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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.
2) Great house
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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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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...
6) Waterloo
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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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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.
12) The sea
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
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After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
14) The last girls
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Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.
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Sarah Candless, grieving the death of her father, a best-selling novelist, decides to write a biography of her celebrated parent, but her research turns up many revelations that not only shock Sarah, but provide her with answers to some long-standing riddles about her family.
16) The other
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
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John William Barry and Neil Countryman are brought together by their mutual love of the outdoors; but when Neil asks John to help him disappear into Washington's backcountry, he finds himself in the center of secrets and deceit that will shatter his life.
17) Never let me go
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for...
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 10
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Fifteen-year-old Jonas, the only survivor of his family after the U.S. bombs his Middle Eastern country, relocates to America where he tells a counselor about Christopher Henderson, an American soldier who disappeared after saving him.
19) A secret kept
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Parisian architect Antoine Rey searches for details about his mother's past after his sister recalls a repressed memory about their mom's intimate involvement with a woman, and finds his life changing from the death of his daughter's best friend, his son's arrest, his father's terminal illness, and a budding relationship with a a Harley-riding mortician.
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Thirtysomething Emily Wilson, having agreed to visit her great-aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island and trying to cope with her divorce while doing research for her next novel, finds a diary from 1943 and realizes the life of its anonymous author is connected to hers, sending Emily on a path of facing her past and looking to her future.
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