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3) Oliver Twist
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English
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In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he runs away and is captured by a gang of thieves, and is finally reunited with his long lost family.
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English
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish's Little Heathens is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
6) Broken Irish
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English
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In Boston, six very different people deal with corruption and redemption while watching their neighborhood go through the changes that are needed in order to make it grow.
8) King Zeno
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose.
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.
19) Anna Karenina
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English
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A woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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"Roy's impressive American debut covers multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition. Three distinct sections revolve around Amulya, who runs an herbal medicine and fragrance business; his mentally ill wife, Kananbala, who spies on the goings-on of her English neighbors from the room Amulya keeps her locked in; their sons, Kamal and Nirmal; their wives; Nirmal's daughter Bakul, whose mother died in...
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