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True grit

2010
In 1870s Arkansas, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross persuades U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn to ride into Indian Territory and help her capture the gang of outlaws who murdered her father.

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest

2010
Lisbeth Salander, recovering in a Swedish hospital from a gunshot wound, calls upon journalist Mikael Blomkvist to help prove her innocence in the murders of three people; but in order to do so, he must uncover a long-buried conspiracy within the Swedish Secret Service.

Carrie

1999
Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.

Gentlemen and players

2007
Young Snyde, whose father was dismissed from St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school, returns masquerading as a teacher planning revenge.

Undiscovered country

2008
Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson, trying to cope with the fact that his father committed suicide while they were out hunting, begins to question whether the gunshot wound was actually self-afflicted and takes it upon himself to uncover the true nature of the crime.

Forever

a novel
2003
Cormac O'Connor, an Irishman who has come to New York in 1740 to avenge the deaths of his parents, is given the gift of immortality after helping an African shaman, on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan, and goes on to become involved in many of the historical events of the city, while pursing a blood enemy throughout the ages.

The ghost in the Tokaido Inn

2005
Fourteen-year-old Seiki, a tea merchant's son who longs to be samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel.

The last juror

2004
In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for that crime, Danny Padgitt, son of Clanton's most brutally powerful family, is paroled and jury members start turning up dead.

Wonder when you'll miss me

2003
Sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle embarks on a journey of discovery when she runs off with the circus after attacking one of the boys who raped her the year before.

We all fall down

a novel
1991
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.

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