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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…
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- 9789798083846
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- 200p; bw; pbk
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- 899.2213 KAY f
Botchan
Written in 1904 by Soseki Natsume, the foremost novelist of the Meiji period, Botchan is the story of a simple, honest, and direct young man from Tokyo who teaches high school in the provinces.
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- 9780804837033
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- 188p; bw; pbk
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- 895.6342 NAT b
The Reader
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the perso…
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- 9780753804704
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- 216p; bw; pbk
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- 833.914 SCH r
Please Look After Mother
Combining a unique setting with universal themes, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is a tear-jerking, beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love. PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, travelling from the…
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- 9780753829073
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- 261p; bw; pbk
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- 895.73 SHI p
Doctor Zhivago
In the early 1900's, Russia was always at war. There was the war with Japan. There was World War I. There was internal civil war with more factions than most people could follow. The people of Russia watched their whole lifestyle change. In less than twenty years the country went from a kingdom to a communist state. Yurii Zhivago comes of age during this time in Russia. He is from the upper,…
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- 9780099448426
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- 465p; bw; pbk
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- 891.7342 PAS d
Dont Judge a Girl By Her Cover
When Cammie Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting" and "deadly" are never far apart. Soon the girls find themselves trapped in a kidnappers' plot, with only their espionage skills t…
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- 9781423116608
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- 263p; bw; pbk
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- 813.6 CAR d
Walk Two Moons
Thirteen year old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, known as Sal, is travelling from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, in search of her mother. Along the way, she tells them the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received myterious messages, met a 'potential lunatic' and whose mother disappeared. Beneath Phoebe's story is Sal's story and that of her mother, who left one day for Idaho and has not returne…
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- 9780590674096
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- 280p; bw; pbk
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- 813.6 CRE w
It's Not Summer Without you
It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things …
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- 9781416995562
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- 275p; bw; pbk
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- 813.6 HAN i
The Beach Hut
FOR SALE: a rare opportunity to purchase a beach hut on the spectacular Everdene Beach, Dorset. “The Shack” has been in the family for fifty years, and was the first to be built on this renowned stretch of golden sand…’ Jane Milton doesn’t want to sell her beloved beach hut, which has been the heart of so many family holidays and holds so many happy memories. But when her husband dies…
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- 9781409119951
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- 373p; bw; pbk
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- 823.92 HEN t
Blubber
What happens when teasing goes too far? This classic middle grade novel from Judy Blume addresses the timeless topic of bullying and has a fresh new look. “Blubber is a good name for her,” the note from Caroline said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her school desk. She didn’t want to think about Linda or her dumb report on whales just then. Jill wanted to …
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- 9781481410137
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- 813.54 BLU b
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