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61) The goldfinch
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English
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
62) Less than zero
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Returning to Los Angeles from his Eastern college for a Christmas vacation in the early 1980s, Clay reenters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine.
63) Jin se
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Spirit and body, pure love and betrayal, jealousy and revenge... Through the reflection in the mirror, the beauty of all negative numbers of human nature will eventually be transformed! Mishima Yukio's breathtaking and blockbuster novel Mishima gambled on his "Youth's Final Account" to write this book, along with "Confessions of a Mask" and "Kinkakuji", as one of the three must-read masterpieces for literature fans. The idea prototype of famous Japanese...
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2023.
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English
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"Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between...
66) Odysseus abroad
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. [The novel] follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays...
67) Mardaani 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Hindi
Description
A 21-year old boy named Sunny comes to the city of Kota on a murder contract given to him by the city's strongest political player. Sunny looks like any other innocent 21-year old, but there's more to him. He has a penchant for sexually assaulting and eventually murdering young girls. While at it, he locks horns with Shivani Shivaji Roy, the newly appointed chief of the city police.
70) The end of Eddy
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again. Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other...
71) Desert boys
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English
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"In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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中文(繁體)
Description
This is a story about escape, confrontation and choice. From the moment the protagonist enters the recuperation center, he is forced to face his illness and his memories. He must open his scarred heart, let others walk in, and make life meaningful again. At the same time, the various characters in the nursing center are also facing their own choices. He had to ask himself a question: Can life in a nursing center really heal a person? Is our only way...
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Prince of Tennis volume 12
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the next round of games, Seishun's Takeshi Momoshiro encounters Kiyosumi in the No. 3 singles and Ryoma battles Jin in the No. 2 singles. However, Ryoma has his work cut out for him because, for some mysterious reason, Jin can't possibly lose.
75) Franny and Zooey
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by Zooey. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms....
76) Market forces
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Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other--in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris...
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Series
Elusive samurai volume 5
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In order to seize the Suwa domain, the conniving governor of Shinano, Ogasawara Sadamune, seeks to prove that Tokiyuki, in his guise as Chojumaru, is a Hojo clan survivor. Tokiyuki must face the all-seeing gaze of his adversary, as well as Sadamune's equally perceptive henchman. And even if Tokiyuki can escape Sadamune's machinations, his trials are far from over. When Suwa's hard-pressed allies come under attack from superior enemy forces, Tokiyuki...
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Elusive samurai volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not only by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthrigh by running away"--
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Series
Elusive samurai volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki's peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he'll have to do what he does best--run away!" --provided by publisher.
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