Night
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the book carries the year…
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Normal People
Normal People retold: Connell and Marianne from Sligo school to Trinity, class and love.
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Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men retold: George and Lennie on a California ranch, the dream farm, and why mercy ends it.
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Paper Towns
Quentin chases clues after Margo vanishes, learning the girl he imagined was never the whole story.
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People We Meet on Vacation
Poppy and Alex have shared one vacation each summer for ten years. Two years after a silent falling out, she talks him into one more trip to fix it.
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Reminders of Him
Kenna returns after prison to meet the daughter she lost, facing the family that blames her.
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet retold: Verona feud, balcony, Friar's plan, and why the last minutes collapse.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim slips through time from Dresden to Tralfamadore in Vonnegut's short antiwar classic.
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's authorized Steve Jobs: forty interviews covering the garage, the 1985 ouster, Pixar, and the return that made the iPhone.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river classic, its cons and…
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The Book Thief
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief retold: Liesel in Molching, Hans and Rosa, Max in the basement, and Death as narrator.
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The Cruel Prince
Mortal Jude fights for a place at the faerie court, bargaining with the prince she hates.
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