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Summary: Melanie Tamaki follows her mother to the Half World, a place where people sit in limbo between the human world and the afterlife, and ...
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Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, ...
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Summary: Melanie Tamaki follows her mother to the Half World, a place where people sit in limbo between the human world and the afterlife, and ...
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Summary: When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her ...
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Summary: Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog ...
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pert Lexie does not think things could get much worse in her small, impoverished community, but when her uncle's advances go too far, ...
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Summary: A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's ...
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Summary: Nine-year-old Isaku lives with his mother in a poor fishing village in Japan where the people survive by luring passing ships onto the rocky ...