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Imperfect Birds
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Imperfect BirdsImperfect Birds

Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed.
 
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Tags: Elizabeth, school, Rosie, there, disturbing, Imperfect, Birds
Past Imperfect: a novel
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Past Imperfect: a novelPast Imperfect: a novel

A middle-aged Londoner is forced to revisit his past in Fellowes's slick and dexterous second novel (after the bestselling Snobs). Former friend Damian Baxter, after 40 years of estrangement, convinces the unnamed narrator to locate the woman Damian believes to have borne his child in 1968. As the narrator looks back on the events of that fateful summer, Fellowes exercises his considerable talent for observing the nuances of custom and class distinction.
 
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Tags: Fellowes, novel, narrator, Damian, after, Imperfect
Dreamtelling
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DreamtellingDreamtelling

In "Dreamtelling", Pierre Sorlin does not deal with our nocturnal visions "per se", but rather with what we say regarding them. He explores the influence of dreams on our imaginations and the various - sometimes inconsistent, always imperfect - theories humans have contrived to elucidate them.
 
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Tags: Dreamtelling, always, inconsistent, sometimes, imperfect, various
Future Imperfect
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Future ImperfectFuture Imperfect

Mal was heading across an America ravaged by worldwide earthquakes when he ran into a dying stranger who babbled of men who weren't really men, and had an unusual gold coin which no expert could identify. Soon, someone who wanted the coin back was on his trail - and they weren't human...The commander of the fleet that just annihilated the alien enemy has decided to become world dictator unless his second in command can stop him...A national test condemns a man to a life of unskilled labour, unless he can find a way around the system...
 
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Tags: unless, werent, world, dictator, Imperfect, Future, unless, decided, become