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1. Almost American girl: an illustrated memoir

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Author:
Ha, Robin
Publisher:
Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...

2. Almost American Girl

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Author:
Ha, Robin
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life-perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...

3. My Antonia

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Author:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Everyman paperback
Great Plains Trilogy volume 3
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. After the death of her immigrant father, Antonia works as a servant for neighbors in the farmlands of Nebraska. She leaves for an unfortunate affair with an Irish railway conductor, but returns home, eventually marries and raises a large family in true pioneer style.

4. The secret garden

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Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Series:
Chartwell classics
Courage classics
Commuters library
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...

5. Their eyes were watching God: a novel

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Author:
Hurston, Zora Neale
Series:
Harper Perennial modern classics
G.K. Hall large print perennial bestseller collection
Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....

6. Beloved

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Author:
Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019
Series:
Everyman's library volume 268
Vintage International
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...

7. Uncle Tom's cabin

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Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Series:
Oxford world's classics volume 23
Dover thrift editions
Enriched classics
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Lexile measure:
1050L
Language:
English
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Uncle Toms Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us, in scenes of great dramatic power, the human effects of a system in which slaves were property. When a Kentucky farmer falls on hard times he is forced to sell all his slaves, and among them is Uncle Tom, who's bought by a brutal plantation owner. The novel describes the horror of...

8. The hunchback of Notre-Dame

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Author:
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Series:
Timeless Classics
Hunchback of Notre-Dame volume 5
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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"The hidden force of fate is symbolized by the superhuman grandeur and multitudinous imageries of the cathedral. 'The first part ... is a panorama of medieval life--religious, civic, popular, and criminal--drawn with immense learning and an amazing command of spectacular effect. These elements are then set into motion in a fantastic and grandiose drama, of which the personages are romantic sublimations of human virtues and passions--Quasimodo the...

9. Always the last to know

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Author:
Higgins, Kristan
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English
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"Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means. Barb and John Frost are testy and bored with each other after fifty years of marriage. At least they have their daughters- Barb's favorite, Juliet; and John's darling, Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at...

10. The mystery of the Blue Train: a Hercule Poirot mystery

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Author:
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Series:
Hercule Poirot volume 6
Agatha Christie mystery collection
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
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Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress -- bailing out of a doomed marriage -- is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man loitering in the victim's shadow is all Poirot...

11. Lady in the lake: a novel

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Author:
Lippman, Laura, 1959-
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know--everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This...

12. Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker: a novel

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Author:
Chiaverini, Jennifer
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.

13. Uptown girl: a memoir

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Author:
Brinkley, Christie
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"In 1974, twenty-year-old Christie Brinkley was "discovered" outside a Paris phone booth, launching a meteoric modeling career that landed her on the covers of hundreds of magazines and cemented her legacy as an iconic supermodel. Although she's lived more than fifty years in the public eye, the full story of her roller-coaster life has never been told."--Dust flap.

14. Flappers and philosophers

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Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Language:
English
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea-if you gazed intently, enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. About...

15. The plague of doves

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Author:
Erdrich, Louise
Lexile measure:
960L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves-the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose-is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a...

16. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

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Author:
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

17. Bright young women

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Author:
Knoll, Jessica
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"The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer--and that he's struck again. Determined to find justice,...

18. The best of me

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Author:
Sedaris, David
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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"For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to read without laughing. Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work....

19. The wonder of Charlie Anne

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Author:
Fusco, Kimberly Newton
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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In a 1930s Massachusetts farm town torn by the Depression, racial tension, and other hardships, Charlie Anne and her black next-door neighbor Phoebe form a friendship that begins to transform their community.

20. Wildfire

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Author:
Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Series:
Sagebrush western
Gunsmoke westerns
Language:
English
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The story of a legendary horse who could run like the wind, but also hurt those who love him the most.
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