The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.

Heidi

I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth! When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather, everyone in the village feels sorry for her. What will a little girl do in such an isolated home, and with such a grumpy companion? But Heidi soon discovers a secret: Grandfather isn't nearly as cross as he looks—plus she can play…

Old School

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself. The agency o…

The best American short stories 2014

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9780547868868

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813.010806 EGA b

Madame Bovary

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opule…

Madame Bovary

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9780451418500

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823 FLA M

Madame Bovary

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9781853260780

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Ape House

Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets, especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena, who are capable of reason and communication through American Sign Language. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans--until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter writing a huma…

Don Quixote

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9780375756993

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1132p; bw; pbk

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863.3 CER d

The Book Of The Laughter And Forgetting

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9780060932145

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891.8635 KUN b