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301) Three tragedies
Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Hamlet: In this reframed version of Shakespeare's play, young Hamlet is a prince from an unnamed African state who has the world at his feet, young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home, he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainities smashed, and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order, he faces a stark choice, submit, or...
303) Stay true: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, a first-generation Taiwanese American who has a 'zine and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn't seem to have a place for either of them. But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become...
304) American mother
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
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This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets, but especially Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder.
308) Gideon's sword
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
As a boy, he watched as his father, who had taken a man hostage, was shot down by a sniper. After dispatching the man responsible for his fatherś murder, Gideon is offered a job with a private contractor that does hush-hush work for the government. Gideonś mission: to intercept a Chinese scientist and relieve him of the plans for a top-secret weapon.
Author
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Irene Stenson returns to the Northern California town of Dunsley when her friend Pamela dies suddenly. Irene is assisted by lodge owner, Luke Danner, a hazel-eyed ex-Marine. Will they risk more than local gossip to find out what really happened?
Tutor Concordia Glade places the safety of her four young orphan charges in the hands of Ambrose Wells, who endeavors to protect them from a notorious crime lord.
Ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Winter came early the year Bernadette died. It seemed like there wasn't really even an autumn at all that year. And autumn was as pretty a season as there was up in that Duce country. The winters were miserable--cold and gray for the most part. And if there was one thing worse than winter there, it had to be the spring--when all the ice and snow melted, and that cold and gray and miserable little town was bogged down in a sea of brown mud. "God how...
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