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1. We're not from here

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Rodkey, Geoff, 1970-
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After a year on Mars, a young boy and his family migrate to the planet Choom, but the inhabitants of Choom, the Zhuri, who look like giant mosquitoes, don't really like humans and it up to the boy and his family to change their minds if they hope to survive.

2. Does Anyone Know Why We're Here? Answers From Ecclesiastes

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Author:
Johnston, Brian
Publisher:
Hayes Press
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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The consideration of whether it could be true that everything is meaningless isn't one we'd expect to find arising from within a biblical worldview, where God is accepted as existing and giving meaning and purpose to human existence. But the curious thing - at least at first sight - is that an entire book in the Bible is devoted to exploring whether or not everything is meaningless. Why should this be the case? Bible teacher and broadcaster Brian...

3. What a Re-Imagined Society Looks Like (And How We Can Get There From Here)

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Author:
Sisk, Chet W.
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2021
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What a Re-imagined Society Looks Like (and how we can get there, from here) is a book describing a different kind of society based on new ideas, current tech tools and a vision of abundance. The author of the book, Chet W. Sisk, is a Futurist, who has spent years following trends, and how those trends affect societies and people. Here, he lists 11 things we can do, right now, to arrive at a better future than the path we're on now. This book is based...

4. They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years

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Author:
Barkai, Ron
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
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This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we can date to different periods-but they are not the heart of the matter. This book is about us, human beings, and about our place in the world. About what we have done, where we came from, which other humans used to be here, why they are no longer with us, and how and why our lives have changed. It's also...

5. Wushu were here

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Author:
Scieszka, Jon
Series:
Time warp trio volume 3
Publisher:
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date:
2007
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English
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Joe, Fred, and Sam travel back in time to ancient China and help defeat the awful ruler Wang.

6. Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes-from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

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Author:
Simon, Leslie
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
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English
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"This book was really fun to read and I actually learned a lot. Wait a Does giving a quote for this book mean people will know that I didn't actually already know this stuff? Lame." - Hayley Williams, Paramore "Wish You Were Here knows way too much about the history, minute details, and inner-workings of these 11 punk and indie scenes. I don't know how Leslie figured out all this stuff, but I'm changing my locks and checking the phone for bugs." -...

7. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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Works of Mark Twain volume 8
Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...

8. Here one moment: a novel

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Moriarty, Liane
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"A woman stands up on a plane, and predicts when everyone will die. Everyone laughs it off until it starts to come true"--

9. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
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Dover large print classics
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
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1090L
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English
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...

10. The tell: a memoir

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Griffin, Amy (Businesswoman)
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"For decades, Amy ran. Through the dirt roads of Amarillo, Texas, where she grew up; to the campus of the University of Virginia, as a student athlete; on the streets of New York, where she built her adult life; through marriage, motherhood, and a thriving career. To outsiders, it all looked, in many ways, perfect. But Amy was running from something--a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends, but unconsciously from herself. "You're...

11. Summers at the Saint

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Author:
Andrews, Mary Kay, 1954-
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Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama
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English
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"Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer...

12. A game of thrones

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Author:
Martin, George R. R.
Series:
Song of ice and fire volume 1
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English
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A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation." Treachery, murder, incest. "Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister...

13. The prince

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Author:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
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Unabridged classics
Rethinking the Western tradition
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Lexile measure:
1450L
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English
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THE PRINCE (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before...

14. Wild dark shore: a novel

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McConaghy, Charlotte
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Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, 18 and suffering his first heartbreak, can...

15. The purpose-driven life: what on earth am I here for?

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Author:
Warren, Rick, 1954-
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Zondervan
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Translated into over 50 languages, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book; it is a guide to a spiritual journey that has transformed millions of lives. Once you take this journey, you'll never be the same again. This new, expanded edition of The Purpose Driven Life, created for a new generation of reader, includes: Video introductions by Rick Warren to chapters 1-42 and an audio Bible study at the end of each chapter, with over 30 additional...

16. Captains Courageous

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Author:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
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Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
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1020L
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English
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The son of a millionaire is swept overboard and rescued by a small fishing boat where he must work to earn his keep and learns about a way of life where money cannot buy everything and a man's worth lies in who he is, not what he owns.

17. A tale of two cities

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Dover large print classics
Greenwich House classics library
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870L
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English
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When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Lucie struggles desperately to restore the health of a father driven mad by years of...

18. By any other name: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...

19. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
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Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
880L
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English
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

20. Nine perfect strangers

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Moriarty, Liane
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they cant even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
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