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The secret life of bees [playaway] : a novel
Sue Monk Kidd.
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Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
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Spanish [playaway] : the complete language course
by Henry N. Raymond.
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Suite française [playaway] : [a novel]
Irène Némirovsky ; [English translation by Sandra Smith].
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Two parts of a planned five-part novel that was never completely finished due to the death of it's Jewish author during World War II. The first part, "A storm in June," is set in the chaos and mayhem of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Part Two, "Dolce," opens in the provincial town of Bussy during the first influx of German soldiers.
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A tale of two cities [playaway]
Charles Dickens.
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In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.
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The time traveler's wife [playaway]
Audrey Niffenegger.
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The uses of enchantment [playaway]
Heidi Julavits.
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In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school. Or was she? A few weeks later, an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her socially ambitious mother is concerned, and send Mary to therapy with a psychologist named Dr. Hammer. Mary turns out to be a difficult patient and Dr. Hammer begins to suspect that she concocted her tale of abduction. Eager to further his professional reputation, Hammer writes a book about Mary's faked abduction. Fifteen years later, mary has returned to Boston for her mother's funeral. Her abduction--real or imagined--has tainted many lives, including her own, and she begins a quest to revisit the people and places in her past.
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The virgin blue [playaway]
Tracy Chevalier.
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Water for elephants [playaway] : a novel
Sara Gruen.
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Jacob remembers his life some 70 years ago as part of a traveling circus, having fallen in love with the horse act star, Marlena; and both of them mutually smitten with Rosie the elephant.
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The year of magical thinking [playaway]
Joan Didion.
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[In this book, the author] explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This ... book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."
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