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by Lidia Yuknavitch
Published Feb 2018
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by David Almond
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsA captivating novel for teens from Printz Award-winner David Almond.
by Per Petterson
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsWe were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.
by John Searles
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsBeautifully written and charged with a sublime wit, the novel brings to vibrant life a cast of characters that no reader will forget.
by Niccolò Ammaniti
Published Feb 2004
Read ReviewsIn this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he darent tell anyone about it. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Sep 2003
Read ReviewsTo understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
by Linda Grant
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsAn unsentimental, iconoclastic coming-of-age story of both a country - Israel - and a young immigrant. An unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed from an unsparing point of view.
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