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• Language Arts

  Kallos, Stephanie

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  Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sellout

  a Novel

  Beatty, Paul

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  The narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City on Fire

  a Novel

  Hallberg, Garth Risk,

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  The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nightingale

  Hannah, Kristin

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  Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  [Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity]

  Boo, Katherine

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  In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

  Hashimi, Nadia

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  A luminous and unforgettable tale of two women, destiny, and identity in Afghanistan Kabul, 2007: The Taliban rules the streets. With a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can rarely leave the house or attend school. Their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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• Flight Behavior

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let the Great World Spin

  a Novel

  McCann, Colum, 1965-

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  A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation