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About Time is a story about family, humorously told with style and a quirky story that uses time as a tool to deliver a touching tale.

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In this 2013 Newbery Award Winner, a fictionalized account of Ivan, a real-life gorilla who was a Seattle mall tourist attraction for 26 years, is exquisitely written by Katherine Applegate for middle grade readers.

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“[The] real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation… Chronicling everyday life in Bulgaria means trying to communicate Bulgarian “sadness,” which is—to the extent that these things can be disentangled—as much
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This book is a biography, and the setting is 1960's Manchester It gives an account of the harsh reality in being a child carer, At the tender age of six, Jane Hersey became the sole carer for her mother, who suffers from clinical depression, diabetes and eating disorders.
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There are some films which open you up to an entire way of life you’d never even thought about.
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This film shows the problems that a modern-day Muslim woman living in an unspecified Middle Eastern nation has to go through. 

 

 

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Think you know homelessness? Think again...  
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In the first volume of his epic memoir cycle, My Struggle, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts the emotional vicissitudes of his adolescence and young adulthood with a sense of guilelessness and detail unprecedented in literature.

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