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Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades,...
2) To paradise
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Framingham 2024 Reading Bingo Suggestions
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Natick-Morse AANHPI Heritage Month
Medfield - Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Natick-Morse AANHPI Heritage Month
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Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
"In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a...
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Joining an anthropologist's 1950 expedition to discover a lost tribe on a remote Micronesian island, a young doctor investigates and proves a theory that the tribe's considerable longevity is linked to a rare turtle, a finding that brings worldwide fame and unexpected consequences.
4) Al paraíso
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2022.
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"En una versión alternativa de la América de 1893, Nueva York forma parte de los Estados Libres, donde el matrimonio homosexual está permitido. Un muchacho de familia distinguida se debate entre casarse con un pretendiente elegido por su abuelo o escoger a un profesor de música con pocos recursos de quien está enamorado. En un Manhattan de 1993 asediado por "la enfermedad", un joven hawaiano vive con su pareja, cuya edad e ingresos superan con...
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Livre de Poche
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2019.
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Français
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Les destins croisés sur une trentaine d'années de quatre amis de faculté, décidés à conquérir New York : Malcolm, architecte métisse, JB, peintre d'origine haîtienne, Willem, apprenti acteur venu de Scandinavie, et Jude, qui a choisi la carrière d'avocat. La trame du récit se concentre peu à peu sur ce dernier, personnage énigmatique.
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Sigongsa
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[2016]
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Korean
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades,...
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AST
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[2023]
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Russian
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"The new novel by Hanya Yanagihara, the author of the world bestsellers "Little Life" and "People Among the Trees", is both an extraordinary intellectual challenge and a well-aimed hit in every heart. In an alternative version of America in 1893, when the offspring of an influential family agrees to a worthy marriage by agreement, he is suddenly overtaken by a passion that threatens to destroy his usual life. In 1993, a young Hawaiian hides his noble...
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Corpus) volume 455
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Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Russian
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"In 1950, a young doctor, Norton Perina, signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumored lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub "The Dreamers," who turn out to be fantastically long-lived but progressively more senile. Perina suspects the source of their longevity is a hard-to-find turtle; unable to resist...
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Picador
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[2015]
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English
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A future mayor shining shoes, an atheist shilling Bibles, a housewife heading to work during World War II, a now-famous designer getting fired-we all got our start somewhere. A first job may not have the romance of the first kiss or the excitement of a first car, but more than anything else, it offers a taste of true independence and a preview of what the world has in store for us. In First Jobs, reporter Merritt Watts collects real stories of these...
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Penguin Books
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[2017]
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English
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"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled...
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Bedford/St. Martin's
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English
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"Samuel Cohen's 50 Essays provides thought-provoking reading material for the whole semester. It's a short-and-sweet essay collection that covers a broad range of topics, time periods, and themes, with additional guidance to help you develop reading and writing skills for your English class and beyond." -- Taken from publisher website.
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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was a key figure in Paris fashion between the two World Wars. Following in the footsteps of her mentor Paul Poiret, she designed her first knitwear collection in January 1927. Decorated with trompe-l'oeil motifs in black and white, her sweaters were an immediate success in both France and the USA. In 1935, the Maison Schiaparelli opened in the Place Vendome in Paris, selling collections designed for sports,...
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