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• Life After Life

  [a Novel]

  Atkinson, Kate

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  During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

  a Novel

  Wroblewski, David

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  Explores the deep and ancient alliance between humans and dogs, and the power of fate through one boy's epic journey into the wild. Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Digging to America

  Tyler, Anne

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  Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport--the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elle

  a Novel

  Glover, Douglas, 1948-

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  Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Of course, the plot is only the beginning. The bare outline is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roam

  a Novel With Music

  Lazar, Alan, 1967-

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  Nelson is a bright-eyed, inquisitive half beagle, half poodle. He lives with Katey and Don, newlyweds whose marriage is straining under the pressures of domesticity. One day Nelson follows his nose and gets lost-- and we follow his journey home for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dog's Purpose

  [a Novel for Humans]

  Cameron, W. Bruce

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  This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here?…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Sun

  Gratton, Tessa

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  In an alternate U.S.A. (the United States of Asgard), Soren Bearskin, the son of an infamous beserker, and Astrid Glyn, daughter of a renowned seer, embark on a road trip to find Baldur, the missing god whose absence has caused panic throughout the…Read moreRead more of this annotation