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The book describes the attempts of Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology at Harvard University, to solve the murder of renowned curator Jacques Saunière (see Bérenger Saunière) of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The title of the novel refers, among other things, to the fact that Saunière's body is found in the Denon Wing of the Louvre naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a Pentacle drawn on his stomach in his own blood. Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code |
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The Glass Castle is a memoir written by journalist, Jeannette Walls. Jeannette writes about her unique childhood, sharing her . . . memories of her father and mother. She tells how they refused to conform to society's ideas of responsibility, leaving their children to fend for themselves for even the most basic of needs, such as food and shelter. Jeannette tells her story in a straightforward fashion that is not touched with anger or self-pity, belying events that often shock her readers with her almost innocent presentation of the facts. The Glass Castle is an astonishing memoir that will leave the reader both stunned by the tragic circumstances of Jeannette's childhood and awed by her strength. Excerpt from http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-glass-castle/
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Lullabies for Little Criminals.
Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself, and always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that 'chocolate milk' is Jules' slang for heroin, and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real article. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she's been choreographed in a dance. Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard–won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girl; and he wants her body and soul –– what the johns don't take he covets for himself. At the same time, a tender and naively passionate friendship unfolds with a boy from her class at school, who has no notion of the dark claims on her –– which even her father, lost on the nod, cannot totally ignore. Jules consigns her to a stint in juvie hall, and for the moment this perceived betrayal preserves Baby from terrible harm –– but after that, her salvation has to be her own invention. http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060875077/Lullabies_for_Little_Criminals/index.aspx |
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Adventurer Paul Winder and orchid enthusiast Tom Hart Dyke met up in Mexico and decided to trek through the Darién Gap--a narrow bit of jungle on the border of Panama and Colombia. Tom wanted to find some new flowers and Paul wanted a challenge. They had almost made it when they were taken captive by a band of FARC guerilla fighters with a grudge against just about everybody, a serious grunge problem and an eye for a juicy ransom for some rich boys. Our heroes survived for nine months and emerged after a harrowing ordeal with a combination of hard work, endurance and a pinch of good luck. This captivating book is well written with youthful zest, a sparky sense of humour and the scary sense that these two just might set off for another adventure next summer. Excerpt from http://www.amazon.ca/Cloud-Garden-Tom-Hart-Dyke/dp/0593050797 |
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Crow Lake is a poignant and clear-eyed portrayal of a family - seven-year-old Kate, her younger sister, Bo, and two older brothers, Luke and Matt - that suffers overwhelming personal tragedy. . . The fragile innocence of childhood is shattered in that one irrevocable moment for all four siblings, and like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be made whole again. Compromises are made and dreams delayed in the pursuit of the basic needs of this small family. But children often overcome unimaginable misfortune, and the Morrisons cling to each other, overcoming substantial odds to remain together in the family home. Kate chronicles their struggles with the immediacy of hard-won knowledge.
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Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Australian Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years’ imprisonment in Australia as punishment for a series of armed robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In July 1980 he escaped from Victoria’s maximum-security prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia’s most wanted men for what turned out to be the next ten years. For most of this period, after an interlude in New Zealand, he lived in Bombay. After meeting a local man named Prabaker, who later becomes his best friend, he sets up a free health clinic in the slums where he learns about the Indian culture and characteristics of the people he later comes to love. He later works for Afghani mafia don "Abdel Khader Khan" and works in black market currency exchange and passport forgery. He later goes to Afghanistan to smuggle weapons for mujahideen freedom fighters in Afghanistan. . . [Roberts eventually] realizes he became everything he grew to loathe and falls into a depressive state after he returns. He ends up realizing that he must fight for what he believes is right, and build an honest life in Bombay. Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(film)#Film_adaptation n Bombay.
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