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THE PERFECT STORM Sebastian Junger Nonfiction/Adventure ISBN-10: 006101351X ISBN-13: 9780061013515 |
| October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" --- a tempest that may happen only once in a century. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have witnessed. Except for the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards the storm's hellish center. | |
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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Stephen Chbosky Fiction ISBN-10: 0671027344 ISBN-13: 9780671027346 |
| Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective, but there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school, where Charlie is caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it --- setting him on a strange course through uncharted territory. | |
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PERSEPOLIS Marjane Satrapi Graphic Novel ISBN-10: 0375422307 ISBN-13: 9780375422300 |
| Marjane Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran, Iran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. | |
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THE PIGMAN Paul Zindel Fiction ISBN-10: 0553263218 ISBN-13: 9780553263213 |
| Meet Mr. Pignati, a lonely old man with a beer belly and an awful secret. He's the Pigman, and he's got a great big twinkling smile. When John and Lorraine, two high school sophomores, meet Mr. Pignati, they learn his whole sad, zany story. They tell it right here in this book --- the truth, and nothing but the truth --- no matter how many people it shocks or hurts. | |
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PILLARS OF THE EARTH Ken Follett Fiction ISBN-10: 0451166892 ISBN-13: 9780451166890 |
| The building of a mighty Gothic cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge in twelfth-century England sets the stage for a story of intrigue and power, revenge and betrayal, as the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide. | |
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THE PILOT'S WIFE Anita Shreve Fiction ISBN-10: 0316601950 ISBN-13: 9780316601955 |
| Being married to a pilot means you have to be a bit of a fatalist, but nothing has prepared Kathryn Lyons for the news of her husband's fatal crash. Even before the plane is located off the Irish coast, a callous media turns her personal life inside out. As Kathryn struggles with rage and grief, a bizarre mystery swims into focus: Who was this man she loved, and what lay behind the life she took for granted. | |
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PLAINSONG Kent Haruf Fiction ISBN-10: 0375705856 ISBN-13: 9780375705854 |
| PLAINSONG is a powerful tale of seven lonely lives set on the stark but beautiful High Plains of Colorado. From these separate strands emerges a vision of life --- and of the community and landscape that bind them together --- that is both luminous and enduring. | |
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THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA Philip Roth Fiction ISBN-10: 1400079497 ISBN-13: 9781400079490 |
| Philip Roth imagines an alternate version of American history in which Charles Lindbergh is elected President. The heroic aviator and rabid isolationist negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election heralds a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America. | |
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THE POISONWOOD BIBLE Barbara Kingsolver Fiction ISBN-10: 0060930535 ISBN-13: 9780060930530 |
| In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo --- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. | |
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POWERS Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy ISBN-10: 0152057706 ISBN-13: 9780152057701 |
| Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav’s greatest test of all is facing his powers so that he can come to understand himself and finally find a true home. | |
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A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY John Irving Fiction ISBN-10: 0345417976 ISBN-13: 9780345417978 |
| Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet at the same time Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking character Irving has created. | |
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PRETTIES Scott Westerfeld Fantasy/Adventure ISBN-10: 0689865392 ISBN-13: 9780689865398 |
| In this riveting sequel to Scott Westerfeld's UGLIES, Tally is now one of the pretties. Has the surgery performed on the brains of pretties wiped out all she knew as an ugly? Is there any chance she can rescue herself and some of her friends? | |
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen Fiction ISBN-10: 0141439513 ISBN-13: 9780141439518 |
| Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet. Her early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a comedy profoundly concerned with happiness and how it might be achieved. | |
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THE PRINCESS BRIDE William Goldman Fiction ISBN-10: 0345418263 ISBN-13: 9780345418265 |
| What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? Combining scenes of rousing fantasy with hilarious reality, this swashbuckling fable is guaranteed to entertain. | |
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THE PRINCESS DIARIES Meg Cabot Fiction ISBN-10: 0380814021 ISBN-13: 9780380814022 |
| Mia is just a New York City girl living with her artist mom. News Flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo meets her at the airport!) Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.) Shock of the Century: Like it or not, Mia Thermopolis is prime princess material. | |
