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Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow
The personal life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, is captured in a definitive biography by the National Book Award-winning author of The House of Morgan.
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Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
by Trevor Noah
The host of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
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Carry on : the rise and fall of Simon Snow
by Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow's final year at the Watford School of Magicks is overshadowed by a painful breakup, an overprotective mentor, a roommate's disappearance and a plethora of monsters. By the best-selling author of Attachments.
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Ferris Bueller's day off
The events in one day of a young man who decides to cut school and head out on the town with his girlfriend and best friend
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The girl with the dragon tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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GreaseFilm version of the musical about high school life in the 1950's
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
When writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest for West Egg, near New York City, in the spring of 1922, he is swept into the dazzling world of his fabulously wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. No one knows where Gatsby or his money comes from, but the parties at his mansion are legendary. Aloof and above the fray, Gatsby scans the crowd for one person in particular-Nick's beautiful, inscrutable cousin Daisy Buchanan, who lives right across the bay. A sharp satire of the Jazz Age and the American Dream, and oneof the twentieth century's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby is the defining work of F. Scott Fitzgerald's career.
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Hachi, a dog's tale
A college professor takes home an abandoned dog who becomes a loyal friend, meeting him at the railroad station everyday when the professor comes home
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The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, Katniss's skills are put to the test when she takes her younger sister's place
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Killing Eve
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
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Little women
by Louisa May Alcott
For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role each wants to play in the world, and, along the way, join them on countless unforgettable adventures. Readers young and old will fall in love with this beloved classic, at once a lively portrait of nineteenth-century family life and a feminist novel about young women defying society's expectations.
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Mare of Easttown
In Easttown, Pennsylvania, a woman detective investigates a murder of a teenage mother while trying to stay afloat of her own personal problems
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by Irin Carmon
In a lively illustrated biography of the feminist icon and legal pioneer, readers can get to know the Supreme Court Justice and fierce Jewish grandmother, who has changed the world despite our struggle with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, standing as a testament to what a little chutzpah can do.
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The Queen's gambit
by Walter S. Tevis
Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters
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Songs of freedomSongs of Freedom is a four-disc box set containing music by Bob Marley and the Wailers, from Marley's first song "Judge Not", recorded in 1961, to a live version of "Redemption Song", recorded in 1980 at his last concert.
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The Tao of Bruce Lee : a martial arts memoir
by Davis Miller
Combining biography and personal memoir, this revealing portrayal of one of the great martial arts masters explores the life of an obscure Hong Kong actor to died at the age of thirty-two and now occupies iconic stature in American culture. 15,000 first printing.
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