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The Glass Girl
09 $The heartbreaking and hopeful story of protagonist Bella as she goes through rehab for alcoholism. The writing explains her addiction, interior thoughts, and how these factors affect both her and the world around her.
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The God Of Small Things
09 $Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is about two fraternal twins in India whose lives are dictated by tragedies in their past. Significant themes include family, loyalty, forbidden love, colonialism/post-colonialism, education discrimination, and social class inequality.
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The Godfather
09 $This mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don’s youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay , he is drawn deeper into the family business.
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The Godfather
09 $This mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don’s youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay , he is drawn deeper into the family business.
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The Guest
09 $A psychological thriller about a seemingly perfect married couple, Iris and Gabriel, whose lives are upended when they return from a holiday to find their long-time friend, Laure, unexpectedly living in their English countryside home.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
09 $A dystopian novel set in a totalitarian, theocratic state in former New England called the Republic of Gilead, where fertile women are forced to become “Handmaids” for the ruling class to repopulate.
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The Idiot
09 $A novel about Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a compassionate and innocent man who returns to Russian society after being treated for epilepsy.
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The Inmate
09 $aApsychological thriller about a single mother who returns to her hometown in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. Memories of her past begin to haunt her when she takes a job at the federal prison where the father of her child, who once tried to kill her, is serving a life sentence for a triple homicide.
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The Intruder
09 $Casey, a woman living alone in a secluded cabin, who discovers a blood-covered young girl named Ella hiding in her toolshed with a knife during a storm.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
09 $A historical fantasy about a young Frenchwoman in 1714 who makes a desperate deal to live forever, only to be cursed so that everyone she meets immediately forgets her.
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The Kite Runner
09 $1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.