2x.jpg)
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Charles Dickens
(203,217)
Summary: David Copperfield firmly embraces the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood. It is a timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to...
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Olive Ann Burns
(98,537)
Summary: Tom Parker's enlightened reading greatly enhances the emotive effect of the novel. With an impressive array of consistently natural voices, he involves the listener directly in the drama of the...
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Charles Dickens
(670,446)
Summary: Standing as one of the most revered works in all of English literature, 'Great expectations' traces the development of Philip Pirrip, called Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations to a man of depth...
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Charles Dickens
(328,275)
Summary: With the publication of this fiercely comic second novel, Charles Dickens's eminent literary reputation was firmly established. "Oliver Twist" was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal...
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Jane Austen
(676,966)
Summary: First published in 1816 and considered one of Jane Austen's finest works, Emma is a humorous portrayal of a heroine whose injudicious interferences in the life of a young parlour-boarder in a...
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Henry James
Summary: Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, N.Y., her mischievous small son, Randolph, and her daughter,...
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George Eliot
(100,448)
Summary: Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of 19th century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social...
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Rudyard Kipling
Summary: This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, living characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a character transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a...
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![The god of animals [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44630@2x.jpg)
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Aryn Kyle
Summary: When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bed-ridden mother, a reticent, overworked father, and a...
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![South of Broad [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45410@2x.jpg)
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Pat Conroy
(42,950)
Summary: The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship. Against the sumptuous...
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![Someday this pain will be useful to you [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45517@2x.jpg)
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Peter Cameron
(12,890)
Summary: Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.
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![The last song [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46056@2x.jpg)
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Nicholas Sparks
(512,806)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina. Three years later her mother decides it would be in...
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![The magicians [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/47335@2x.jpg)
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Lev Grossman
(241,272)
Summary: A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly...
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William Golding
(2,335,288)
Summary: William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and reviting works in modern fiction. At once a tale of adventure and a merciless allegory on...
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![Push [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48712@2x.jpg)
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Sapphire
(48,454)
Summary: An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem...
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![The girl who fell from the sky [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48788@2x.jpg)
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Heidi W Durrow
(27,848)
Summary: The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided...
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Aimee Bender
(61,758)
Summary: On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake...
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A. S. Byatt
(17,003)
Summary: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian era through World War I and centers around a famous children's book author and the...
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![The last summer (of you and me) [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60958@2x.jpg)
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Ann Brashares
(30,514)
Summary: The highly anticipated first novel for adults from the bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the traveling pants series. There are over seven million copies of the first three novels in Ann...
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Martha Grimes
(1,307)
Summary: When twelve-year-old Emma Graham and her friends discover the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, Emma is determined to discover its secrets.
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![An unfinished season [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61125@2x.jpg)
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Ward S Just
(932)
Summary: The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s. It was a time of rabid...
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Gregory Galloway
Summary: When the enigmatic Anastasia shows up in the halls of Hamilton High, the narrator finds his life changes greatly. She opens his mind to Burroughs, Baudelaire, Chet Baker, and Mozart. She reveals a...
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Catherine Marshall
(49,913)
Summary: Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
(112,732)
Summary: Madeleine Hanna was the dutiful English major who didn't get the memo. While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot. But now,...
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James Agee
(14,237)
Summary: The tragedy of Jay Follet's sudden death destroys his family's secure and loving world.
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