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Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resoluti…
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- 9780143104919
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- 243p; bw; pbk
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- 823 SIL c
Sula
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent. Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.…
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- 9781400033430
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- 174p; bw; pbk
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- 823 MOR s
The Kite Runner
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime." Khaled Hosseini's #1 New York Times Bestselling Debut Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashums. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Am…
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- 9781594632204
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- 401p; bw; pbk
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- 823 HOS k
Lifegame
When Fella and his best friend Grebe manage to escape from the sinister island on which they grew up, they just want to start afresh. But Fella took something with him - the diary, hidden all his life, that was brought with him to Orphanage 206. When they discover what it contains, he and Grebe can't stop searching for more clues about where he came from.
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- 9780192728432
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- 339p; bw; pbk
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- 823.92 ALL l
Between Two Worlds
Sarah Winnemucca is the granddaughter of a great Pauiute Indian chief who believes in learning the ways of the white people and making peace with them.
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- 0590457551
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- 184p; bw; pbk
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- Apple Paperbacks
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- 823 RAN B
A Woman Of Bangkok
Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, A Woman of Bangkok was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one of the most memorable in literature s long line of b…
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- 9789810854300
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- 328p; bw; pbk
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- 823.91 REY w
The Cay
Phillip is excited when Germans invade the small island of Curacao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand - until the freighter he and his mother are traveling on to the United States is torpedoed.
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- 9780440416630
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- 137p; bw; pbk
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- 823 TAY T
Not The End Of The World
Everyone knows the story of the Flood, the men God chose to survive, the animals that went in two by two. But what about the others that sailed on the Ark - the women and the children? This adventure story asks what it was really like when the heavens opened and the world drowned - and what might have happened in the days that followed. wife, Zillah, concerned for the welfare of the animals; th…
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- 9780192754325
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- 174p; bw; pbk
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- 823.914 MCC n
Extraordinary Means
From the author of The Beginning of Everything: two teens with a deadly disease fall in love on the brink of a cure. At seventeen, overachieving Lane finds himself at Latham House, a sanatorium for teens suffering from an incurable strain of tuberculosis. Part hospital and part boarding school, Latham is a place of endless rules and confusing rituals, where it's easier to fail breakfast than…
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- 9780062392558
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- 823 SCH e
The Trumpet of The Swan
Louis is scared when his father tells him that he's different from other swans. He doesn't want to be different. Even though he can't talk, Louis knows he could learn to read and write, if only he could get into school. Sam Beaver, a boy understands all wild things, agrees to help. But Mrs. Hammerbotham isn't sure she can handle a Trumpeter Swan in her classroom.
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- 9780590406192
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- 210p; ill; bw; pbk
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- 823 WHI t
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