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THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald Fiction ISBN-10: 0743273567 ISBN-13: 9780743273565 |
| The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, THE GREAT GATSBY (1925) is the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his doomed love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. | |
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THE GREAT SANTINI Pat Conroy Fiction ISBN-10: 0553381555 ISBN-13: 9780553381559 |
| Bull Meecham is a Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife, beautiful and with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in. Bull Meecham is an explosive character --- a man you should hate, but a man you will love. | |
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A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY Libba Bray Fiction/Literary Suspense ISBN-10: 0385732317 ISBN-13: 9780385732314 |
| It's 1895, and 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent from her home in India to an English boarding school, where she is lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls --- and their foray into the spiritual world --- lead to? | |
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GREEN ANGEL Alice Hoffman Fiction ISBN-10: 0439443857 ISBN-13: 9780439443852 |
| Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story. | |
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THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Fiction ISBN-10: 0385340990 ISBN-13: 9780385340991 |
| A unique collaboration between the late Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece, Annie Barrows, results in a captivating historical epistolary novel. Set in the emotional rebuilding years after World War II, THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY illustrates the power of resilience, romance --- and reading. | |
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THE HANDMAID'S TALE Margaret Atwood Science Fiction ISBN-10: 038549081X ISBN-13: 9780385490818 |
| In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred can remember the days before the Republic of Gilead, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... | |
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THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Carson McCullers Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0618526412 ISBN-13: 9780618526413 |
| Written when Carson McCullers was 23, her novel's heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, he rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some --- like Mick --- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. | |
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HEART'S DESIRE Laura Pedersen Fiction ISBN-10: 0345479556 ISBN-13: 9780345479556 |
| It's impossible not to fall for the winningly eccentric cast of characters in Laura Pedersen's laugh-out-loud sequel to her novel BEGINNER'S LUCK. But underneath its witty repartee and humorous goings-on, it poses more serious questions of the heart that everyone can relate to: "What does your heart desire?" and "How do you know when someone is 'the one'?" | |
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HERO Perry Moore Fantasy ISBN-10: 1423101952 ISBN-13: 9781423101956 |
| High school basketball star Thom Creed is used to being on his own. His father Hal had once been one of the greatest and most beloved superheroes of The League --- until the Wilson Towers incident. After that, Thom's mother disappeared and his proud father became an outcast. The last thing in the world Thom would ever want is to disappoint his father. So Thom keeps two secrets from him: that he's gay and that he has the power to heal people. | |
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THE HIGHTEST TIDE Jim Lynch Fiction ISBN-10: 1582346291 ISBN-13: 9781582346298 |
| Jim Lynch's mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought debut novel is about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life, and the lives of those around him. | |
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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Douglas Adams Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0345391802 ISBN-13: 9780345391803 |
| Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begins an unusual journey through space. | |
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THE HOBBIT J.R.R. Tolkein Fantasy ISBN-10: 0345339681 ISBN-13: 9780345339683 |
| In the enchanting prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, hobbit Bilbo Baggins wants to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf comes along with a band of homeless dwarves. Soon Bilbo is drawn into their quest, facing evil orcs, savage wolves, giant spiders, and worse dangers. Finally, it is Bilbo --- alone and unaided --- who confronts the terrible dragon Smaug. | |
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HOOPS Walter Dean Myers Fiction ISBN-10: 0440938848 ISBN-13: 9780440938842 |
| Seventeen-year-old Lonnie Jackson's coach, Cal, knows Lonnie has what it takes to be a pro-basketball player, but warns him about giving in to the pressure. Cal knows because he, too, once had the chance and sold out. As the Tournament nears, Lonnie learns that some heavy bettors want Cal to keep him on the bench so that the team will lose the championship. Are they willing to blow the chance of a lifetime? | |
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THE HOST Stephenie Meyer Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0316068047 ISBN-13: 9780316068048 |
| In Stephenie Meyer's first book for adults, alien "souls" have taken over the minds and bodies of humans. Melanie Stryder, a captured rebel, resists the takeover of her mind by Wanderer, the soul implanted in her body. Under the influence of Melanie's emotions, Wanderer is compelled to search for Melanie's love Jared and brother Jamie, who are still in hiding. | |
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery ISBN-10: 0451528018 ISBN-13: 9780451528018 |
| What's the truth behind the legend of the hound of the Baskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast that's haunting the lonely moors? Enter Sherlock Holmes to find the answer, in this, the only full-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the most popular and enduring detective series ever written. | |
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THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION Nancy Farmer Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0689852231 ISBN-13: 9780689852237 |
| To most people around him, Matt is a beast, not a boy. But for El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself --- because Matt is himself. | |
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THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET Sandra Cisneros Fiction ISBN-10: 0679734775 ISBN-13: 9780679734772 |
| Told in a series of vignettes, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET is the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong--not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. | |
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HOW I LIVE NOW Meg Rosoff Fiction ISBN-10: 0553376055 ISBN-13: 9780553376050 |
| Soon after 15-year-old Daisy arrives at her relatives' remote farm in England, her aunt goes away on business. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked by an unnamed enemy. Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden at the farm, with no adults and no rules. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her four cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way. | |
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HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS Julia Alvarez Fiction ISBN-10: 0452287073 ISBN-13: 9780452287075 |
| Uprooted from their home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind. What they have lost --- and what they find --- is revealed in the fifteen interconnected stories that make up this exquisite novel from one of the premiere novelists of our time. | |
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THE HUNGER GAMES Suzanne Collins Science Fiction/Fantasy ISBN-10: 0439023483 ISBN-13: 9780439023481 |
| Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules and level of audience participation may change, but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place. | |
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THE HUNGRY OCEAN Linda Greenlaw Memoir ISBN-10: 0786885416 ISBN-13: 9780786885411 |
| Linda Greenlaw --- heralded by Sebastian Junger in THE PERFECT STORM as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast" --- tells the riveting story of her 30-day sword fishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the Eastern seaboard. Her true-life tale is complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they could have come from the pages of MOBY DICK. | |
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I AM THE CHEESE Robert Cormier Psychological Thriller ISBN-10: 0440940605 ISBN-13: 9780440940609 |
| In this psychological thriller, 14-year-old Adam Farmer's life is turned upside down by a sudden revelation that his whole life has been a fiction and his identity has been changed. As he tries to unlocks secrets of his past --- a missing father, government corruption, espionage --- the shy and confused Adam must hide these memories if he wants to stay alive. | |
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I AM THE MESSENGER Markus Zusak Fiction ISBN-10: 0375836675 ISBN-13: 9780375836671 |
| Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver, living in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog and hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when Ed becomes the messenger, making his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary). Only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission? | |
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I CAPTURE THE CASTLE Dodie Smith Romance ISBN-10: 0312201656 ISBN-13: 9780312201654 |
| Cassandra and her family live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the old castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. | |
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I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE Wally Lamb Fiction ISBN-10: 0060987561 ISBN-13: 9780060987565 |
| The author of SHE'S COME UNDONE has crafted a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga. A story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal, this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. | |
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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS Maya Angelou Autobiography ISBN-10: 055338001X ISBN-13: 9780553380019 |
| In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls with candor, humor, poignancy and grace how her journey began --- growing up in a small, rural community in Arkansas during the 1930s. | |
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IF YOU COME SOFTLY Jacqueline Woodson Fiction ISBN-10: 0142406015 ISBN-13: 9780142406014 |
| Miah and Ellie meet at a private school in New York and fall in love. Theirs is a rare and special first love, but the people around them don't see it that way. They can only see black and white: Miah is black, Ellie is white and Jewish. And their love, no matter how real, is too strange and scary for the world they live in. | |
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IN COLD BLOOD Truman Capote True Crime ISBN-10: 0679745580 ISBN-13: 9780679745587 |
| In the work that launched the true crime genre, Truman Capote's paints a chilling portrait of the savage murders of four members of the Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959. He reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. | |
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IN COUNTRY Bobbie Ann Mason Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0060835176 ISBN-13: 9780060835170 |
| In the summer of 1984, 17-year-old Sam Huges tries to understand why and how Vietnam has impacted the lives of the vets of Hopewell, Kentucky --- including her father, a young soldier killed in the war, and her uncle Emmett, with whom she lives. | |
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INTERPRETER OF MALADIES: STORIES Jhumpa Lahiri Fiction/Short Stories ISBN-10: 039592720X ISBN-13: 9780395927205 |
| Maladies both accurately diagnosed and misinterpreted, matters both temporary and life changing, relationships in flux and unshakeable, unexpected blessings and sudden calamities, and the powers of survival --- these are among the themes of Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary, Pulitzer Prize-winning debut collection of stories set in both India and America. | |
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INTO THIN AIR Jon Krakauer Nonfiction ISBN-10: 0385494785 ISBN-13: 9780385494786 |
| A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that suggested "a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more --- including Krakauer's --- in guilt-ridden disarray, provided the impetus for this epic account of the May 1996 disaster. | |
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IRONMAN Chris Crutcher Fiction ISBN-10: 044021971X ISBN-13: 9780440219712 |
| Following angry outbursts at school, Bo Brewster is sent to Mr. Nak's Anger Management Group, where he meets a hard-edged pack of survivors whose own defenses are rigged as high as his. It is here he meets and falls in love with Shelly, a future American Gladiator, whose passion for physical challenge more than matches his. | |
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IRONSIDE: A Modern Faery’s Tale Holly Black Fantasy ISBN-10: 0689868200 ISBN-13: 9780689868207 |
| IRONSIDE is Holly Black's third dark faery tale and the second to feature Kaye, a changeling pixie who grew up thinking she was a human girl. Torn between her faery lover Roiben and the human world she knows, the book finds Kaye struggling to maintain her human identity while embracing her faerie destiny. | |
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IT Stephen King Horror ISBN-10: 0451169514 ISBN-13: 9780451169518 |
| Master of horror Stephen King spins a story about seven kids who stumbled upon a hidden terror in their hometown. Now, as adults, they are summoned together when the cycle of evil begins again. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end, and the evil without a name. | |
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IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY Ned Vizzini Fiction ISBN-10: 0786851961 ISBN-13: 9780786851966 |
| Like many smart, ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner seeks entry into Manhattan 's most prestigious school. With single-minded determination, he works night and day to ace the entrance exam and gets in. That's when everything starts to unravel. | |
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JACOB HAVE I LOVED Katherine Paterson Fiction ISBN-10: 0064470598 ISBN-13: 9780064470599 |
| Louise has had enough of her twin sister. Caroline is beautiful. Caroline is talented. Caroline is better. Growing up on the small island of Rass in Chesapeake Bay, Caroline seems to do nothing but take from Louise: their parents' love, Louise's chances for an education, her dreams for the future. They have spent their lives entwined --- sleeping in the same room, eating at the same table, learning in the same classroom --- and yet somehow nothing can bring them together. Louise's only hope lies in seeking a place for herself beyond the stretch of Rass's shores and her sister's shadow. What will it take for her to break free? | |
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB Amy Tan Fiction ISBN-10: 0143038095 ISBN-13: 9780143038092 |
| Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. And forty years later the stories and history continue. | |
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JUMPING THE SCRATCH Sarah Weeks Fiction ISBN-10: 0060541091 ISBN-13: 9780060541095 |
| After his cat dies, his father leaves, and his aunt has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie Reardon hopes that his life will be back to normal soon. Unfortunately there's another bad thing in store for Jamie --- something he'd give anything to be able to forget. | |
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JUST IN CASE Meg Rosoff Fiction ISBN-10: 0385746784 ISBN-13: 9780385746786 |
| After finding his younger brother teetering on the edge of his balcony, 15-year-old David Case realizes the fragility of life and senses impending doom. Without looking back, he changes his name to Justin and assumes a new identity, struggling to survive in a world where tragedy is around every corner. | |
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KEEPING THE MOON Sarah Dessen Fiction ISBN-10: 0141310073 ISBN-13: 9780141310077 |
| Always an outcast --- first for being fat and then for being "easy" --- Colie has no friends at home and doesn't expect to find any in Colby, North Carolina, where she's spending the summer with her eccentric aunt. But then she lands a job at the Last Chance Café and meets fellow waitresses Morgan and Isabel. Wacky yet wise, Morgan and Isabel help Colie come to see herself in a new way. | |
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KING DORK Frank Portman Fiction ISBN-10: 0385732910 ISBN-13: 9780385732918 |
| Frank Portman's inaugural foray into the world of young adult fiction, pseudo-slacker Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork) becomes obsessed with deciphering mysterious messages left behind in his deceased father's copy of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. | |
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THE KITCHEN BOY Robert Alexander Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0142003816 ISBN-13: 9780142003817 |
| On the night of July 16, 1918, Bolshevik revolutionaries murdered the entire Russian royal family in a hail of gunfire. No one survived who might bear witness to what really happened on that mysterious and bloody night --- or so it was thought. | |
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THE KITE RUNNER Khaled Hosseini Fiction ISBN-10: 1594480001 ISBN-13: 9781594480003 |
| An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, THE KITE RUNNER takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, it is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. | |
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KIT'S WILDERNESS David Almond Fiction ISBN-10: 0440416051 ISBN-13: 9780440416050 |
| The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old coal-mining town, to care for Kit's recently widowed grandfather. When Kit meets John Askew, another boy whose family had both worked and died in the mines, Askew invites Kit to join him in playing a game called Death. Kit's association with Askew takes him into the mines where the boys look to find the childhood ghosts of their long-gone ancestors. | |
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LAST CALL Laura Pedersen Fiction ISBN-10: 0345461916 ISBN-13: 9780345461919 |
| Hayden MacBride is terminally ill, but he refuses to let it slow him down. In fact, he now spends his days crashing funerals for the free food and insight into the Great Beyond. Then he meets Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders while she searches for answers. And lucky for Rosamond, she has found just the right person to teach her how to live...and to love. | |
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LES MISERABLES Victor Hugo Fiction ISBN-10: 141650026X ISBN-13: 9781416500261 |
| In Victor Hugo's classic tale, ex-convict Jean Valjean struggles for redemption in the punishing world of post-Napoleonic France. | |
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LETTERS TO A BULLIED GIRL Olivia Gardner, with Emily and Sarah Buder Self-Help ISBN-10: 0061544620 ISBN-13: 9780061544620 |
| Olivia Gardner and the Buder sisters share an inspiring selection of messages that arrived from across America --- the personal, often painful remembrances of former targets, remorseful bullies and sympathetic bystanders. Though addressed to Olivia, the letters speak to all young people who have been bullied, offer advice and hope to those who suffer, and provide a wake-up call to all who have ever been involved in bullying. | |
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET Rainer Maria Rilke Nonfiction ISBN-10: 0394741048 ISBN-13: 9780394741048 |
| This collection of letters was penned over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by Rainer Marie Rilke, the great Austro-German poet whose greatest work was still to come. | |
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LIFE OF PI Yann Martel Fiction/Adventure ISBN-10: 0156030209 ISBN-13: 9780156030205 |
| When sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only a menacing 450-pound Bengal tiger for company, he quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to make sure the tiger is more afraid of him than he is of it. | |
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THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE C.S. Lewis Fantasy ISBN-10: 0060764899 ISBN-13: 9780060764890 |
| The first volume in the Chronicles of Narnia series follows the four Pevensie siblings into the magical world of Narnia. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to try to overcome the White Witch's powerful hold over Narnia. | |
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THE LITTLE PRINCE Antoine de Saint-Exupery Fantasy ISBN-10: 0156012197 ISBN-13: 9780156012195 |
| Since 1943, the wise little boy from Asteroid B-612 has led children and adults to deeper understandings of love, friendship, and responsibility. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished as THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. | |
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A LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Memoir ISBN-10: 0374105235 ISBN-13: 9780374105235 |
| In A LONG WAY GONE, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of 12, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By 13, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah --- at heart a gentle boy --- found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. | |
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA John Green Fiction ISBN-10: 0525475060 ISBN-13: 9780525475064 |
| Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his fairly normal life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." There, he unexpectedly learns some valuable life lessons. | |
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LORD OF THE FLIES William Golding Fiction ISBN-10: 0399501487 ISBN-13: 9780399501487 |
| William Golding's classic novel of savagery and survival begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. | |
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS J.R.R. Tolkein Fantasy ISBN-10: 0618640150 ISBN-13: 9780618640157 |
| J.R.R. Tolkien's three-book epic encompassing THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and THE RETURN OF THE KING) is a battle of good versus evil in the fictional world of Middle Earth. | |
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THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES Shirley Jackson Fiction/Short Stories ISBN-10: 0374529531 ISBN-13: 9780374529536 |
| One of the most terrifying stories written in this century, "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories that range from hilarious to horrible. | |
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THE LOVELY BONES Alice Sebold Fiction ISBN-10: 0316168815 ISBN-13: 9780316168816 |
| When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. From this strange new place, she watches life on Earth continuing without her and tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. | |
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LUSH Natasha Friend Fiction ISBN-10: 043985346X ISBN-13: 9780439853460 |
| It's not easy being a 13-year-old girl. But it's even harder when your father is a drunk. For Samantha, this has been going on for so long that she's almost used to it. But, truthfully, you never get used to it. Especially when it starts to get worse. | |
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MARLEY & ME John Grogan Memoir ISBN-10: 0060817089 ISBN-13: 9780060817084 |
| When John and Jenny Grogan decide to test their nurturing instincts before starting a family, they bring home a Labrador retriever pup. What they get is Marley, a whirling dervish of a dog who destroys their house, flunks out of obedience school --- and ultimately steals their hearts. | |
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MAUS I: A SURVIVOR'S TALE: My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman Graphic Novel ISBN-10: 0394747232 ISBN-13: 9780394747231 |
| Art Spiegelman recounts in comic-book format the story of his father, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and of his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story --- and with history itself. | |
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MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT James Patterson Fiction/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0446617792 ISBN-13: 9780446617796 |
| James Patterson takes readers on a thrilling ride in his first book for young adults. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, Angel, and Maximum are six kids who amazingly have the ability to fly --- and they will need their wings as five of them embark on a rescue mission that will change their lives forever. | |
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MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT – FOREVER Fiction/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0316155594 ISBN-13: 9780316155595 |
| In the follow-up to THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, Maximum Ride and her flock fly south on a perilous quest to find their parents after having rescued Angel and recovered secret documents about their origins. But just when they think they've finally escaped the hungry claws of evil Erasers, they're discovered by an FBI agent and forced to face perhaps an even worse nightmare: going to school. | |
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MAXIMUM RIDE #3: SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS James Patterson Fantasy/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0316155608 ISBN-13: 9780316155601 |
| Max and her flock of human/bird hybrids are back for their third (and final) book of nonstop action and adventure. Once again, they find themselves up against enormous challenges, like escaping the evil scientists and saving the world. But can they survive their biggest challenge --- a disagreement that splits the flock into two separate groups on opposite sides of the planet? | |
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MAXIMUM RIDE #4: THE FINAL WARNING James Patterson Fiction/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0316002860 ISBN-13: 9780316002868 |
| Max and her flock of human/bird hybrids are back for their fourth installment of nonstop action and adventure. It wouldn’t be a Maximum Ride book without our heroes facing gigantic, seemingly impossible challenges, like escaping the evil scientists and saving the world. This time, the flock heads to Antarctica to study and combat global warming. | |
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ME & EMMA Elizabeth Flock Fiction ISBN-10: 0778322858 ISBN-13: 9780778322856 |
| In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old-playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places. But even her imaginative mind can't shut out the realities of her impoverished North Carolina home or help her protect her younger sister, Emma. | |
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ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY David Sedaris Memoir ISBN-10: 0316776963 ISBN-13: 9780316776967 |
| A move to Paris, a sibling who talks incessant hip-hop slang, restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers, cashiers with 6-inch fingernails, and other observations and experiences in the world of Dave Barry inspired the hilarious pieces in this collection. | |
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MELTING STONES Tamora Pierce Fantasy ISBN-10: 0545052645 ISBN-13: 9780545052641 |
| Four years have passed since Evvy left the streets of Chammur to begin her training as a stone mage. At 14, she's unhappy to be on a new journey with her mentor, prickly green mage Rosethorn, who has been called to the Battle Islands to determine why the plants and animals there are dying. Evvy's job is to listen and learn, but she can't keep quiet and do nothing. With the help of Luvo, the living stone heart of a mountain, Evvy uncovers an important clue. Now, with the island on the brink of disaster, it's up to Evvy to avert the destruction that looms ahead. | |
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MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC Gabrielle Zevin Fiction ISBN-10: 0374349460 ISBN-13: 9780374349462 |
| If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family. She’d know about her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. | |
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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0307275167 ISBN-13: 9780307275165 |
| In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and exotic world --- that of Sayuri, one of Japan 's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. The story follows Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. | |
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THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER Kim Edwards Fiction ISBN-10: 0143037145 ISBN-13: 9780143037149 |
| Kim Edwards's stunning family drama articulates every mother's silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. | |
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Nicholas Sparks Romance ISBN-10: 0446606812 ISBN-13: 9780446606813 |
| Thrown into the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere but instead is found just three weeks after its journey begins. Inside is a letter that leads Theresa Osborne on a life-changing journey. Message in a Bottle is a story of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most. | |
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MESSENGER Lois Lowry Futuristic Fiction ISBN-10: 0440239125 ISBN-13: 9780440239123 |
| In the companion volume to GATHERING BLUE and THE GIVER, the Village where Matty has lived for the past six years is now closed to outsiders because something sinister has seeped in to the community. Matty, who has been invaluable as a messenger, must now make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself. | |
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THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER Julie Hearn Fiction ISBN-10: 0689876904 ISBN-13: 9780689876905 |
| In THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER, Julie Hearn spins a darkly complex dual tale of deception, witchcraft, hypocrisy, and betrayal set in seventeenth-century England during the conflicted days of the Civil War. | |
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MONSTER Walter Dean Myers Fiction ISBN-10: 0064407314 ISBN-13: 978006440731 |
| Steve Harmon is black. He's in jail, maybe forever. He's on trial for murder. And he's sixteen years old. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout. Was he involved, or was he simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? | |
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MY JIM Nancy Rawles Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 140005401X ISBN-13: 97814000540151 |
| MY JIM is a deeply moving recasting of one of the most controversial characters in American literature, Huckleberry Finn's Jim. The story is told in the voice of Sadie Watson, an ex-slave who helps her granddaughter confront the decisions she needs to make. To do this, Sadie mines her memory for the tale of the love of her life --- Jim. | |
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MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES James Thurber Autobiography ISBN-10: 0060933089 ISBN-13: 9780060933081 |
| Widely hailed as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature. | |
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MY SISTER'S KEEPER Jodi Picoult Fiction ISBN-10: 0743454537 ISBN-13: 9780743454537 |
| Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. In MY SISTER'S KEEPER, she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. | |
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MYSTIC RIVER Dennis Lehane Thriller ISBN-10: 0380731851 ISBN-13: 9780380731855 |
| A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, MYSTIC RIVER is also an epic novel of love, loyalty, faith, and family. Twenty-five years after a terrible incident destroyed their boyhood friendship, three Boston men are brought together by another tragedy --- causing conflict and finally bringing to light what happened all those years ago. | |
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NATIVE SON Richard Wright Fiction ISBN-10: 0060929804 ISBN-13: 9780060929800 |
| NATIVE SON tells the story of a young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. | |
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THE NECESSARY BEGGAR Susan Palwick Fiction ISBN-10: 076531097X ISBN-13: 9780765310972 |
| Susan Palwick's powerful tale of a family cast out of an idyllic realm, learning to live in our troubled world, is an exciting and insightful examination of humanity. After young Darroti is accused of murder, he and his family must leave their home in Lmabantunk, the Glorious City, for exile in an unknown world --- an all-too-familiar America, a country under attack in a world torn by hatred and war. | |
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NEVER LET ME GO Kazuo Ishiguro Fiction ISBN-10: 1400078776 ISBN-13: 9781400078776 |
| As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special --- and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. | |
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NEW MOON Stephenie Meyer Horror/Romance ISBN-10: 0316160199 ISBN-13: 9780316160193 |
| Haunted by darkness and despair following the departure of her beloved Edward, Bella Swan must adjust to life without vampire companions --- but with a new source of fascination and danger. | |
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NICKEL AND DIMED: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenreich Current Affairs ISBN-10: 0805063897 ISBN-13: 9780805063899 |
| Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? Inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to find out --- by joining them. This expose, acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this expose has changed the way America perceives its working poor. | |
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NIGHT Elie Wiesel Memoir ISBN-10: 0374500010 ISBN-13: 9780374500016 |
| A watershed memoir first published in 1958, Elie Wiesel's NIGHT recalls his survival as a teenager in Nazi death camps. For anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, or of the nature of humanity itself, Night is essential reading. | |
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NINE STORIES J.D. Salinger Fiction/Short Stories ISBN-10: 0316767727 ISBN-13: 9780316767729 |
| The nine stories in this inventive collection by the author of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE share many of the same qualities that color J.D. Salinger's other works --- humor, intensity, and a lack of artifice. | |
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NINETEEN MINUTES Jodi Picoult Fiction ISBN-10: 0743496728 ISBN-13: 9780743496728 |
| Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens --- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. | |
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THE NOAH CONFESSIONS Barbara Hall Fiction ISBN-10: 0385733283 ISBN-13: 9780385733281 |
| THE NOAH CONFESSIONS Barbara Hall Fiction ISBN-10: 0385733283 ISBN-13: 9780385733281 |
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A NORTHERN LIGHT Jennifer Donnelly Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0152053107 ISBN-13: 9780152053109 |
| Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original. | |
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NOT A HAPPY CAMPER: A Memoir Mindy Schneider Memoir ISBN-10: 0802143695 ISBN-13: 9780802143693 |
| NOT A HAPPY CAMPER chronicles 13-year-old Mindy's adventures at a rainy, rundown, wildly unsupervised camp in Maine called Kin-A-Hurra. For eight eye-opening and unforgettable weeks, she and her eccentric band of friends keep busy feuding in color wars, failing at sports and uncovering the camp's hidden past. | |
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THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks Romance ISBN-10: 0446605239 ISBN-13: 9780446605236 |
| Noah Calhoun carried his love for the willowy Allie Nelson with him long after their youthful romance ended. And Allie could not escape her feelings for Noah even after she became engaged to another man. In THE NOTEBOOK, Nicholas Sparks presents a question universal in its appeal: What would happen if two people were given a second chance at the love of a lifetime? | |
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NOW YOU SEE HER Jacquelyn Mitchard Fiction ISBN-10: 0061116831 ISBN-13: 9780061116834 |
| Hope has a life that most girls would die for: she's beautiful, talented and on the track to stardom. So what could possibly cause the girl with everything to fake her own abduction? When you think you've figured out the answer, think again! Hope will keep you guessing to the very end. | |
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THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY Alexander McCall Smith Mystery ISBN-10: 1400031346 ISBN-13: 9781400031344 |
| This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series features the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe of Botswana, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." | |
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THE OFF SEASON Catherine Gilbert Murdock Fiction ISBN-10: 0618686959 ISBN-13: 9780618686957 |
| In this gripping sequel to the award-winning DAIRY QUEEN, D.J. Schwenk’s life takes a sharp downhill turn after the promising beginning to her junior year. But, as D.J.'s fans might predict, the linebacker tackles challenges with her trademark guts and good humor. | |
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Ken Kesey Fiction ISBN-10: 0451163966 ISBN-13: 9780141181226 |
| Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants --- especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. | |
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fiction ISBN-10: 0060740450 ISBN-13: 9780060740450 |
| Using his signature style of magic realism, Gabriel García Márquez chronicles 100 years in the mythical South American town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. | |
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THE OUTSIDERS S.E. Hinton Fiction ISBN-10: 014038572X ISBN-13: 9780140385724 |
| Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front. Since his parents' death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging, long-haired boys from the wrong side of the tracks. When his best friend, Johnny, kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelops Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events. | |
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A PAINTED HOUSE John Grisham Fiction ISBN-10: 044023722X ISBN-13: 9780440237228 |
| In a departure from his well-known legal thrillers, John Grisham crafts a tale of small town American life in rural Arkansas in the '50s. Seven-year-old Luke Chandler has never kept a secret or told a single lie in his young life until September of 1952, when two groups of migrant workers --- and two very dangerous men --- come through the Arkansas Delta to work on the Chandler cotton farm. | |
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PAPER TOWNS John Green Fiction ISBN-10: 0525478183 ISBN-13: 9780525478188 |
| When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night --- dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge --- he follows her. Margo has always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she has always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q…until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q. | |
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PEACE LIKE A RIVER Leif Enger Fiction ISBN-10: 0802139256 ISBN-13: 9780802139252 |
| Set in the Minnesota countryside and North Dakota Badlands of the early 1960s, PEACE LIKE A RIVER is a moving, engrossing, beautifully told story about one family's quest to retrieve its most wayward member. | |
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PEONY IN LOVE Lisa See Fiction ISBN-10: 140006466X ISBN-13: 9781400064663 |
| PEONY IN LOVE --- the extraordinary new novel from the author of SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN --- tells of three women in 17th-century China who become emotionally involved with a famous opera called The Peony Pavilion, which was known to cause lovesickness and even death. | |
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PERFECT Natasha Friend Fiction ISBN-10: 1571316515 ISBN-13: 9781571316516 |
| Although PERFECT is about a girl struggling with bulimia, it's so much more than a "problem novel." It also explores the intersections between family history and personal problems, as well as the differences between outward appearances and the complex emotions that lie beneath the surface. | |
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