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Raising Wrecker: A Novel

by Summer Wood

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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Wrecker is born in 1965 in flower-powered San Francisco. By his third birthday, his mother has landed in prison and he's been taken by the state. So when an uncle claims the boy and brings him to a place called Bow Farm, Wrecker is scared and angry and quick to cause chaos. Here among the ...

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The Raising: A Novel (P.S.)

by Laura Kasischke

Published: 2011-03-15

Paperback: 496 pages

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“Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of facade and reflection.”  —New York Times Book Review “Haunting, unsettling, and unforgettable, ...

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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)

by R. K. Narayan

Published: 2006-08-29

Paperback: 192 pages

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A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different l...

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Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books)

by Beverly Cleary

Published: 1992-10-01

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Ramona feels quite grown-up taking the bus by herself, helping big sister Beezus make dinner, and trying hard to be nice to pesky Willa Jean after school. Turning eight years old and entering the first grade can do that to a girl. So how can her teacher call her a nuisance?From the first d...

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Ranchero

by Rick Gavin

Published: 2011-10-25

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Repo man Nick Reid had a seemingly simple job to do: talk to Percy Dwayne Dubois? pronounced "Dew-boys," front-loaded and hick specific?about the payments he's behind on for a flat screen TV, or repossess it. But Percy Dwayne wouldn't give in. Nope, instead he saw fit to go all white-tras...

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Random Acts of Heroic Love

by Danny Scheinmann

Published: 2008-01-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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With over 200,000 copies sold in the UK, a Richard & Judy pick, rights sold in 19 countries, called “riveting” and “mesmerizing,” this is a cinematic debut from a gifted new writer. Based on real family events, Danny Scheinmann’s novel paints a dramatic portrait of two epic love ...

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Random Acts of Heroic Love (Paperback)

by Danny Scheinmann

Published: 2008

Paperback: 448 pages

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Random Family

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Published: 2004-09-06

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In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances -- Jessica's dizzying infatua...

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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Published: 2004-02-10

Paperback: 432 pages

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The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts atumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the...

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Random Harvest

by James Hilton

Published: 2011-02-04

Paperback: 250 pages

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Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. The novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of bestselling novels for the year. The novel was successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1942 and nominated for the Academy Award.