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Dos trabajadores del campo en California durante la Gran Depresión. George Milton, un hombre inteligente pero sin formación, y Lennie Small, un hambre de gran estatura y fuerza, pero limitatdas habilidades mentales, están en camino hacia otra parte de California en Soledad. Esperan cumplir algún dia su sueño compartido de tener sus propias tierras y sus propios animales. La parte del sueño de Lennie es simplemente cuidar (y tocar) conejos...
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When brain surgery makes a mouse named Algernon into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon, a mentally disabled man, wonders if it might also work for him. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough...
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Najnowsza powieść Królowej Suspensu. Osiemnastoletnia Kerry Dowling zostaje znaleziona martwa w basenie przy domu, a jej zrozpaczona rodzina musi stawić czoło przerażającemu przypuszczeniu, że mogła zostać zamordowana przez kogoś, kogo kochała. Pierwszym zatrzymanym jest chłopak Kerry, z którym pokłóciła się podczas imprezy zorganizowanej pod nieobecność rodziców. Podejrzenie pada też na sąsiada Dowlingów, upośledzonego umysłowo...
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Keystone Stables volume 6
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One of the special-needs children riding horses at Keystone Stables during the summer has Down-syndrome and when his affection for Skye embarrasses her, she begins to treat him harshly.
72) The wild kid
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Twelve-year-old Sammy, who is mildly retarded, runs away from home and becomes a prisoner of Kevin, a wild kid living in the woods.
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In 1973, living in a small South Carolina town with her grandmother and mentally handicapped aunt, thirteen-year-old Memphis finds her troubled relationship with her grandmother grow steadily worse, especially when Memphis is held responsible for her aunt's disappearance.
74) Tru confessions
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Twelve-year-old Tru wants two things more than anything else in the world--to find a cure for her twin brother, Eddie, who is developmentally delayed, and to create her own television show. So the day Tru learns about a teen video competition on the local cable network, she knows that this is her change to make both of her dreams come true. But the more she gets involved in the making of her video documentary about Eddie, the more Tru begins to understand...
75) Nocny dom
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"W następstwie tragicznej śmierci rodziców w pożarze domu czternastoletni Richard Elauved przeprowadza się do ciotki i wuja mieszkających w odległym, wyspiarskim miasteczku Ballantyne. Richard szybko zyskuje reputację wyrzutka, a kiedy znika kolega z klasy o imieniu Tom, wszyscy podejrzewają, że nowy, antypatyczny chłopak jest odpowiedzialny za jego zniknięcie. Kiedy znika kolejny kolega z klasy, Richard musi znaleźć sposób, aby udowodnić...
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling, " the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues...
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Madness of Rose dark diaries volume Book 1
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A journal of horror, murder and heinous crimes committed by a deranged mind inside a woman's body. Rose lives in a world without time. Incarcerated for crimes she believes herself to be innocent of committing. There are no clocks and no calendars here. Her only outlet is paper and a marker which becomes her only 'friend.' She journals about her days in prison and remembering her husband and children. A life good and pure and a life left far behind....
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Promising to keep his mother's secret, eighteen-year-old Will moves into a house for people with disabilities, falls in love with a young Gypsy woman, and learns to assert his own identity and independence. Life isn't going so well for 19-year-old Will. His mother is always nagging him about the lucky knit hat that he never takes off; his mother's boyfriend has forbidden Will to play "Wild Thing" the only song he knows' on the guitar; and he just...
79) Do we not bleed?
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"A young woman is dead. A man with diminished capacity is accused. His friends, also wounded, try to help him. In the process, they teach Jon Mote a thing or two he desperately needs to learn. Jon no longer hears voices, but he's not convinced a silent universe is much better than a haunted one. He's returned his sister Judy to her group home and taken a staff job there that puts him in the company of six folks who, a bit rebelliously, he calls Specials....
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