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When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.

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A masterpiece of Hispanic literature from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" (Denver Post). This is the involving story of Antonio, a boy facing the conflicts in his life with the help of Ultima, a curandera who cures with herbs and magic. At each turn of Tony's life, she is there to nurture his soul.

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In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.

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In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.

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The story of an American family in wartime.

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Overwhelmed by the cruelty of his family, a young boy tries to escape to a fantasy world in the hills surrounding his home.

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One of Britain's most well-respected writers serves up a hilarious novel of modern parenting, focusing on a couple--David and Alice--whose various attempts to push their children fail in spectacular ways. Original.

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"One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Weddingand To Kill a Mockingbird, that sees more than it lets on."--Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review

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A teen-age girl tells about her "marriage of necessity" to Bo Jo Jones, especially the problems and difficulties encountered during their first critical year.

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In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.

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Seeking acceptance in her socially driven new hometown, Emma Harris struggles with the foibles of the privileged life as she ends a new best friendship, learns unwritten dress codes, vies for the attentions of a garage boy band, and survives the politics of divorce.

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The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes struggles to deal with the problems of midlife--an empty nest, wildly fluctuating hormones, too many demands on her time, and too little room for herself--as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendship, family, and herself. Reprint.

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Titania reflects on her accomplishment as a champion fire-baton twirler, making her parents proud and creating her own sense of pride and self-determination, to show her grown daughters that she is a true winner.

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