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In the Night Kitchen
A boy of about three years-old named Mickey, is awoken from his bed at night from a strange noise. Suddenly he begins to float, he loses his clothes, and he finds himself in a surreal world called the Night Kitchen. He falls into a giant mixing pot…
Outside Over There
This book follows Ida who plays her horn for baby sister every night to get her to sleep while her father is away at sea. One night while she is playing her horn and not paying attention to the baby, goblins sneak in and steal the baby. When Ida…
Of Mice and Men
The storyline follows George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the US. George is an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie…
Ghost Camp (Goosebumps series)
The 45th book in the Goosebumps series, this book follows brother Harry and Alex Altman in their adventures at Camp Spirit Moon, which their parents signed them up for last minute. As they are walking towards the camp it appears to be abandoned until…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This book is told in first person narrative by Huckleberry Finn, friend of Tom Sawyer, and is the direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It follows Huck as he escapes from the confines of small town, religious, southern life to float on a…
As Nasty as they Wanna Be
This is the third album by Miami bass group, 2 Live Crew. It was their best selling album but was later declared legally obscene in the United States, and was the first album to ever be declared so. The group later released the album "As Clean as…
The Haj
This book follows the story of one Arab family in Palestine as they experience the historic events of the 1920s-1950s. It goes on to show how the family is affected by the proximity of a nearby kibbutz (a collective Jewish community based on…
Gossip Girl
This book in the first in a series that revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on the best…
Daddy’s Roommate
This book was one of the first children's books to portray homosexuality in a positive light. It tells the story of one boys divorced father who now lives with his life partner. The two men do the same things heterosexual couples do such as take care…
Spycatcher
In this book Wright talks about his time serving in the security service MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), which is a British domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. He states that he was assigned to unmask Roger Hollis, a former MI5…
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textures of your pandemic experience
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