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1. All we have left

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Author:
Mills, Wendy, 1973-
Language:
English
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5 stars
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In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.

2. Before we were yours: a novel

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Author:
Wingate, Lisa
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...

3. The Dutch house: a novel

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
Language:
English
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4.1 stars
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"Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. "'Do you think it's possible to ever see the past as it actually was?' I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight...

4. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Signature classics
Dover Thrift Editions
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
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Lexile measure:
1090L
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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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...

5. There there: a novel

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Author:
Orange, Tommy, 1982-
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces abrilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...

6. The wind in the willows

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Author:
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
Series:
Great classics for children
Junior classics for young readers
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Lexile measure:
1140L
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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When the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and heads into the open air, he embarks on a series of exhilarating adventures with his friends: the laid-back Ratty, the gruff yet kindly Badger and the self-satisfied, irrepressible Mr. Toad. The implusive Toad leads the friends from one escapade to the next, from upturned gypsy caravans to stolen motorcars, a daring prison escape and, finally, to a heroic confrontation with the sinister inhabitants of the...

7. The housemaid is watching

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
Series:
Housemaid volume 3
Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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4 stars
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""You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I'll do anything to keep it that way... I used to clean other people's houses - now, I can't believe this home is actually mine. The charming...

8. Sense and sensibility

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Dover Thrift Editions
Canterbury classics
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Lexile measure:
1180L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centered fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, while Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her...

9. The family remains: a novel

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Author:
Jewell, Lisa
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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3.8 stars
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Sequel to: The Family Upstairs. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold...

10. The book of two ways: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
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3.8 stars
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Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...

11. One Italian summer: a novel

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Author:
Serle, Rebecca
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hard to put down" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the...

12. The sun also rises

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Author:
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Series:
Scribner classics
Penguin vitae
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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This new edition celebrates the art and craft of the quintessential story of the Lost Generation. Presented by the Hemingway family with supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library, this edition provides readers with wonderful insight regarding Hemingways first great literary masterpiece. The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingways spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at...

13. The whole truth

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Series:
Shaw and Katie James
Language:
English
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"Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception manage" his company to even more riches by manipulating international conflicts. But Creel may have an even grander plan in mind. Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense contractor, The Ares Corporation. Dick Pender is the man Creel retains to "perception...

14. The winners: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown volume 3
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...

15. The keeper of lost things: a novel

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Author:
Hogan, Ruth, 1961-
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects-the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidentally left behind-and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all...

16. Oh William!: a novel

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Author:
Strout, Elizabeth
Series:
Lucy Barton volume 3
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people...

17. Max's chocolate chicken

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Author:
Wells, Rosemary
Series:
Picture Puffins
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AD: Adult Directed 500L
Language:
English
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Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize, a chocolate chicken. It's springtime for the unflappable young rabbit and his overbearing big sister. Max can hardly wait to gobble up the chocolate chicken someone left on his birdbath, and Ruby wants to plan an egg hunt. Full color. All Max wants to do is eat the chocolate chicken that someone left in the birdbath one fine spring morning. But "wait, Max," his sister...

18. Orbital: a novel

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Author:
Harvey, Samantha, 1975-
Language:
English
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...

19. What have we done

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Author:
Finlay, Alex
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English
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"In one of the year's most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls "Alex Finlay's best yet," What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, a bond...

20. The jungle

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Author:
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Dover thrift editions
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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It is the dawn of the twentieth century. Two young Lithuanian immigrants, Jurgis and Ona, hold their wedding celebration in Packingtown, the heart of Chicago's meatpacking district. According to custom, departing guests should give money to help pay for the party and start the newlyweds off in life. But many guests walk out leaving nothing. Ona worries about the couple's debts, but Jurgis calms her, saying, "I will work harder." Strong and confident,...
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