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A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
Irving, John
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"(Mr. Irving) is more than popular. He is a Populist, determined, to keep alive the Dickensian tradition that revels in colorful set pieces and teaches moral lessons... More than any of his novels since Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany embraces those 19-century qualities" (The New York Times)
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A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE
Tyler, Anne
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Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager with a distant father and hours of silence to fill. Evie learns that Drumstring frequently plays at a dingy roadhouse called the Unicorn. She goes and bursts out of her lonely shell -and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real.
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A SON OF THE CIRCUS
Irving, John
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"Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace... (He) spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car... His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing" (The Wall Street Journal)
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ANGELS & DEMONS - ILLUSTRATED EDITION
Brown, Dan
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World-renowned Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt throug ...
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