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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code:   DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception:    DatasetGenerationCastError
Message:      An error occurred while generating the dataset

All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 10 new columns ({'precision_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_10', 'ndcg_at_5', 'annotated_relevant_total', 'retrieved_results', 'mrr', 'annotated_pool_recall_at_10', 'ndcg_at_10', 'precision_at_10'}) and 6 missing columns ({'document_text', 'retrieval_rank', 'book_id', 'relevant', 'source', 'title'}).

This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using

hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv (at revision 3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531), ['hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates_labeled.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_labels_checkpoint.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv']

Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1848, in _prepare_split_single
                  writer.write_table(table)
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 765, in write_table
                  self._write_table(pa_table, writer_batch_size=writer_batch_size)
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 773, in _write_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
                  ...<3 lines>...
                  )
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              category: string
              query: string
              retrieved_results: int64
              annotated_relevant_total: int64
              precision_at_5: double
              precision_at_10: double
              hit_rate_at_5: double
              hit_rate_at_10: double
              mrr: double
              ndcg_at_5: double
              ndcg_at_10: double
              annotated_pool_recall_at_10: double
              -- schema metadata --
              pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 1798
              to
              {'category': Value('string'), 'query': Value('string'), 'book_id': Value('int64'), 'title': Value('string'), 'document_text': Value('string'), 'source': Value('string'), 'retrieval_rank': Value('float64'), 'relevant': Value('float64')}
              because column names don't match
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1369, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
                                                                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      builder, max_dataset_size_bytes=max_dataset_size_bytes
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  )
                  ^
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 948, in stream_convert_to_parquet
                  builder._prepare_split(split_generator=splits_generators[split], file_format="parquet")
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1694, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
                      gen_kwargs=gen_kwargs, job_id=job_id, **_prepare_split_args
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                  ):
                  ^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1850, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
                  ...<4 lines>...
                  )
              datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
              
              All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 10 new columns ({'precision_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_10', 'ndcg_at_5', 'annotated_relevant_total', 'retrieved_results', 'mrr', 'annotated_pool_recall_at_10', 'ndcg_at_10', 'precision_at_10'}) and 6 missing columns ({'document_text', 'retrieval_rank', 'book_id', 'relevant', 'source', 'title'}).
              
              This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
              
              hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv (at revision 3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531), ['hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates_labeled.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_labels_checkpoint.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv']
              
              Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)

