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41) Scribe: a novel
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English
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"A haunting, evocative tale about the power of storytelling. A brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade. In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe ekes out a lonely living on the family farmstead where she was raised and where her sister met an untimely...
43) Love, Clancy
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English
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You've probably never met someone like Clancy. He's keeping a diary, he's falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy, even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual, except that Clancy is a dog. His point of view is therefore perhaps, different. Told in Cameron's signature style, a tremendous cast of wonderful characters find themselves jointly and separately navigating the...
44) Dear Aaron
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English
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Some days, all you need is a message from a stranger. Ruby Santos knew exactly what she was getting herself into when she signed up to write a soldier overseas. The guidelines were simple: one letter or email a week for the length of his or her deployment. Care packages were optional. Been there, done that. She thought she knew what to expect. What she didn't count on was falling in love with the guy.
45) Papelitos
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Español
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"El maestro, muy serio, explica una lección sobre la carta. Mientras, por el salón, desfilan aviones, navíos, flores and jirafas, papelitos que viajan por los mundos imaginarios que habitan y escriben Teresa y Mariano."
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Espasa juvenil volume 177
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Español
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Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
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"Coach Charley Cristo's life is changed forever, not by the cancer that he is battling, but by the letters he receives daily from "the Sender.""--
"Coach Charlie Cristo is battling cancer, but it is years of bitterness and disappointment that are the real enemy. "The Sender's" letters begin to heal his heart even as the chemo is fighting the cancer. Slowly, Charlie's life and the lives of everyone around him change, but will it be enough when the...
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"Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a playboy, and a lost soul. Each reacts to her plight in his own way, their...
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"The early 1900s was a time of change and chaos in Ireland--a time when the suffragist movement was stirring up women to fight for their rights and when the Protestants and Catholics were set against each other. When Fred, a Protestant, falls in love with Niamh, a devout Catholic, he finds himself exiled to America. Determined to find a place where everyone is accepted and Protestants and Catholics can marry, Fred works to save money for Niamh's own...