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1) White noise
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A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial...
2) Stoner
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<p><b>Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.</b></p><p> </p><p>William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a...
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Booth Tarkington's wildly successful novel Seventeen satirizes the vagaries of American adolescence. Though 17-year-old protagonist William Sylvanus Baxter is awkward, tactless, and often less than likable, Tarkington's insightful—and hilarious—take on teenage life and love is sure to please readers who appreciate top-notch humor writing.
4) Road tripped
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Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
5) Poor white
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Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially...
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Blossom Culp series volume 1
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In 1913 in the Midwest a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to "exorcizing" a ghost.
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Español
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Ellos están solos y, esta vez, el monstruo es imposible de descifrar... John y Brooke van de pueblo en pueblo intentando atrapar al último de los demonios, pero ellos también son perseguidos. Con cada nueva ciudad, cada nueva parada, cada nueva carretera se acercan a un asesino impredecible y John tiene que encontrar la manera de resolver este terrible acertijo. Mientras tanto, la psique fracturada de Brooke se tambalea al borde del extravío,...
8) Ghosting
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"On a hot summer night in a midwestern town, a high school teenage prank goes horrifically awry. Alcohol, guns, and a dare. Within minutes, as events collide, innocents becomes victims--with tragic outcomes altering lives forever, a grisly and unfortunate scenario all too familiar from current real-life headlines. But victims can also become survivors, and as we come to know each character through his/her own distinctive voice and their interactions...
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As family-owned pizzerias across the Midwest mysteriously disappear, Iowa college students Evan, Anna, and Crust are invited to join a secret society of pizza devotees. Relying on Midwestern sensibilities and the loyalty of their best friends, the freshman aficionados must decipher a series of clues in order to save the nation's pizza parlors and prevent a century-old, supernatural recipe from falling into the wrong hands.
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"To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories. Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson's...
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Ray Trevitt is coming of age in the American Midwest of the late 1950s. Handsome, restless, eager to live life and to find his place in the world, Ray hurtles headlong through a young man's rite of passage, searching for answers and somewhere to belong. What he discovers is that within friendships and love affairs, army tours and married life, victory and tragedy, lie the experiences that will shape his destiny, scar his soul, and ultimately teach...
12) 33 snowfish
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A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
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