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by Jeffrey Abrams
A story within a story - a "conversation" between two readers who (gasp!) write in the margins of a book they are passing back and forth.
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Any Human Heart
by William Boyd
Logan Mountstuart is a writer, lover, art dealer, and spy. He chronicles his adventures through the 20th century in nine absorbing (and footnoted!) journals.
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by Max Brooks
Kate Holland's diary is the only "eyewitness" to the Greenloop massacre - a tragedy that was literally covered up by the eruption of Mt. Rainer. |
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by A. S. Byatt
The turbulent love life of two Victorian poets becomes a consuming passion for two academics - and mirrors their own relationship.
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leaveby David DowningStumbling across the hidden diary of a boarder who had been a father figure to him half a century earlier, Walter discovers the man's life-risking undercover work as an anti-Nazi Moscow spy.
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by Jim Fergus
Peace within a generation is the promise. All the Cherokee want are white brides for their warriors. (Based on actual historical events).
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by Helen Fielding
Weight, alcohol consumption, cigarettes smoked, and so much more are part of this no-holds-barred chronicle of modern life.
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by Hendrik Groen
An curmudgeonly octogenerian keeps a journal of the day to day outrages at his retirement home while stirring up trouble and maybe finding love.
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by Daniel Handler
Flannery Culp is just a typical high school senior, trying to make it through SATs, college applications, and a crush on a boy. But then things ... get out of control. And now she's incarcerated and the subject of daytime talk shows.
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by Galle Josse
The sad and somber diary of John Mitchell, an "immigration inspector", and later commissioner, for the Federal Immigration Service at Ellis Island for 45 years.
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by Daniel Keyes
A sweet, sad (so sad!) - and slightly dated - look at the limits of modern medicine.
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by Ruth L. Ozeki
A novelist finds a Hello Kitty! lunchbox washed up on a remote beach, which leads her to a depressed and bullied Tokyo teen..
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by Susan Beth Pfeffer
When a meteor changes the orbit of the moon, life on Earth changes radically. (companion volumes: The Dead and the Gone and The World We Live in.)
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by Maria Semple
After making a rash promise to her teenage daughter, Bee, agoraphobic Bernadette disappears. |
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by Carol Shields
A simple, even boring, life story told with compassion, wit, and heart.
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by Dodie Smith
The wistful diary of seventeen year old Cassandra, who lives in genteel poverty in a crumbling Sussex castle.
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by Andy Weir
Presumed dead, an abandoned astronaut has a slim chance of survival on Mars, and a slimmer chance of rescue.
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by David Williams
After brutal climate changes knock out the power grid completely, the Amish way of life may save humanity - if they can survive the chaotic and violent upheaval in the neighboring cities.
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by Paul Wolfe
Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer was the ex-wife of the CIA chief and sister-in-law to the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She was also sexually adventurous, experimented enthusiastically with LSD, and was the secret lover of JFK. |
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by Shelley Wood
Emma Timpany is only 17 when she assists at the harrowing and miraculous birth of quintuplets in 1934 in rural Canada. She remains their nurse and companion through their frightening first days to their subsequent relocation as "wards of the King" to a sterile but very public new home.
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