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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
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Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's hiding again, wanted for...
3) The Odyssey
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Contains the epic story of Odysseus and his decade-long journey home, in which his ship is blown off course and he spends years encountering natural and supernatural dangers, and a host of greedy usurpers before being reunited with his family.
9) Dragonwings
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In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.