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Soul Eater. Main series volume 22
Publisher
Yen Press, Hachette Book Group
Language
English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. Doriel was a child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books–but it is enough. Doriel’s parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving...
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Oolichan Books
Language
English
Description
Love is language, and longing is translation. Fragments, Desire is a dictionary of love, exploring its troubled and joyous borders with honesty and originality. Taking inspiration from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, Onjana Yawnghwe reimagines and transforms it while paying homage to the beloved work. Fragments, Desire intertwines adoration of language with romantic longing. Here, stanzas become secret rooms and we get lost in the closing and...
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English
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"The Forgotten Waltz" is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing, that reads with breathtaking immediacy. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009, it has snowed. A woman recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life". Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous...
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English
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Danny spends his days working as a wedding photographer, and his nights dancing in clubs and cruising Stanley Park. Miss Val is a burlesque dancer who started her career in Chinatown after an affair with a Chinese restaurant owner ends. But to pursue the lifestyle that offers her recognition, she must give up her daughter and the domestic life she always desired. Set mostly during the hot summer of 1982 in Vancouver, when AIDS was spreading rapidly,...
14) Wings of a dream
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English
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Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her sick aunt, and she's sure that a glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything, and now she must choose between her desire to escape the type of life she's always led and the unexpected love that just might change the dream of her heart.
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English
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"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
18) My sister Rosa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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What if the most terrifying person you know is your ten-year-old sister?Seventeen-year-old Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister Rosa. But he's also certain that she's a diagnosable psychopath-clinically, threateningly, dangerously. Recently Rosa has been making trouble, hurting things. Che is the only one who knows; he's the only one his sister trusts. Rosa is smart, talented, pretty, and very good at hiding what she is and the violence she's...
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Hamish Hamilton Canada
Language
English
Description
With this collection of wise, querying stories, Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud introduces us to an astonishing array of characters, showing us through their eyes what even they cannot see, and uncorking minor epiphanies in the middle of the most unremarkable days. Conflicting, sometimes overlapping desires - for intimacy and for radical freedom - come to life in lyrical, probing language
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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
"If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, says noted psychologist David Buss, we must look into our evolutionary past. Based on the most massive study of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first book to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Now in an updated...
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