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PROM Laurie Halse Anderson Fiction ISBN-10: 0142405701 ISBN-13: 9780142405703 |
| High school senior Ashley Hannigan seems to be the only one in her urban Philadelphia high school who doesn't care about prom. But when the faculty advisor gets busted for taking the prom money, Ashley suddenly finds herself with the huge responsibility of putting together a gala dance on an extremely low budget. | |
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THE RAG AND BONE SHOP Robert Cormier Mystery ISBN-10: 0440229715 ISBN-13: 9780440229711 |
| Taking its name from a line in a W.B. Yeats poem, THE RAG AND BONE SHOP is a suspense tale that explores the lengths to which a person will go to get what he wants. | |
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN Lorraine Hansberry Plays ISBN-10: 0679755330 ISBN-13: 9780679755333 |
| When it was first produced in 1959, A RAISIN IN THE SUN was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. | |
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READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN Azar Nafisi Memoir ISBN-10: 081297106X ISBN-13: 9780812971064 |
| Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. Nafisi's story is an exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature. | |
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REBECCA Daphne du Maurier Horror ISBN-10: 0380778556 ISBN-13: 9780380778553 |
| The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter arrives at an immense estate on the windswept Cornish coast. Here she is drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightens around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter begins her search for the real fate of Rebecca. | |
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REBEL ANGELS Libba Bray Fiction/Literary Suspense ISBN-10: 0385730292 ISBN-13: 9780385730297 |
| In this sequel to A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY, Gemma Doyle must save the Realms by binding the magic before the wrong people gain control of it. Once again, she faces danger and mystery while learning about love, trust, and the perils of Victorian London's high society. | |
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THE RED TENT Anita Diamant Fiction/Religion & Spirituality ISBN-10: 0312195516 ISBN-13: 9780312195519 |
| THE RED TENT tells the little-known Biblical story of Dinah, daughter of the patriarch Jacob and his wife, Leah. In Chapter 34 of the Book of Genesis, Dinah's tale is a short, horrific detour in the familiar narrative of Jacob and Joseph. In the Biblical story Dinah is given no voice; she is the narrator of this imaginative novel, which reveals the life of ancient womanhood --- the world of the red tent. | |
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THE REST OF HER LIFE Laura Moriarty Fiction ISBN-10: 1401309437 ISBN-13: 9781401309435 |
| Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy --- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. | |
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ROCKET BOYS/OCTOBER SKY Homer Hickam Memoir ISBN-10: 0440235502 ISBN-13: 9780440235507 |
| This is the true story that inspired the feature film October Sky. It was 1957, and the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. He fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive. | |
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ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY Mildred D. Taylor Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0142401129 ISBN-13: 9780142401125 |
| ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is the story of African American Cassie Logan and her family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. | |
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THE ROPE WALK Carrie Brown Fiction ISBN-10: 0375424636 ISBN-13: 9780375424632 |
| Ten-year-old Alice MacCauley and her playmate, Theo Swann, are the heroes of this frank and tender portrayal of two children coming of age in the course of a Vermont summer. Veteran literary novelist Carrie Brown brings her considerable gifts to bear in creating this affecting tale. | |
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ROSEMARY'S BABY Ira Levin Horror ISBN-10: 0451194004 ISBN-13: 9780451194008 |
| The young couple. The new neighbors. The suicide. The amulet. The doctor. The herbs. The anagram. The baby. Rosemary's Baby. In 1967, when ROSEMARY'S BABY was first published, Ira Levin's masterpiece gave horror an innocent new face. It caused a worldwide sensation, found fear where we never thought to look before, and dared to bring it into the sunlight. | |
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THE RUBY IN THE SMOKE Philip Pullman Thriller ISBN-10: 0394895894 ISBN-13: 9780394895895 |
| In search of clues to the mystery of her father's death, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries --- and realizes that she herself is the key to both. | |
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THE RULE OF FOUR Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Suspense ISBN-10: 0440241359 ISBN-13: 9780440241355 |
| An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF FOUR -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. | |
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RUNEMARKS Joanne Harris Fiction ISBN-10: 0375844449 ISBN-13: 9780375844447 |
| Five-hundred years after the End of the World, old One-Eye returns from World's End to visit Maddy, an outcast girl from the village of Malbry. Shunned by her town because of the runemark on her palm and her magical abilities, she'll do anything he wants if it gives her a place to be her true self --- even if it leads to goblins, Faëries, dangerous forgotten gods, the Sleepers, oracles, Chaos and magic. | |
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RUNNING WITH SCISSORS Augusten Burroughs Memoir ISBN-10: 0312425414 ISBN-13: 9780312425418 |
| RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. Augusten Burroughs offers a funny and harrowing account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. |
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SABRIEL Garth Nix Fantasy ISBN-10: 0061474355 ISBN-13: 9780061474354 |
| Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Charter-Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life --- and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. | |
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SARAH Marek Halter Fiction/Religion & Spirituality ISBN-10: 1400052785 ISBN-13: 9781400052783 |
| SARAH is the first novel in a trilogy about the women of the Old Testament. From the great ziggurat of Ishtar and the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, the story of Sarah reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue and miracles. | |
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SAVING FRANCESCA Melina Marchetta Fiction ISBN-10: 0375829822 ISBN-13: 9780375829826 |
| Francesca Spinelli attends a former boys-only school that recently opened its doors to females, and none of her friends from her old school are going there. And then Francesca finds herself dealing with her problems without guidance from her once vivacious mother, who is battling acute depression. What will happen to Francesca and her family? | |
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THE SECRET BETWEEN US Barbara Delinsky Fiction ISBN-10: 0385518684 ISBN-13: 9780385518680 |
| Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter. | |
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THE SECRET HISTORY Donna Tartt Thriller ISBN-10: 0449911519 ISBN-13: 9780449911518 |
| Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another --- a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning.... | |
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THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Sue Monk Kidd Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0142001740 ISBN-13: 9780142001745 |
| Set in South Carolina in 1964, THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina --- a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. | |
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THE SECRET LIFE OF SPARROW DELANEY Suzanne Harper Fiction ISBN-10: 0061131601 ISBN-13: 9780061131608 |
| This magical story is about being true to who you are, accepting the gifts you have been given and using them as best you can. A novel about psychics, mediums, spiritualists, ghosts, oddball families and teenage romance, author Suzanne Harper has a gift of her own: the ability to write a wonderful work of fiction. | |
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SENIORITIS Tate Thompson Fiction ISBN-10: 094386447X ISBN-13: 9780943864471 |
| A group of high school teenagers have to attend a 3-5 PM program to make up credits, or to correct inappropriate behavior before they can graduate. And a very compassionate mentor encourages them to correct their failings as they vent their anger against teachers in their journals. | |
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A SEPARATE PEACE John Knowles Fiction ISBN-10: 0743253973 ISBN-13: 9780743253970 |
| Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A SEPARATE PEACE is a harrowing parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. | |
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SHADOW DIVERS Robert Kurson Nonfiction/Adventure ISBN-10: 0375760989 ISBN-13: 9780375760983 |
| In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's INTO THIN AIR and Sebastian Junger's THE PERFECT STORM comes this true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery --- and make history themselves. | |
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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND Carlos Ruiz Zafon Fiction ISBN-10: 0143034901 ISBN-13: 9780143034902 |
| Barcelona, 1945 --- A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. But he soon realizes that this book is as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget --- for the mystery of its author's identity holds the key to a secret that someone will go to any lengths to protect. | |
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SIGN OF THE RAVEN Julie Hearn Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0689857349 ISBN-13: 9780689857348 |
| Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds. Fast paced and vivid, SIGN OF THE RAVEN is a mystery, a time-travel fantasy, and a historical novel with modern-day appeal. | |
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THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS Ann Brashares Fiction ISBN-10: 0385730586 ISBN-13: 9780385730587 |
| During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures. They decide to form a sisterhood and share the jeans. The journey of the traveling pants --- and the most memorable summer of their lives --- is about to begin. | |
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SKELLIG David Almond Fiction/Religion & Spirituality ISBN-10: 0440416027 ISBN-13: 9780440416029 |
| Ten-year-old Michael's baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he discovers a human being --- or a strange kind of beast --- in the garage. Together Michael and his new friend Mina carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. | |
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THE SLEDDING HILL Chris Crutcher Fiction ISBN-10: 0060502436 ISBN-13: 9780060502430 |
| Eddie Proffit must cope with the unexpected deaths of his father and his best friend, while having to face the possibility of one of his favorite books being removed from his school. But Billy Bartholomew, his friend, doesn't disappear completely. He comes back to speak with Eddie and to help him find his way again. | |
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SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS David Guterson Thriller ISBN-10: 067976402X ISBN-13: 9780679764021 |
| San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. And in the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt or innocence. | |
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SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN Lisa See Fiction ISBN-10: 0812968069 ISBN-13: 9780812968064 |
| In nineteenth-century China, seven-year-old Lily is paired with a laotong, "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. They communicate in a secret written language, and together they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood --- until a misunderstanding arises and threatens to tear apart. | |
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SNOW IN AUGUST Pete Hamill Fiction/Religion & Spirituality ISBN-10: 0446675253 ISBN-13: 9780446675253X |
| It is a unique and unusual friendship: 11 year-old Michael Devlin, an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn, and Judah Hirsch, a rabbi and refugee from Prague, who meet during a blizzard. In baseball, the two find a common love, but when anti-Semitic hoods threaten them with violence, the two must look for a miracle in a most unlikely place. | |
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SO B. IT Sarah Weeks Fiction ISBN-10: 0064410471 ISBN-13: 9780064410472 |
| Everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey to uncover the truth. Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn't until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives. | |
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SOMEONE LIKE SUMMER M. E. Kerr Fiction ISBN-10: 0061140996 ISBN-13: 9780061140990 |
| Veteran young adult writer M. E. Kerr tells the story of one turbulent, emotionally intense summer in the life of a young woman. Race, politics and current events mix with first love in this provocative story that is bound to elicit discussion. | |
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SOMEONE LIKE YOU Sarah Dessen Fiction ISBN-10: 0142401773 ISBN-13: 9780142401774 |
| Halley has always followed in the wake of her best friend, Scarlett. But when Scarlett learns that her boyfriend has been killed in a motorcycle accident, and that she's carrying his baby, she's devastated. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Though their friendship may be tested by the strain, like a true friendship, it will endure. | |
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SOPHIE'S WORLD Jostein Gaarder Fiction ISBN-10: 0425152251 ISBN-13: 9780425152256 |
| One day Sophie finds two questions in her mail --- Who are you? and Where does the world come from? --- prompting her to enroll in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. When she begins receiving unusual letters from someone she doesn't know, Sophie must make use of the philosophy she is learning to unravel the riddle. But the truth is far more complicated than she could have imagined. | |
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THE SPACE BETWEEN US Thrity Umrigar Fiction ISBN-10: 0060791551 ISBN-13: 9780060791551 |
| In this richly textured and engrossing novel, Thrity Umrigar explores the relationship between two women whose connection transcends their place at opposite ends of the social spectrum of modern-day Bombay. Weaving between past and present, Umrigar reveals their shared struggles, their solitary hardships and the secrets that threaten to destroy them both. | |
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SPEAK Laurie Halse Anderson Fiction ISBN-10: 014131088X ISBN-13: 9780141310886 |
| Melinda Sordino, a sharp, witty "everygirl" turns into a social pariah after busting an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. There's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. | |
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SPECIALS Scott Westerfeld Fantasy/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0689865406 ISBN-13: 9780689865404 |
| In this fast-paced last book of Scott Westerfeld's trilogy, Tally has been remade into a special Special called a Cutter, dedicated to defending the city from its enemies. Now she embarks on the most urgent quest of her life: saving Zane while destroying New Smoke. Along the way she absorbs truths about humanity, civilization, and herself. | |
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STARGIRL Jerry Spinelli Romance ISBN-10: 0440416779 ISBN-13: 9780440416777 |
| Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of "Stargirl, Stargirl." She captures Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. And then they turn on her. | |
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THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE David Wroblewski Fiction ISBN-10: 0061374229 ISBN-13: 9780061374227 |
| Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. | |
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SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER Bette Greene Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0142406511 ISBN-13: 9780142406519 |
| Patty Bergen never imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville, Arkansas. To the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in particular becomes an unlikely friend. | |
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THE SWEET FAR THING Libba Bray Fiction/Literary Suspense ISBN-10: 0385730306 ISBN-13: 9780385730303 |
| It's 1896, and Gemma Doyle's time at Spence Academy for Young Ladies is coming to a close in a whirl of parties and balls that will mark her and her classmates' debutante "season." Gemma's story comes full circle with THE SWEET FAR THING, the conclusion to Libba Bray's wildly popular trilogy that melds Victorian conventions with supernatural fantasy. | |
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A SWIFT PURE CRY Siobhan Dowd Fiction ISBN-10: 0385751087 ISBN-13: 9780385751087 |
| Shell Talent's life has been difficult since her Mam died a year earlier. Her father has turned to Scripture and alcohol in an attempt to escape reality and his inner demons. Shell cares for her younger siblings (and doesn't mind doing so), though she's bored of church and school. Things seem to get better when Father Rose comes to Coolbar, but soon Shell finds herself at the center of a scandal that will change her life forever. | |
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SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA Lynne Cox Autobiography ISBN-10: 0156031302 ISBN-13: 9780156031301 |
| This is the joyful, inspirational memoir of swimmer Lynne Cox, who by age sixteen had broken all records for English Channel swims. With a poet's eye for detail, Cox shares the beauty of her time in the water in this new classic of sports memoir --- from being the first to swim the Strait of Magellan to a near miss with a shark off the Cape of Good Hope to the iceberg-choked waters of the Antarctic. | |
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TALLGRASS Sandra Dallas Fiction ISBN-10: 0312360207 ISBN-13: 9780312360207 |
| During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. | |
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TANGERINE Edward Bloor Fiction ISBN-10: 0152057803 ISBN-13: 9780152057800 |
| Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see what others cannot. But no one listens to Paul --- until his family moves to Tangerine, where weird is normal and a new start might help Paul finally see the truth about his past. And give him the courage to face up to his terrifying older brother. | |
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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Zora Neale Hurston Fiction ISBN-10: 0060931418 ISBN-13: 9780060931414 |
| Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person --- no mean feat for a black woman in the 1930s. Zora Neale Hurston's classic 1937 novel follows Janie's quest for identity --- a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life's joys and sorrows, and comes home to herself in peace. | |
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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Tim O'Brien Fiction/Short Stories ISBN-10: 0767902890 ISBN-13: 9780767902892 |
| They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And, if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. THE THINGS THEY CARRIED has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul. | |
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THINGS I WANT MY DAUGHTERS TO KNOW Elizabeth Noble Fiction ISBN-10: 006112219X ISBN-13: 9780061122194 |
| When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when they still have so much growing up to do? By drawing on the wisdom in Barbara's letters, the girls might just find a way to cope with their loss. | |
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THIRSTY M.T. Anderson Horror ISBN-10: 076362750X ISBN-13: 9780763627508 |
| In this savagely funny tale of terror, teen angst, suspense, and satire, all Chris really wants is to be a normal kid. Unfortunately, he appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an ancient ritual that keeps Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampiric fate. He needs help, but whom can he trust? | |
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THIRTEEN REASONS WHY Jay Asher Fiction ISBN-10: 1595141715 ISBN-13: 9781595141712 |
| Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. She explains that there are 13 reasons why she decided to end her life --- and Clay is one of them. | |
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS Khaled Hosseini Fiction ISBN-10: 1594489505 ISBN-13: 9781594489501 |
| Khaled Hosseini's follow-up to the runaway bestseller THE KITE RUNNER is a worthy successor to that absorbing novel. Set against the turbulent and painful backdrop of recent Afghan history, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS is the story of two remarkable women who endure persecution and violence. | |
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A TIME FOR DANCING Davida Wills Hurwin Fiction ISBN-10: 0140386181 ISBN-13: 9780140386189 |
| Samantha and Juliana have been best friends forever. Now, in the summer before senior year, they're ready for anything. College? Professional dance careers? They'll share the triumphs and face the tears together. But neither of them are prepared for what does happen next. Juliana is diagnosed with cancer. And there is no cure. | |
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A TIME TO KILL John Grisham Legal Thriller ISBN-10: 0440211727 ISBN-13: 9780440211723 |
| In this searing courtroom drama, John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town. | |
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THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE Audrey Niffenegger Fiction ISBN-10: 015602943X ISBN-13: 9780156029438 |
| A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap. | |
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TITHE: A Modern Faerie Tale Holly Black Fantasy ISBN-10: 0689867042 ISBN-13: 9780689867040 |
| Kaye travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home in New Jersey. There, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms --- a struggle that could very well mean her death. | |
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Harper Lee Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0060935464 ISBN-13: 9780060935467 |
| One of the best-loved stories of all time, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. | |
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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN Betty Smith Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0060736267 ISBN-13: 9780060736262 |
| Through it is often categorized as a coming-of-age novel, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN is much more than that. Its richly-plotted narrative of three generations in a poor but proud American family offers a detailed and unsentimental portrait of urban life at the beginning of the century. | |
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THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE Avi Fiction ISBN-10: 0380714752 ISBN-13: 9780380714759 |
| As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, 13-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew. | |
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TRUTH & BEAUTY Ann Patchett Memoir ISBN-10: 0060572159 ISBN-13: 9780060572150 |
| In her frank and tender first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett tells of the warm and beautiful friendship she had with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, a remarkable woman who in her all-too brief life faced childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. | |
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom Memoir ISBN-10: 076790592X ISBN-13: 9780767905923 |
| Mitch Albom chronicles the time he spent with Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago, after he rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. | |
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TWILIGHT Stephenie Meyer Horror/Romance ISBN-10: 0316015849 ISBN-13: 9780316015844 |
| Seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan's parents divorced when she was a toddler, and her annual visits to her father, the chief of police in rainy Forks, Washington, have always been more torture than treat. So why does Bella volunteer to relocate to Forks permanently, leaving her mother and stepfather behind in sunny Arizona? It's a decision that soon may bring her love but also endanger her life. | |
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TWISTED Laurie Halse Anderson Fiction ISBN-10: 0670061018 ISBN-13: 9780670061013 |
| As someone who spends his days unnoticed, Tyler Miller finds himself with more attention than he wanted after he vandalizes school property and, to pay for his crime, takes a summer job doing landscaping. The unforeseen side effect is that he returns the next school year with a brand new physique that attracts the attention of Bethany Milbury. This sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in the school, in his family and in the world. | |
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UGLIES Scott Westerfeld Fantasy/Action & Adventure ISBN-10: 0689865384 ISBN-13: 9780689865381 |
| Would you betray a friend in order to gain your lifelong dream? In this futuristic first book in a trilogy, Tally faces that dilemma and plunges into an amazing adventure with a serious issue at the core: How much should anyone sacrifice for beauty? | |
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VOICES Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy ISBN-10: 0152056785 ISBN-13: 9780152056780 |
| A darkly compelling fantasy, the second book in the Annals of the Western Shore series is the story of 17-year-old Memer, who lives in the one peaceful town of Ansul and for whom life is about to change. VOICES is a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic | |
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VOTE FOR LARRY Janet Tashjian Fiction ISBN-10: 014131835X ISBN-13: 9780141318356 |
| In this followup to THE WORLD ACCORDING TO LARRY, Josh Swensen (a.k.a. Larry) finds himself in a hyper-paranoid state of no return. That is, until he's kidnapped and coaxed into resurfacing as his old persona --- so that he can run for political office! | |
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WAIT FOR ME An Na Fiction ISBN-10: 0399242759 ISBN-13: 9780399242755 |
| An Na, unfolds the intriguing story of two sisters, Mina and Suna, who grow up in a Korean household with a demanding mother, a quiet father, and expectations that are nearly impossible to meet. | |
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A WALK TO REMEMBER Nicholas Sparks Fiction ISBN-10: 0446608955 ISBN-13: 9780446608954 |
| With plot twists and turns and an untold secret that will change their lives forever, high school students Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan fall in love in a coastal North Carolina town in 1958. Pain and sorrow lie ahead for the pair, but the story lets you believe in the power of love and that dreams do come true. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. | |
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Sara Gruen Fiction ISBN-10: 1565124995 ISBN-13: 9781565124998 |
| Sara Gruen weaves an evocative and compelling tale of the frenzied, lawless and cruelly beautiful world of the Depression-era traveling circus. From the striking first scene to the unexpected ending, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS will have readers mesmerized. | |
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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN Lionel Shriver Fiction ISBN-10: 006112429X ISBN-13: 9780061124297 |
| Eva never really wanted to be a mother --- and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage. | |
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WEETZIE BAT Francesca Lia Block Fiction ISBN-10: 0060736259 ISBN-13: 9780060736255 |
| Weetzie Bat lived in a fairy-tale land of glitter and glitz. She had a bleached-blonde flat-top and pink sunglasses, and cruised around town with her best friend Dirk and her Slinkster Dog pooch in a '55 Pontiac named Jerry. Weetzie loved L.A., but still, something was missing. So Weetzie made three wishes, and they all came true... | |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS McBRIDE? Gail Giles Psychological Thriller ISBN-10: 0316166391 ISBN-13: 9780316166393 |
| Claustrophobics, beware --- Gail Giles's latest novel might be too much for you to handle. In WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS McBRIDE? suicide, kidnapping and family histories collide in an intensely suspenseful, fast-paced and at times disturbing psychological thriller. | |
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WHAT I WAS Meg Rosoff Fiction ISBN-10: 0670018449 ISBN-13: 9780670018444 |
| Crossing over to adult fiction, celebrated young adult author Meg Rosoff still focuses on young people --- viewed through the lens of an old, world-weary narrator --- in WHAT I WAS, a most unusual coming-of-age novel about friendship and humanity. | |
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WHEN CRICKETS CRY Charles Martin Fiction/Religion & Spirituality ISBN-10: 1595540547 ISBN-13: 9781595540546 |
| In a small town square of a sleepy Georgia town, a spirited 7-year-old sits at her lemonade stand, raising money for her own heart transplant. As a beat-up bread truck careens around the corner, a strong wind blows Annie's money into the road. A bearded stranger looks up in time to see Annie's yellow dress fluttering in the wind as she runs into the road. What happens next will change both of their lives forever. | |
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WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN Kimberly Willis Holt Fiction ISBN-10: 0440238412 ISBN-13: 9780440238416 |
| 643-pound Zachary Beaver, the fattest boy in the world, comes to town and changes the lives of everyone in Antler, Texas, in the summer of 1971 –-- especially that of 13-year-old Toby Wilson, whose life up until now had appeared rather ordinary. | |
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WHITE GHOST GIRLS Alice Greenway Fiction ISBN-10: 0802170188 ISBN-13: 9780802170187 |
| During the steamy summer of 1967 Hong Kong, American teenage sisters Kate and Frankie's devastating personal drama plays out against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The suspense builds almost unbearably in this dreamlike novel written in a graceful and lyrical voice. | |
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WHITE OLEANDER Janet Fitch Fiction ISBN-10: 0316284955 ISBN-13: 9780316284950 |
| WHITE OLEANDER tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes --- each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned --- becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery. | |
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THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH Robert Hicks Historical Fiction ISBN-10: 0446697435 ISBN-13: 9780446697439 |
| Based on a true story, this novel flashes back to 1864 and the Civil War's Battle of Franklin. While the fierce fighting rages on Carrie's land, her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital. When a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house, he awakens feelings she had thought long dead --- and inspires a passion as powerful and unforgettable as the war that consumes a nation. | |
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THE WILL OF THE EMPRESS Tamora Pierce Fantasy ISBN-10: 0439441722 ISBN-13: 9780439441728 |
| This fantasy novel from Tamora Pierce marks the return of the four mages who appeared in The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens quartets. Together, they will try to outsmart and outlast the Empress of Namron, who has set a cunning trap to keep them in her brutal empire forever. | |
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WISH YOU WELL David Baldacci Fiction ISBN-10: 0446610100 ISBN-13: 9780446610100 |
| When tragedy strikes, precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal and her younger brother, Oz, leave the hectic New York City of 1940 to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures that are tragic, comic, and audacious. | |
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A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy ISBN-10: 0553262505 ISBN-13: 9780553262506 |
| Ged is the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. | |
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A WRINKLE IN TIME Madelene L'Engle Fantasy ISBN-10: 0440498058 ISBN-13: 9780440498056 |
| In this beloved children's tale, an unearthly stranger appears at young Meg Murray's home. He claims to have been blown off course and that there is such a thing as a "wrinkle in time." Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father? | |
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A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER Michael Dorris Fiction ISBN-10: 0312421850 ISBN-13: 9780312421854 |
| This saga is the story of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona; her American Indian mother, Christine; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past. | |
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YOU, MAYBE Rachel Vail Fiction ISBN-10: 0060569174 ISBN-13: 9780060569174 |
| Josie is independent, fierce, and doesn't care what anyone thinks about her, especially where guys are concerned. She may flirt with them, and even kiss them, but it doesn't mean anything. So who can explain what happens when Carson Gold, the hottest senior, decides he's interested in her? | |
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