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1) Middlesex
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Series
Language
English
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011
It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder
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Language
English
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Description
The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving.
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English
Description
In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories-many published for the first time-about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever
8) The switch
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"Kassie, a smart, fun-loving single woman ..., despite her neurotic best friend Wally's ... objections, decides it's time to have a baby--even if it means doing it herself-- with a little help from a charming sperm donor ... But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie's plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn't discovered until seven years later-- when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie's cute--though slightly neurotic--son"--Container
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (218 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American beauty: The lives and marriage of a seemingly ordinary couple begin slowly unraveling. The virgin suicides: Five teenaged sisters who are isolated by their over-protective parents become engulfed in a stunning chain of events.
10) Middlesex
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Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Español
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Cal Stephanides decide contar su historia, revelar su secreto. Porque Cal, como Tiresias, ha vivido como mujer y como hombre. Todo comienza en 1922, cuando los abuelos de Cal huyen tras la guerra. Se instalan en América, en casa de su prima Lina y su marido. Las dos parejas tendrán a sus hijos casi al mismo tiempo, y estos hijos, en un juego de consanguinidades, se casarán y serán los padres de Cal. Que cuando nace es Calliope, y parece destinada
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