Dog Man: Fetch-22

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9781338323214

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741 PIL d

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a compelling adventure story with richly drawn characters and has earned a place in both literary and American history.

A Little Lower Than The Angels

Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad-tempered stonemason. But God Himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel. But will Gabriel's new life with the travelling players be any more secure?

How To Be a Real Person

My dad doesn't know. The neighbors don't know. My school doesn't know. My mom sure doesn't know. But Ican handle it. Because if people can change one way, they can change the other way, right?

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.

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…

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…

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

Fireflies in Manhattan

Marno took out a cigarette, then stood and went to the window. Lowering his gaze he looked at the jungle of skyscrapers. They appeared to be asleep. The pale moonlight made them look cold and hard. A feeling of emptiness and loneliness surged within him. from the short story “A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan” ------- Born in Ngawi, East Java, in 1932, Umar Kayam obtained his masters…