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Updated May 29, 2024
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Laugh-out-loud : the joke-a-day book
Elliott, Rob (Humorist)
Paper Book
Laugh all year long with this hilarious, highly illustration collection of jokes from the author of the #1 bestselling Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids series. With gags for every day of the year, it's the book perfect book to keep the whole family laughing no matter what the weather's...
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American Pastoral
Roth, Philip
Paper Book
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The dovekeepers : a novel
Hoffman, Alice.
Paper Book
Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a...
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The drowned and the saved
Levi, Primo.
Paper Book
Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.
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Aciman, André
Paper Book
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Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination,...
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Great house
Krauss, Nicole.
Paper Book
For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the...
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Herzog
Bellow, Saul
Digital file
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The impossible exile : Stefan Zweig at the end of the world
Prochnik, George
Paper Book
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories and biographies were so compelling that they became instant bestsellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. This tells the tragic story of...
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Man's search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Frankl, Viktor E.
Paper Book
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest -...
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Moonglow : a novel
Chabon, Michael
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal * An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction * ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction * Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the...
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The New York trilogy : City of glass, Ghosts, The locked room
Auster, Paul
Paper Book
The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and...
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The particular sadness of lemon cake
Bender, Aimee.
Paper Book
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift- she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers...
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The power
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.
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The seven good years : a memoir
Keret, Etgar
Ebook
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The street of crocodiles and other stories
Schulz, Bruno
Paper Book
The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick) Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of...
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What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
Englander, Nathan.
Paper Book
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
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