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Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
5) Find me
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Call me by your name novels volume 2
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In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the bestseller "Call Me by Your Name" revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love.
10) Bone deep
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"A twisty and propulsive read, this dark contemporary novel of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal, and the dire consequences of family fallout brilliantly plays on human fears of loneliness and abandonment"--Provided by publisher.
11) Manopnishad
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"Articles, chiefly on contemporary social issues of India; previously published in 'Divya Bhaskar' Gujarati newspaper"--Worldcat.org.
12) The beloveds
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"A deliciously creepy, slightly campy contemporary gothic -- think Shirley Jackson (We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Hangsaman) meets V. C. Andrews' multi-million copy Flowers in the Attic franchise -- that turns Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca on its head"--Provided by publisher.
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"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
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"Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with...
18) Leave society
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In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but he will put his life on hold--year after year--to make this trip, chronicling everything that transpires before him. Just as he flits in and out of sobriety, relationships, and drafts of a new book, he will fly between these worlds in hopes of keeping his family together. He will temper arguments, console his parents, and try to...
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