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  • The Carnivorous Carnival
    The Carnivorous Carnival : Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
    by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
    Hardcover: Oct 2002
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the carnival, as part of Madame Lulu's House of Freaks. Ages 9+
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  • Carolina Moonset
    Carolina Moonset
    by Matt Goldman
    Hardcover: May 2022
    Paperback: May 2022
     
    Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award–winning author, Matt ...
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  • Carpentaria
    Carpentaria : A Novel
    by Alexis Wright
    Hardcover: Apr 2009
    Paperback: Apr 2010
     
    Hailed as a "literary sensation" by The New York Times Book Review, Carpentaria is the luminous award-winning novel by Australian Aboriginal writer and activist Alexis Wright.
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  • The Cartographer of No Man's Land
    The Cartographer of No Man's Land
    by P.S. Duffy
    Hardcover: Oct 2013
    Paperback: Oct 2013
     
    The Cartographer of No Man's Land offers a soulful portrayal of World War I and the lives that were forever changed by it, both on the battlefield and at home.
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  • Casa Rossa
    Casa Rossa
    by Francesca Marciano
    Hardcover: Aug 2002
    Paperback: Oct 2003
     
    From the duplicity of Italy's role in the thirties to the dark years of terrorism in our own times, and moving from Rome and Southern Italy to New England and New York City, Casa Rossa is a brilliant weave of lives and memories: an enthralling ...
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  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
    The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein : A Novel
    by Peter Ackroyd
    Hardcover: Oct 2009
    Paperback: Sep 2010
     
    When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most ...
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  • Caste
    Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents
    by Isabel Wilkerson
    Hardcover: Aug 2020
    Paperback: Feb 2023
     
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
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  • The Cat's Table
    The Cat's Table : A Novel
    by Michael Ondaatje
    Hardcover: Oct 2011
    Paperback: Jun 2012
     
    A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
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