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83) Guru
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Hindi
Description
A villager, Gurukant Desai, son of a village schoolteacher, comes to Bombay in 1958 and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in Indian history.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" An exhilarating debut novel of reinvention, friendship, and ambition-from the Jersey shore to Scotland. Tom Alison is weeks away from collecting his diploma at an East Coast boarding school and heading off to the Ivy League. His goal: a job in high finance alongside the power brokers he's been watching from a distance as the working-class son of a single mom. But when he gets caught selling drugs on campus, his life among the children of privilege...
Author
Series
Cupcake novels (Lisa Schroeder) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.
89) Linoleum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Edwin, the host of a failing children's science TV show called Above & Beyond, has always had aspirations for being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket. As his relationship with his wife and daughter start to strain, surreal events begin unfolding around him: a doppelgänger moving...
90) Farther
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This debut novel takes place at the elite Seoul National University in 1970s South Korea during the final years of a repressive regime. The novel follows the fates of two women--Jisun, the daughter of a powerful tycoon, who eschews her privilege to become an underground labor activist in Seoul; and Namin, her best friend from childhood, a brilliant, tireless girl who has grown up with nothing, and whose singular goal is to launch herself and her...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When you were young and idealistic, who was the person you saw in the mirror? What were your expectations and those of your family and community? And now that you are older and have attained prominence, how do you feel about the person you have become and the direction your life has actually taken? Malachy McCourt, Joyce Maynard, Alan Dershowitz, and Eileen Goudge are among twenty celebrated authors in this unique collection who tackle meaningful...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After an injury forces fifteen-year-old gymnast Caroline to quit competing, her older brother's best friend Alex promises to help her find a new signature sport, and, in return, she offers to set him up on a date with her former teammate.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Attending a retreat in the desert mountains of Sedona, Arizona, at the insistence of socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst, lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan soon discovers that all is not well in wellness town as Marley's blind ambition turns into madness"--
97) Broadway bird
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Louisa is a tiny parakeet with a huge dream: to be a Broadway star. But no matter what she does, everyone keeps telling her she's too small to make it big! When a chance at her big break comes, Louisa learns that no matter how small you are, with a little talent and a lot of hard work, you can do anything--even be on Broadway."--
100) The shift
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
Explores the spiritual journey from ambition to meaning through the intertwined stories of an overachieving businessman, a mother of two seeking her own expression in the world, and a director trying to make a name for himself.
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