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Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
A young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake... Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for... more
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Armada by Ernest Cline
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum... more
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The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
Children forced to grow up too soon after families are torn asunder by a ferocious storm... The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to... more
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Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby—the Amendola family’s youngest... more
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The Winners (Beartown, Bk 3) by Fredrik Backman & Neil Smith (Translator)
Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change... Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the... more
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The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
Ryan Adler and his twin sister, Jane, spent their happiest childhood days at their parents? mountain Colorado cabin?until divorce tore their family apart. Now, with the house about to be sold, the Adler twins gather with their closest friends for one last snowboarding-filled holiday. While... more
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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
First published in 1971, GO ASK ALICE was presented as the diary of a real teenaged girl whose descent into drug addition ushered her into a dark world of debauchery, abuse, and prostitution that eventually led to her death. Riding on the coattails of the 1960s, this provocative recipe of peer... more
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Emma (dramatization) by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's engaging and infuriating heroine sparkles in the superb full-cast dramatization! Angharad Rees brings to life the beautiful, wealthy Emma Woodhouse, who finds she has a knack for matchmaking, despite swearing off love for herself. Presented dramatized by a full cast on 5 CDs.
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Animal Lessons: Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with Animals by Danielle MacKin...
Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person using Animal Lessons. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus?if you pay attention. They want to guide you toward the next step in your personal evolution,... more
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The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: "Protect her." Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child.... more
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This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
A tale about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair. "Ask me, God's right here.
In the dirt, the rain, the sky,... more
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Among Others by Jo Walton
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient... more
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Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, Bk 1) by Colin Meloy & Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find... more
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Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award?winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was... more
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Vox by Christina Dalcher
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in... more
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Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from ...
An extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler -- the "female Oskar Schindler" -- who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to... more
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Oscar winner Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts.
The perennially bestselling, ?nothing short of spectacular? (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world?s most gifted storytellers.
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of... more
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Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" by Anthony Minghella & Anthony Minghella
Jim Henson's The Storyteller is a book to enchant readers of all ages--inspired by the beloved guiding genius of Muppetdom and a whole world of creatures we have taken into our hearts. These nine delightfully illustrated stories, based on Henson's Emmy Award-winning television series, are fairy... more
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The Therapist by B. A. Paris
When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they’ve dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive…
As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly secret about her new... more
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Teddy & Co. by Cynthia Voigt
Fans of classic toy stories like Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, and Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins will love this illustrated novel by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt.
Winner of a Parents Choice Silver Honor Award
Teddy is a thinking... more
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Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
Daughters of the Witching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt.Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman.... more
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Fredrik Ba...
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy: as in "standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers" crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the... more
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The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin
In this warmhearted middle-grade novel, Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini), but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet's office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred the story of Zook's previous lives,... more
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UR (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Stephen King & Holter Graham (Narrator)
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse... more
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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice's surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over -- she's getting... more
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization by Jim Henson & A.C.H. Smith
Return to the Kingdom of Whence in this sprawling prequel to Jim Henson?s classic film Labyrinth.
Years before Sarah entered the Labyrinth, a young boy named Jareth faced his own incredible journey in a desperate attempt to rescue his true love from the clutches of the wicked and beautiful... more