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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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"Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Meanwhile,...
4) María
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Español
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Obra cumbre de Jorge Isaacs y considerada también la pieza literaria mas importante de la producción de su género en la historia colombiana.
Por su tema y estructura conserva todas las características de la novela sentimental que en Francia había llegado a su apogeo con Atala de Chateaubriand y Pablo y Virginia de Saint Pierre. La novela presenta muchos aspectos asimilados de sus modelos franceses; pero su gran originalidad consiste en
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2022.
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Best New Thriller and Mystery Books of 2022 by Popsugar
Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022 by CrimeReads
Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2022 by Criminal Element
IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO RIGHT A WRONG?
Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna river. One such village, Nilgi,
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost...
8) These bones
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Lanternfish Press
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"In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest. As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again"--
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"Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write. Born in those hills, Cora knows the plague of illiteracy. So does Brother Wyatt,...
10) Golden arm
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Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
12) Cardboard City
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Tradewind Books
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Young Romani teens, Saida and Nikola, dream of escaping from the harsh discrimination and crushing poverty of life in a squatter settlement in Belgrade, Serbia.
13) Code red
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Thirteen-year-old former elite gymnast Eden is feeling lost after a career-ending injury, but when she meets new friends who open her eyes to period poverty, the struggle that low-income people have trying to afford menstrual products, she becomes an advocate for fair treatment and rediscovers her passion and drive.
14) The whiskey sea
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Lake Union Press
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2016.
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English
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A fiercely independent young woman risks her heart and her freedom smuggling liquor in the 1920s.
15) Keep holding on
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Viking
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2012.
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Bullied at school and neglected by her poor, self-absorbed, single mother at home, high school junior Noelle finally reaches the breaking point after a classmate commits suicide.
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"Maren Walker dreams of finding her own little door. The doors have appeared to the people in her mountain town for as long as anyone can remember, though no one knows where they lead. Maren's mother was the last to go through, leaving nine-year-old Maren behind. Now living with her grandmother, Maren deals prescription medication to pay their bills and nurture her dream of becoming a nurse. When she faces the possibility of escaping her struggles...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2021.
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"In the summer of 1932...May Marshall...struggles to keep her family farm and market afloat through the economic downturn...Having recently lost her mother, sixteen-year-old Dorrit Sykes questions the religious doctrine she was raised in...When Dorrit accompanies her father to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932 to camp out and march with twenty thousand veterans...she begins an odyssey that will both traumatize and strengthen her...Dorrit's and...
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Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.
20) Potted meat
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Tarpaulin Press
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2016.
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English
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Set in a decaying town in southern West Virginia, Potted Meat follows a young Aftican-American boy into adolescence as he struggles with abusive parents, poverty, alcohol addiction, and racial tensions.
