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Christine's Favorite Books Ever |
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Queenie : a novel
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Candice Carty-Williams
Fiction - Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
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The Hating Game
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Sally Thorne
Fiction - Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him. A first novel.
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Sula
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Toni Morrison
Fiction - The intense friendship shared by Nel Wright and Sula Peace, two African-American women raised in an Ohio town, changes forever when one of them leaves home to roam the countryside and returns ten years later.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Jen Wang
Graphic Novel - The best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy-tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry.
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Bless Me, Ultima
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Rudolfo A. Anaya
Fiction - Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic novel, which comes complete with a special reading group guide.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Fiction - In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Fiction - After a lonely childhood, young orphan Jane Eyre takes a post as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester and uncovers a ghastly secret about the strange sounds that she hears.
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My Uncle Oswald
by Roald Dahl
Fiction - Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instlalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of this early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts.
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Autobiographical Fiction - A fiftieth anniversary commemorative edition of Kerouac's classic work reflects the underground and open road experiences of America in the 1950s and is based on the author's travel adventures with Neal Cassady.
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
Fiction - Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial journalist at Successful Savings, seeks solace from the boredom, pressures, and difficulties in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her ever closer to financial disaster, until she finally encounters a story that she actually cares about and produces an article that will change her own life and the lives of all those around her.
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Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
Kid Fiction - A special centennial edition of the heartwarming classic brings to life the story of Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan who is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
Fiction - The saga of a mysteriously disintegrating marriage, suppressed memories of the tragedies of war, and a young man's search for his personal and national identity is set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Japan.
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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth L. Ozeki
Fiction - A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of My Year of Meats.
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
Teen Fantasy - In an alternative world in which every human being is accompanied by an animal familiar, the disappearance of several children prompts Lyra and her bear protector to undertake a journey to the frozen Arctic in pursuit of kidnappers.
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Still Life with Woodpecker
by Tom Robbins
Fiction - A love story that takes place inside a pack of cigarettes reveals the moon's purpose, differentiates between outlaws and criminals, and presents portraits of powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders.
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Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
Teen Fiction - A first young adult novel by the author of Attachments follows the year-long, star-crossed romance between two 1980s high school misfits whose intelligence tells them that first loves almost never last but whose feelings prevent them from remaining as practical.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (#3)
by J. K. Rowling
Kid Fantasy - During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Memoirs / Essays - In a new collection of essays, observations, and commentaries, the humorist and best-selling author of Naked describes his recent move to Paris, life as an American in Paris, his struggle to learn French, his family, restaurant meals, and more.
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Saga. Vol. 1
by Brian K. Vaughan
Graphic Novel - When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world.
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