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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
2) Nightwork
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When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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John Matherson volume 2
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"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
8) Jumanji
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Judy and Peter find a game marked "Jumanji: A Jungle Adventure Game, free game, fun for some but not for all," strange and extraordinary things begin to happen to them
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2021]
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Instagram superstar and New York Times bestselling author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes Eva Chen embarks on an all-new audiobook venture of jurassic proportions.
Dinosaurs are awesome. Unicorns are, too. So what happens when you combine the best parts of each?
Roxy the Unisaurus Rex!
Join Roxy in all her steak-loving, glittery-horn-having, sparkly-tutu-wearing fun as she-with the help of a new friend-learns all about self-expression and...
10) 22 seconds
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Women's murder club volume 22
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"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
11) The kite runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.
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Two dogs in a trench coat volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Sassy and Waldo love school!
They get to wear a trench coat and everyone thinks they're a new student named Salty.
Except Stewart. He knows the truth.
But then Stewart has to stay after school for a club.
Sassy and Waldo know that a club is a sandwich. But it's not that kind of club.
Sassy and Waldo go to the best place to wait for Stewart in the empty school: the cafeteria! Snacks! Running! Places to nap!
Their classmates find out...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Meet Monkey and Cake.
They are silly and they are curious.
Sometimes they agree. Sometimes they do not.
But they are always best friends.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors, Drew Daywalt, and illustrator Olivier Tallec, comes a fresh new duo Monkey and Cake. In this book, Monkey and Cake cannot agree what's inside Monkey's mysterious box. Is it a kitty? Is it a dinosaur?...
14) The quiet boy
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2021.
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A sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time, the team of lawyers, doctors, and detectives who are desperate to wake him up, and--more than a decade later--the trial of the teenager's father for murder.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again....
16) The paperboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
17) The dark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Laszlo is afraid of the dark which lives in the same big, creaky house as him, until one night the dark pays him a visit.