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Stories about people who refuse to give in to what might look like a hopeless situation: a midget in a strip show, an aimless drifter, and more.
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In Jane Stevenson's second novel, part of a trilogy that began with THE WINTER QUEEN, the son of the widowed Queen of Bohemia and her lover, an African prince, is the protagonist. The writer Aphra Behn also plays a major role, as she comes to London in the 1670s to further her own career not only as a writer but as a spy. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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In this story set in the 1730s a four-year-old boy, the son of English settlers in the Hudson River Valley, is stolen from his family by the Mohicans. Treated with kindness by the Mohicans, he is given a new family and a new name, Echohawk. The boy eventually forgets his early life, becomes an expert hunter, and passes through his coming-of-age vision quest. Then, his Mohican father sends him to be schooled by the white settlers. In this new situation, Echohawk finds himself remembering his past and discovers that he will have to choose the path of his future--the world he was raised in or the world of his ancestors.
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In the 12th V. I. Warshawksi mystery, the private detective returns to her old South Chicago neighborhood, a visit littered with unpleasant memories, plus present-day sabotage, murder, and disappearing teenagers. After her former high-school basketball coach becomes ill with cancer, V. I. agrees to volunteer-coach the girls` team. An attempt to drum up corporate support for the team from local high-school alum Buffalo Bill Bysen, the elderly CEO of the By-Smart big-box discount store, proves a dismal failure; ironically, the Bysen family ends up appealing to V. I. instead when Bysen`s great-grandson Billy and one of the basketball team members run off together.
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This best-selling comic novel by Kingsley Amis, one of the Angry Young Men who came to prominence in the early 1950s, describes the frustrations met by Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial British university, in his academic and private life. Approaching middle age and as yet unpublished, untenured, and unattached, Dixon needs most of all to impress Professor Welch, his department head, but is more concerned with winning over Christine, the beautiful girlfriend of Welch's obnoxious son, Bertrand. Immensely popular when first published in 1955, LUCKY JIM influenced an entire school of academic novelists, from David Lodge to A.N. Wilson.
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