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  2. Mothers and Sons (book) - Wikipedia

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    Mothers and Sons. Mothers and Sons is a 2006 collection of short stories written by Irish writer Colm Tóibín and published in 2006. The book was published in hardback by Picador, and each of its stories explores an aspect of the mother-son relationship. All take place in contemporary Ireland, except that the last and longest, "A Long Winter ...

  3. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers - Wikipedia

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    Plot introduction. The novel's characters and setting stay true to Lois-Ann Yamanaka's local upbringing on the Big Island of Hawaii.Written in both English and Hawaiian Pidgin, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers is a coming-of-age first-person narrative of Lovey Nariyoshi, a local Japanese girl growing up in Hilo, Hawaii in the 1970s.

  4. Nadia Davids - Wikipedia

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    www .nadiadavids .com. Nadia Davids (born in Cape Town, 1977) [1] is a South African playwright, novelist, and author of short stories and screenplays. Her work has been published, produced, and performed in Southern Africa, Europe, and the United States. She was a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner in 2013. Her play What Remains won five Fleur du ...

  5. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction.

  6. How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies - Wikipedia

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    M saw an example from Mui, a young cousin who inherited a mansion worth tens of millions from being the caretaker of her dying Agong. M volunteers to take care of his Amah, who has terminal cancer and lives alone, hoping for an inheritance. Cast. Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a young man who dropped out of school to take care of his grandma

  7. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

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    Into the Widening World, a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995) Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (1997–2007) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999) Alex Rider, by Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (2001)

  8. My Family and Other Animals - Wikipedia

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    Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods. My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical book by British naturalist Gerald Durrell. It tells in an exaggerated and sometimes fictionalised way of the years that he lived as a child with his siblings and widowed mother on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.

  9. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    A triple supernova opens a rift in time space, propelling a family far into the future where they are attacked by monstrous aliens before finding refuge in a domed city. 1981 Time Bandits: Terry Gilliam: A young boy unwittingly joins a band of dwarves as they travel through time, hunting treasure. 1982 Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann ...