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Zoologist murder story that leads to a paradoxical way to celebrate life.
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The title says it all for this 19th century piece of literature.
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The novel about peasant life in China in the 1920's was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. The book follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a wealthy landowner.
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The memoirs of a Chicago policewoman. Based on the author's own experience.
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The memoirs of a man who with others in the Warsaw ghetto, fought the Nami's.
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An experimental text that looks back to the great age of narration. In one sense a comedy, in another, a tragedy.
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This high school dropout, ex-hobo, farmer, paratrooper turned English professor writes of a dirty world.
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Harry investigates a murder of a celebrity lawyer. He learns all the prime suspects are his fellow police officers.
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Sexy comedy about a quirky family with everyone's lives swirling out of control.
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This is a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation.
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A culturally famous book, it's a tribal legend about 2 old women, left behind to die, who instead went on to survive and thrive.