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Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
L. A. Woman by Eve Babitz
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle - one with the promises of youth, the other with the ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi; Patrick Creagh (Translator); Mohsin Hamid
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Category: International Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira's apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of ...Show more
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties.
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