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1) Braised pork
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2020.
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"One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia's mind and won't leave. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an...
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"The crowds keep coming. More and more every day, drawn by rumor and whisper and desperate wish. They come to Shaker Street to see eight-year-old Anabelle Vincent, who lies in a coma-like state--unable to move or speak. They come because a visitor experienced what seemed like a miracle and believed it happened because of Anabelle. Word spreads. There are more visitors, more supposed miracles, more stories on TV and the Internet. But is this the divine...
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Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written.
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"A young chaplain at a large medical center fears her "soul is broken," though she hasn't subscribed to any formal religion in years-she's far too busy tending to the souls of her patients to do anything about her own. But strange things happen over the course of a single night shift, and interactions with patients in various states of consciousness and with various relationships to spirituality give her insight into her own life as they pinpoint...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 12
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1340L
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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HL 630L
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The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie's life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood...
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Up in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors—hailed as "Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud," by the Daily Telegraph—that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi, and twists them into a surrealistic nightmare of infinite proportions.
Neil Double is a "conference surrogate," hired by his
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""Once upon a time there was a man who worked very hard and very quickly, and who had left his soul far behind him long ago. In fact his life was all right without his soul--he slept, ate, worked, drove a car and even played tennis. But sometimes he feltas if the world around him were flat, as if he were moving across a smooth page in a math book that was covered in evenly spaced squares... " --from The Lost Soul The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflection...
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The bestselling classic novel about an American traveler's spiritual journey into the world of golf When Michael Murphy first meets golf pro Shivas Irons on one of the most beautiful courses in Scotland, he doesn't know that his life-and his golf game-will change forever. But with the first swing of the Scotsman's club Murphy realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day. By turns comic, philosophical, mythic, and autobiographical, this tale...
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Overwhelmed by the discovery of her mother's deception and the secrets of her ancestor's origins, a young Seattleite slips deeper into prescription opioid addiction. Braided tells the story of how she discovers her true purpose during a deadly fentanyl overdose.
Mira's body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and...
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2013
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hikikomori, n. h?kik?'mo?ri; literally pulling inward; refers to those who withdraw from society.
Inspired by the real-life Japanese social phenomenon called hikikomori and the professional "rental sisters" hired to help, Hikikomori and the Rental Sister is about an erotic relationship between Thomas, an American hikikomori, and Megumi, a young Japanese immigrant hiding from her own past. The strange, insular world they create together in a New York...
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"Although loneliness is a quality that we all must endure (sometimes even while we are with someone), in every instance of it that I can think of, there is always an intervening event that rips you up in the end, apprehensively targets the tedium at first and crescendoes into an aggressive stranglehold of the heart. And I'll willfully let that happen again, but it's unpredictable when it will occur."
Aiming to find the man that no longer resides...
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2021
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"My brain was famous, but I was not. Not every gifted child invents a pollutant-free fuel, paints a masterpiece, or finds the cure for cancer," Jack MacLeod tells us. "Some of us just live out our lives." Jack died in 1974; now, he's ready to narrate his story from beyond the grave.
Jack's prodigious memory, which allows him to memorize books, and his penchant for psychic connections give him unusual insights into the events of his past life and...
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Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer -- and is, himself, a philosophical counselor in training. Philip's dour, misanthropic...
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"Two friends, Tonnison and Berregnog, stumble upon an old house in rural Ireland and discover the journal of "the Recluse," an unidentified man who recorded his last days in the house before its destruction. The journal recounts strange visions that dogged the Recluse--terrifying creatures that crawl up from below the house to torment him. But the journal is unfinished, and the friends are left to speculate on the man's fate--and their own. First...
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Haifa, Monte Carmelo, Nazaret, Jericó, Lago Tiberiades, Qumram, Mar Muerto, Belén y Jerusalén se suceden y entrecruzan con la mirada del autor y la del escritor Herman Melville que en 1857 peregrinó a Israel y Palestina.
En el libro, quince personajes nos acompañan a través de este viaje sagrado; unos animados por la belleza de la aventura, otros por la fe y la vocación, y algunos sólo por sentir el arrullo de los parajes donde dejó...
17) Bridge of Souls
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Bridge of Souls is a fascinating and endearing story about an Italian Nonna's past and her great granddaughter finding her true destiny. It is a creative blend of spiritual, paranormal, and a very bizarre love/hate relationship involving psychological domination. There are chilling hidden dangers, when people depend on psychics for answers. People seeking enlightenment may risk being emotionally controlled, and financially raped at the hands of people...
18) Thomas and Rose
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An extraordinary story telling of a man raised in New Zealand, Thomas McCallum, the woman he falls in love with while at university, Rose, and the adventure they couldn't have predicted while journeying Turkey; which has them saving a small 5-year-old boy who is threatened with dire consequences. This is a glass half full story involving strong but differing views on evolution and creation, with opposing philosophies coming together in a practical...
19) Hell
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Tilde Colon hates her name and the two English Majors who gave it to her: her parents. She seems an incomplete person, totally absorbed in herself, but dismissive and judgmental about other people in her environment: she is a high school student, fifteen years old...and a loner. No, wait, she has just made an acquaintance, a boy named Jake - Jacob White - who is as much a misfit as she is.What makes a young perople with promising futures embrace an...
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We always have the freedom to choose our every thought, decision, and action. This seems like a simple concept, but in the case of a soul known as Nenrae, it took three lifetimes to even begin to understand. Follow along as this reality of free will crystalizes through the unraveling of her life in the ballet and maison close of Paris in the early 1800s, hidden away in a cloistered convent in eastern France of the late 1800s, and finally in the all-black...
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