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1. A day so gray

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Author:
Lamba, Marie
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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1 stars
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"A winter's day is transformed from bleak to beautiful by warm friendship and a new perspective in a gentle story that encourages the appreciation and celebration of cozy pleasures and quiet joys"--

2. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Vintage classics
Marvel illustrated
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and becomes strongly infatuated with him, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that...

3. I survived the shark attacks of 1916

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 2
Language:
English
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A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916,with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Haus Studio! Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from...

4. Ramona the pest

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Author:
Cleary, Beverly
Series:
Ramona Quimby novel volume 2
Ramona Quimby volume 2
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.

5. The time machine

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Gollancz 50 collection
SF masterworks
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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In this hugely influential groundbreaking work of science fiction, a brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The Time Traveller finds imself in a verdant, seemingly idyllic landscape where he is greeted by the diminutive Eloi people. The Eloi are beautiful but weak and indolent, and the explorer is perplexed by their fear of the dark. He soon discovers the reason for their fear--the...

6. A color of his own

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Author:
Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 490L
Language:
English
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A little chameleon is distressed that he doesn't have his own color like other animals. Guided reading level : I

7. One upside-downy day

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Author:
Kurilla, Renée
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"Follow a diverse cast of young children as they experience big feelings--anger, shyness, and sadness--in this patient, rhyming picture book. One Upside-Downy Day is a love letter to emotional understanding and the sometimes-gray days of being a toddler."--Amazon.

8. Mother may I: a novel

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Author:
Jackson, Joshilyn
Language:
English
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"Revenge doesn't wait for permission. Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected that fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of. Until the day she awakens and sees someone peering into her bedroom window--an old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes...

9. Disturbing the dead

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Author:
Armstrong, Kelley
Series:
Rip through time novel volume 3
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...

10. The extinction of Irena Rey: a novel

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Author:
Croft, Jennifer (Translator)
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language:
English
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From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...

11. On the come up

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Author:
Thomas, Angie
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 550L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...

12. The importance of being earnest

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Dover thrift editions
HighBridge classics
Cambridge literature
Theatre classics for the modern reader
Language:
English
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Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a timeless comedic masterpiece that combines witty satire, social commentary, and farcical humor in a delightful theatrical concoction. Set in the elegant drawing rooms of Victorian-era London, the play revolves around the hilarious deceptions of its characters, particularly Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing. These dashing young men each maintain a fictitious persona-Algernon has invented a friend...

13. Summer

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Author:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Series:
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Language:
English
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First published in 1917, "Summer" is one of only two novels by Edith Wharton not set in the upper-class society of New York. It is instead set in New England and was very controversial at the time it was published as it is the story of the sexual awakening of a young woman, named Charity Royall. Charity, the daughter of mountain moonshiners, was abandoned by her poor parents and adopted by her small town's most learned person, Lawyer Royall. Charity...

14. The curious case of Benjamin Button and other stories

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Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Series:
Tales of the Jazz Age volume 6
Language:
English
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In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.

15. The man in the gray flannel suit

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Author:
Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003
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English
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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" captured the mood of a generation. Its title, like "Catch-22" and "Fahrenheit 451", has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network....

16. Hush hush

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Author:
Lippman, Laura, 1959-
Series:
Tess Monaghan mystery volume 12
Tess Monaghan novel volume 12
Tess Monaghan volume 11
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned to Baltimore...

17. The circular staircase

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Author:
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958
Series:
Dover mystery classics
Unabridged classics
Mystery library volume 3
Language:
English
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"This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture...

18. Caspian finds a friend

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Author:
Véissid, Jacqueline
Publisher:
Chronicle Books LLC
Language:
English
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Caspian lives in a lighthouse surrounded by a cold gray-blue sea-every day, he watches, wishing for a friend, but no one comes. So, Caspian decides that wishing is not enough. What follows is a friendship story between a boy and a bear that is tender, warm, and perfect for gift-giving. --

19. Baree, Son of Kazan

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Author:
Curwood, James Oliver
Series:
Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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To Baree, for many days after he was born, the world was a vast gloomy cavern. During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan's eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from...

20. Rebel Spurs

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Author:
Norton, Andre
Series:
Rebel volume 2
Language:
English
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After suffering defeat in the Civil War, a young man struggles to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw and unsettled land. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived, leaving everything he owned behind, he knew his business would not be questioned....
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