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A psychologist who also teaches at a school wrestles with his personal life, in which his former lover prepares to move away while pregnant with his child, and his professional life, in which he treats an exotic dancer with anxiety issues and tries to help a gifted, yet troubled, student in one of his night classes.
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English
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It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time she experiences limited personal interactions. Her parents have died; her relationships with her bulimic best friend Reva, an ex-boyfriend, and her drug-pushing psychiatrist are unwholesome. As her pill-popping intensifies, so does her isolation and determination...
3) Great house
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English
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An enormous desk, once the property of a young poet who was kidnapped by Pinochet's secret police, becomes an inspiration and an obsession to the people whose lives it touches.
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Henry, a writer, receives a curious letter from an elderly taxidermist who wants Henry to help him write a play about a donkey and a howler monkey--Beatrice and Virgil--but Henry feel increasingly uncomfortable as he learns more about the odd world of the taxidermist and his perilous plans for Beatrice and Virgil.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Elizabeth Egan, a woman who keeps rigid control of her life, home, interior design business, and six-year-old nephew, learns to let go of her unhappy past and rediscover the joy of childhood when she becomes acquainted with her nephew's imaginary friend, Ivan.
10) Winter solstice
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St. Martin's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Aging actress Elfrida Phipps agrees to accompany recent widower Oscar Blundell to his estate in rural Scotland, where they, along with an assortment of visitors, including Elfrida's relative Carrie Sutton, Carrie's teenage niece Lucy, and textile executive Sam Howard, help each other heal their broken hearts in the days before Christmas.
11) Think twice
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that's what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Alice underestimates Bennie, though, and the evil she has unleashed in her twin's psyche, as well as Bennie's determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.
12) Waterloo
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English
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Reporter Nick Lasseter's pitiful life and career take a turn for the better when he stumbles upon a story that has the potential to make his career and bring him national celebrity.
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English
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After being released from prison, a young man whose life was destroyed after a liaison with an underage girl agrees to help a university sociologist with his research on homelessness and recidivism among six offenders and the two form an unlikely friendship, until events from the professor's past come to light and cause the young man to question everything he knows.
14) Journey
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English
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Seemingly perfect Washington, D.C., media couple Maddy and Jack Hunter have a not-so-perfect marriage behind the scenes, and Maddy finally admits to herself that Jack is emotionally abusive when the First Lady invites her to join the Commission on Violence Against Women, and when she meets fellow commission member Bill Alexander.
16) Lost: a novel
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English
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Susan's desperate search for her missing husband Christopher, who suffers from dementia, throws her together with Jeff, her police liaison, and Corey, a troubled boy, and together the tree embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.
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Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their...
18) Imperfect birds
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Rosie Ferguson, a teenage girl who seems to be successful on the surface, causes strife in her family due to her lies about drug and alcohol use and other risky behaviors.
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