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author: Backman, Fredrik
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.
A forty-one-year-old man, who is a secret agent, falls obsessively in love with a young student in London. For twelve years he writes love letters to her but refuses to let her see him. When the young woman's other lovers meet with violence, she suspects her secret admirer of foul play.
Saga of the American labor movement centers on Daniel Boone Huggins, 'Big Dan,' who rises from the rural poverty and hard times of the West Virginia hills to become a powerful labor leader. His career embraces violence, fierce ambition, lust, and a hunger for justice even when wealth, fame, and power become his.
Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like ''Over There'' or what the ''Nazi Beast'' is. His 9-year-old mind imagines a Nazi Beast hiding in the cellar, waiting to feed on Jews. Momik increasingly shields himself from all feeling and...
Spellbinder is the story of a genuine and charismatic believer known as "Preacher," who returns from the foxholes and horrors of Vietnam with a simple goal--to spread the word of peace, love, and charity. He immediately attracts a following as he moves from California communes to small surfing towns. "The Church," as his mobile flock is n...
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