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• American Stranger

  a Novel

  Plante, David, 1940-

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  Brought up in a secularized Jewish household on Manhattan's upper Eastside, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents' past. She knows they were World War II Jewish refugees who were able to escape Germany with precious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Autoboyography

  Lauren, Christina, pseud

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  High school senior Tanner Scott has hidden his bisexuality since his family moved to Utah, but he falls hard for Sebastian, a Mormon mentoring students in a writing seminar Tanner's best friend convinced him to take

• The Boat Runner

  a Novel

  Murphy, Devin

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  Novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II

• The Boy at the Door

  Dahl, Alex, 1982-

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  Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. Then Tobias enters her life. He is a small, friendless eight-year-old boy who just wants to find a home. But he threatens to bring Cecilia's world crashing down

• The Eight Mountains

  a Novel

  Cognetti, Paolo, 1978-

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  Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountains that hug the northeastern border of Italy. While on holiday at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ensemble

  Gabel, Aja

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  A debut novel which gives a riveting look into the high-stakes, cutthroat world of musicians, and of lives made in concert

• Green

  a Novel

  Graham-Felsen, Sam

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  David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lawn Boy

  a Novel

  Evison, Jonathan, 1968-

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  For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Levi's War

  Thomas, Julie, 1959-

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  Levi's War follows on from The Keeper of Secrets and Rachel's Legacy, tracing the story of the eldest Horowitz son, Levi, who is smuggled out of Berlin to London the day after the Kristallnacht in 1938, where he makes the momentous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Macedonian

  Guild, Nicholas, 1944-

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  The story of Philip, prince and king, the forgotten boy who rose to save his country and became a legend in his own lifetime. His extensive military conquests across the Greek peninsula would pave the way for expansion under his son,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Money in the Morgue

  Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982

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  Crime novel begun by Ngaio Marsh during the Second World War and completed by Stella Duffy. It's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lonely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Running With Lions

  Winters, Julian

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  Bloomington High School Lions' star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team's success may end…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sadness Is a White Bird

  Rothman-Zecher, Moriel

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  Four days after his nineteenth birthday, Jonathan is sitting in a military jail in Israel. Languishing in the dark cell, he recalls the series of events that led him to this point. It all began when he returned to Israel after being raised…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soviet Milk

  Ikstena, Nora

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  This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story, a nameless woman, tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take Nothing With You

  Gale, Patrick, 1962-

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  1970s Weston-Super-Mare, and 10-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tyler Johnson Was Here

  Coles, Jay

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  When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid. The next day Tyler is missing, and it's up to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Then They Came for Me

  Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis

  Hockenos, Matthew D., 1966-

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  284.1 Matthew Hockenos traces Niemöller's evolution from a Nazi supporter to a determined opponent of Hitler, revealing him to be a more complicated figure than previously understood

• Woodland Gardening

  With Rhododendrons, Magnolias, Camellias and Acid-loving Plants

  Cox, Kenneth N. E. (Kenneth Nicolas Evan), 1964-

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  635.967 The first colour book on woodland gardening with acid-loving plants. It has an international scope from China and Japan to Australia and New Zealand to UK and the continent of Europe and to North America, tracing the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buckfast Abbey

  History, Art and Architecture

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  726.7 Chronicles the remarkable history of this famous English abbey, today both home to a self-sufficient community of Benedictine monks and a site that welcomes some half a million visitors to south Devon each year

• Colours of a Life

  the Life and Times of Douglas MacDiarmid

  Cahill, Anna

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  759.993 This biography is the lively, persuasive and colourful story of talented Douglas MacDiarmid who had to leave New Zealand to find a life as a painter on his own terms. Now almost 95, still resident in Paris