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category
string
query
string
book_id
int64
title
string
document_text
string
source
string
retrieval_rank
float64
relevant
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fantasy
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A Redwall Winter's Tale
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9
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Eleven Minutes
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The Book of Evidence
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historical
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historical
A historical story about important events and history
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7
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historical
A historical story about important events and history
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities Author: Charles Dickens Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, romance, young-adult Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasant...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, fiction, non-fiction Description: Classic Victorian tale of the last days of Pompeii, doomed city that lay at the feet of Mount Vesuvius. From poets to flower-girls, gladiators to Roman tribunes, here is a pl...
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The Gettysburg Address
Title: The Gettysburg Address Author: Abraham Lincoln Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, children Description: The words of President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address are as relevant and meaningful today as they were in 1863. This magnificent book is a stunning exploration of some ...
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Liar's Poker
Title: Liar's Poker Author: Michael Lewis Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction, comics, graphic Description: In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning ...
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Robinson Crusoe
Title: Robinson Crusoe Author: Daniel Defoe Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, children, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal Description: 'A raging wave, mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us...we were all swallowed up in a moment. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up...
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Daisy-Head Mayzie
Title: Daisy-Head Mayzie Author: Dr. Seuss Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew's head, she is faced with her classmates' taunts, her parents' dismay, and a publicity agent's greed. How poor Mayzie learns that lov...
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Straight
Title: Straight Author: Dick Francis Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction Description: A jockey becomes the sole inheritor of his late brother's business, horse, mistress, and enemies.
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Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy (Runaways, #1)
Title: Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy (Runaways, #1) Author: Brian K. Vaughan Genres: comics, graphic, young-adult, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, mystery, thriller, crime, romance Description: Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico - six young friends whose lives are about to take an unexpected dramatic t...
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Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1)
Title: Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1) Author: Rodman Philbrick Genres: fiction, young-adult, children Description: Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. A wonderful ...
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About a Boy
Title: About a Boy Author: Nick Hornby Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance, children Description: 'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: atte...
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Bridge to Terabithia
Title: Bridge to Terabithia Author: Katherine Paterson Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal Description: Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first...
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Bridge to Terabithia
Title: Bridge to Terabithia Author: Katherine Paterson Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal Description: Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first...
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A young adult story about growing up and friendship
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A Separate Peace
Title: A Separate Peace Author: John Knowles Genres: young-adult, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, children Description: An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its...
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Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp
Title: Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp Author: C.D. Payne Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance Description: Six months in the life of the world's most dangerous teenager. Youth in Revoltis the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high...
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Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
Title: Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon Author: Paula Danziger Genres: children, fiction Description: Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other in class, help each other with homework, and always stick up for each other. Justin never says thi...
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Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3)
Title: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3) Author: Ann Brashares Genres: young-adult, fiction, romance, children Description: "A fun and poignant coming-of-age story," declared Entertainment Weeklyof the third novel in the #1 New York Timesbestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants...
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Godless
Title: Godless Author: Pete Hautman Genres: young-adult, fiction, children, fantasy, paranormal Description: "Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?" Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water towe...
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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #2)
Title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #2) Author: Ann Brashares Genres: young-adult, fiction, romance, children Description: With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them--Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen--embark on the...
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Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1)
Title: Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1) Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Genres: fiction Description: Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions -...
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Tuesdays with Morrie
Title: Tuesdays with Morrie Author: Mitch Albom Genres: non-fiction, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, young-adult, comics, graphic Description: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you ...
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Andrew Carnegie
Title: Andrew Carnegie Author: David Nasaw Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, comics, graphic Description: Majestically told and based on materials not available to any previous biographer, the definitive life of Andrew Carnegie-one of American business's most iconic and elusive titans-by t...
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Crow Lake
Title: Crow Lake Author: Mary Lawson Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance Description: Crow Lakeis that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing--a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense tale...
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Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
Title: Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2) Author: D.H. Lawrence Genres: fiction, romance, history, historical fiction, biography Description: "An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expressions which greeted the publication of "Women in Love". Yet Lawrence regarded t...
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The Enormous Crocodile
Title: The Enormous Crocodile Author: Roald Dahl Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other anim...
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Daisy-Head Mayzie
Title: Daisy-Head Mayzie Author: Dr. Seuss Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew's head, she is faced with her classmates' taunts, her parents' dismay, and a publicity agent's greed. How poor Mayzie learns that lov...
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A Redwall Winter's Tale
Title: A Redwall Winter's Tale Author: Brian Jacques Genres: fantasy, paranormal, children, fiction, young-adult, poetry Description: This sumptuous picture book tells the story of fun-loving Bungo, the molebabe, and his friend Tubspike, the hedgehog maid, who welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to ...
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Title: Boy: Tales of Childhood Author: Roald Dahl Genres: children, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, comics, graphic, young-adult, fiction Description: In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position a...
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Title: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Author: Dr. Seuss Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). A simple rhyming book for learner readers, it is a book with a freewhee...
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Dr. Seuss's ABC
Title: Dr. Seuss's ABC Author: Dr. Seuss Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: This is an adaptation from Dr. Seuss's ABC Published by Random House in 1963. Simple, Silly, Sturdy Books for Babies of All Ages!
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Title: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Author: Roald Dahl Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, poetry Description: A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, w...
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Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
Title: Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book Author: Dr. Seuss Genres: children, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction Description: Illus. in color. "Deliberately calculated to make its readers yawn. No one could resist those zillions of astonishing sleepyheads."-- "The New York Times."
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author: Eric Carle Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillaris a perennial favorite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry ca...
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A children's story suitable for young readers
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The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
Title: The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly Author: Luis Sepulveda Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal, romance Description: A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperbac...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy
Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy Author: Brian Sibley Genres: non-fiction, fantasy, paranormal, fiction Description: The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy is a lavishly illustrated, behind-the-sce...
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
Title: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam Author: Mark Bowden Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction Description: From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Downcomes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle w...
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Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Title: Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea Author: Mark Kurlansky Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction Description: In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as...
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Title: Welcome to the Monkey House Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal Description: This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House(1968) incorporates almost completely Vonnegut's 1961 "Canary in a Cathouse," which appeared within a few months of Slaughterhouse-Fiveand capitalized ...
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Title: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Author: David Rakoff Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction Description: A bitingly funny grand tour of our ...
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Life of Pi
Title: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult Description: Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age....
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The Dolls' House
Title: The Dolls' House Author: Rumer Godden Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, comics, graphic Description: Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family are owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and are very happy, except for one thing:...
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Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Title: Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Author: Louis de Bernieres Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fantasy, paranormal, mystery, thriller, crime Description: In this iridescent gem of a novel, Louis de Bernieres returns to the territory he mapped so well in "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Part...
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Life and Times of Michael K
Title: Life and Times of Michael K Author: J.M. Coetzee Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography Description: In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Im...
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Stranger than Fiction
Title: Stranger than Fiction Author: Chuck Palahniuk Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction Description: Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse...
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Saints
Title: Saints Author: Orson Scott Card Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fantasy, paranormal, romance, young-adult, non-fiction Description: When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. "Soon," he replie...
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Cannery Row
Title: Cannery Row Author: John Steinbeck Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography Description: Cannery Rowis a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on...
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The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Title: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Author: Neal Stephenson Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal Description: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young gi...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities Author: Charles Dickens Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, romance, young-adult Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasant...
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A Redwall Winter's Tale
Title: A Redwall Winter's Tale Author: Brian Jacques Genres: fantasy, paranormal, children, fiction, young-adult, poetry Description: This sumptuous picture book tells the story of fun-loving Bungo, the molebabe, and his friend Tubspike, the hedgehog maid, who welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to ...
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