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The Shampoo Effect is a story of late-night parties

Phaidros has been taught to follow his commander's orders at all costs

Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery

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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) American Literature and compass points-the marks (includingA young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this extraordinary and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century. Theo Decker, a 13 year old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy