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Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2003

This is part a story of adventure, freedom and flight as well as an inspirational, thought-provoking book.

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Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

SCRIBNER, 2014

This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules…people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...

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Richard Powers: Bewilderment

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2022

Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans.

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Richard Powers: The Overstory

VINTAGE CLASSICS, 2022

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

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Richard Russo: Empire Falls

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family.

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Richard Russo: Mohawk

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times.

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Richard Russo: The Risk Pool

RANDOM HOUSE, 1998

The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned.

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Richard Yates: Cold Spring Harbor

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house.

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Richard Yates: Disturbing the Peace

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.

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Richard Yates: Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today.

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Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2007

With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy.

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Richard Yates: The Easter Parade

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2008

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other.

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Roald Dahl: Bizarre! Bizarre!

FOLIO, 1973

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Roald Dahl: Book of Ghost Stories

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007

Who better to investigate the literary spirit world that the supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? In this book of ghost stories he has selected fourteen of his favourites for this superbly disquieting volume.

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Roald Dahl: Cuentos Completos

DEBOLSILLO, 2017

Brillante y con tintes fantásticos como un Grimm, realista como un O. Henry o despiadado como un Saki, sus historias fueron adaptadas por Alfred Hitchcock para la televisión, y han inspirado a creadores como Steven Spielberg o Quentin Tarantino.

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Roald Dahl: Going Solo

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012

In 1938 Roald Dahl was fresh out of school and bound for his first job in Africa, hoping to find adventure far from home. However, he got far more excitement than he bargained for when the outbreak of the Second World War led him to join the RAF.

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Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable.

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Roald Dahl: My Uncle Oswald

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008

Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon viviant and fornicator of all time.

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