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"Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
2) Beartown
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Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
4) Xiong zhen
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★全球热销1300万册的瑞典小说之王弗雷德里克·巴克曼《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》《外婆的道歉信》《清单人生》之后超越式里程碑新作。 熊镇是一个小镇，它偏远，落寞，冬天很长，雪很多，镇上的人们，懂得沉默和忍耐；熊镇是一个小镇，一座冰球馆，几个家庭，一个酒吧，一片森林，一个男孩和一个女孩，一群男孩和几个女孩，一群男人和一群女人。它是安静的。它的爆发在一个夜晚，当一个女孩的衬衫被撕破，一枚纽扣掉在了地上。我们该如何活？如何爱？如何赢？如何保护那珍贵的事物？如何选择和做一个更好的人？这是一个小镇，可这是一整个世界。这里有很多人，可最终你只读到了自己。...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man's struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family's efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go. "Isn't that the best of all life's ages, an old man thinks as he looks at his grandchild, when a boy is just big enough to...
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