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Pub. Date
2005
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"A guide to fiction set in Vermont" presents readers with 484 concise, yet comprehensive, summary descriptions of novels and short stories set in the Green Mountain State from 1835 to today. An author bibliography and multiple appencices and indexes make the guide an ideal tool for anyone seeking to learn more about Vermont through the lens of literature.
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The Library of America volume 157
Pub. Date
c2005
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A reader's edition of key writings by the acclaimed author includes the National Book Award-winning "Goodbye, Columbus" and the trenchant psychological portrait, "Letting Go."
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The Library of America volume 158
Pub. Date
c2005
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Presents three novels by American author Philip Roth, with an introduction to the author's life and work.
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The Library of America volume 29
Pub. Date
c1985
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Presents three novels written by Henry James in the middle part of his career, each featuring a female lead character who is faced with competing choices.
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This 1896 novel, first published serially in the Illustrated London News, is a murder mystery with a twist—the callous crime goes unpunished, though not undiscovered. James is less interested in a game of cat-and-mouse than in exploring the psychological motivations of his characters.
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The Library of America volume 141
Pub. Date
c2003
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Contains the first three novels by American author Saul Bellow: "Dangling Man," "The Victim," and "The Adventures of Augie March".
7) Housekeeping
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Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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A novel about an Italian-American major who is military governor of an Italian town in World War II. Focuses on the energetic way in which the major puts the town on its feet, dispensing justice and spreading the idea of democracy.
9) Empire falls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
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Miles Roby, called back from college to the small town of Empire Falls in Dexter County, Maine to take care of his ailing mother, falls into a rut that keeps him trapped until years later when a series of revelations and tragedies jolts him back into an awareness of his life.
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"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
-Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's shadowy past. A dinner party becomes the occasion for the dissolution...
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"An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time. Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics...
15) My sweet Vidalia
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On July 4, 1955, in rural Georgia, an act of violence threatens the life of Vidalia Lee Kandal Jackson’s pre-born daughter. Despite the direst of circumstances, the spirit of the lost child refuses to leave her ill-equipped young mother's side.
For as long as she is needed―through troubled pregnancies, through poverty, through spousal abuse and agonizing betrayals―Cieli Mae, the determined spirit child, narrates their journey. Serving as a...
17) The passenger
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"Pass Christian, Mississippi, 1980: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips up the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from a Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
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[2018]
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For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world's piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success. "Look," a character begins to explain, laying out some gambit reasonably enough, even if facing a world of boomeranging...