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1. A year with the seals: unlocking the secrets of the sea's most charismatic and controversial creatures

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Author:
Morris, Alexandra
Publisher:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems,...

2. The operator: firing the shots that killed Osama bin Laden and my years as a SEAL team warrior

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Author:
O'Neill, Robert, 1976-
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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"A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In these pages,...

3. In five years: a novel

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Author:
Serle, Rebecca
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English
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"A striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever"-- "When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track...

4. The seven year slip

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Author:
Poston, Ashley
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"An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate ... only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics. Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent...

5. One hundred years of solitude

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Author:
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
Series:
Everyman's library volume 223
Harper Perennial modern classics
Oprah's Book Club
G.K. Hall large print book
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1410L
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English
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2.6 stars
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Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.

6. Six years

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Author:
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...

7. The year of magical thinking

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Didion, Joan
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers and the author of Notes to John, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
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8. 12 years a slave

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The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his...

9. How to seal your own fate: a novel

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Author:
Perrin, Kristen
Series:
Castle Knoll muder mystery volume 2
Castle Knoll murder mystery volume 2
Castle Knoll Files
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English
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"Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane crosses her path and shares a cryptic message. When Peony Lane is found dead only hours later inside the locked Gravesdown Estate, Annie quickly realizes that someone is out to make her look guilty while silencing Peony at the same time. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of Castle Knoll in order to find out just what Peony...

10. Sammy, the seal

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Author:
Hoff, Syd, 1912-2004
Series:
I Can Read Book An
I can read picture book
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380L
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English
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4.5 stars
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Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.

11. Year of wonders: a novel of the plague

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
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1080L
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English
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Young Anna Frith, a vicar's maid, is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and a passionate, illicit love as she and her village confront the horrors of the plague, in a historical novel based on real-life events in seventeenth-century England. A first novel. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine...

12. The year of the seal

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Author:
Scheffer, Victor B.
Publisher:
Scribner
Pub. Date:
[1970]
Language:
English
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13. Twelve years a slave

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Author:
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
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B and N signature editions
African American
American Classics Children's Collection
Library of Southern civilization
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 790L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...

14. A journal of the plague year

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Author:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Penguin classics
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English
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5 stars
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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and...

15. Same beach, next year

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Author:
Frank, Dorothea Benton
Series:
Lowcountry Tales volume 12
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English
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One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their...

16. The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot: a novel

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Cronin, Marianne
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English
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"Life is short - no one knows that better than seventeen year-old Lenni Petterssen. On the Terminal Ward, the nurses are offering their condolences already, but Lenni still has plenty of living to do. When she meets 83-year-old Margot Macrae, a fellow patient offering new friendship and enviable artistic skills, Lenni's life begins to soar in ways she'd never imagined. As their bond deepens, a world of stories opens up: of wartime love and loss, of...

17. The year of the dog

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Author:
Lin, Grace
Series:
A Pacy Lin Novel
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690L
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English
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It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.

18. The year of pleasures: a novel

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Author:
Berg, Elizabeth
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Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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English
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Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love....

19. The first four years

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Author:
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957
Series:
Little house books volume 9
Little house volume 9
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1030L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"Laura and Almanzo have married and begun their new life together. They must face storms, sickness, and provide for their new baby, Rose. Their pioneer lives have trained them well, however, and they are determined to succeed"--P. [4] of cover.

20. Year one

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
Series:
Chronicles of the One volume 1
Language:
English
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"It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the...
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