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1. Everyone who is gone is here: the United States, Central America, and the making of a crisis

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Blitzer, Jonathan
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"Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United...

2. Archie

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Archie Superstars
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Archie
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Welcome to Riverdale, the home of everyone's favorite teenager, Archie Andrews - and his closest friends! Dive into these beloved and classic Archie stories, which feature all the elements that have become an important part of pop culture. See the love triangle that includes girl-next-door Betty Cooper and wealthy socialite, Veronica Lodge! Share a burger with Archie's best pal, Jughead Jones! Square off with tough-talking Reggie Mantle! Sit back...

3. The housemaid's secret

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
Series:
Housemaid volume 2
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English
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4.6 stars
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"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...

4. The lost hero

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
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660L
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English
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4.4 stars
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.

5. The missing half: a novel

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Flowers, Ashley
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"Nicole "Nic" Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she's just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she's been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years--since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace. On the night Kasey went...

6. Spawn

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McFarlane, Todd
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Image Comics
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Beginning The Satan Saga Wars! The Four-Part Story Chronicling The Final Fate Of Wanda Simmons Soul! This Story Will Forever Change The Way Spawn Will Live His Life! In the entire run of the Spawn comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself! Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize Wanda's soul. This story will...

7. All good people here: a novel

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Flowers, Ashley
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"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor-and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...

8. The wind in the willows

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Author:
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
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Great classics for children
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1140L
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English
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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...

9. Bury your dead: [a Chief Inspector Gamache novel]

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Three Pines mystery volume 6
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache volume 6
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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5 stars
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"Ralph Cosham's excellent narration of Louise Penny's newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author's best partner." —AudioFile Magazine
Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death—and all the mystery that remains—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to

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10. The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post: a novel

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Pataki, Allison
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Thorndike Press large print core
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"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains...

11. X-O Manowar

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Venditti, Robert
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Valiant Entertainment
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ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! X-O MANOWAR AND NINJAK GO DEEP UNDERCOVER FOR..."THE KILL LIST"! With two kingdoms now under his command, Aric of Dacia has pledged loyalty to his adopted nation - the United States of America - and has given him a new mission: destroy the Vine's network of humanoid alien agents once and for all. To do it, he'll have to turn to the one man among us he can own former enemy, the deadly MI-6 operative called Ninjak!...

12. Emma

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
novels of Jane Austen volume 4
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 4
Everyman's library volume 36
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3.7 stars
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"She wished she might be able to keep him from an absolute declaration. That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive. She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state."

13. The hunchback of Notre-Dame

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Author:
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Series:
Timeless Classics
Hunchback of Notre-Dame volume 5
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Lexile measure:
1170L
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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...

14. The Nantucket Inn

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Author:
Kelley, Pamela M.
Series:
Nantucket Beach Plum Cove volume 1
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 1
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English
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"Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband's gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn't worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills and is virtually unemployable. Her only options are to sell the house and move off-island, or, she could use her cooking and entertaining skills and turn her home into a bed and breakfast....

15. Archie Jumbo Comics Digest

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Archie Superstars
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First, "Volley Folly" Chuck has an idea for a side hustle on the beach-he wants to paint custom volleyballs! He gives a free sample to Jughead in hopes that Jug will talk it up and promote it. The ball has Jughead's face painted on it and Jug loves it. But soon after, Jughead notices weird things are starting to happen, like whenever the ball gets hit, Jughead feels it! Is there more to this novelty volleyball than meets the eye? Then, Bingo Wilkin...

16. World of Archie Double Digest

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Brand New Stories: "Pepcoin Millionare!" Multi-millionaire investor Elon Tusk, an ex-Riverdale High graduate, offers Jughead some financial advice while grabbing a bite at Pop's: to invest in a crypto currency called Pepcoin! A few days later, Jughead realizes his digital investment has made him a millionaire! One problem, though: Jughead has to access his account, and has forgotten his password. He has only two tries left, what will he do? Then,...

17. Persuasion

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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
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Signature classics
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Lexile measure:
1120L
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English
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4.8 stars
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"Published one year after its author's death in 1818, "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. On its most basic level, the book is a love story. On another level, it is a deft exploration of human foibles and social flux. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement...

18. Spawn

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Holguin, Brian
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Wandering the country in hopes of stopping Mammon and regaining the memories he stole, Al Simmons comes across a small town with a mysterious tradition. In order to ensure the safety of its citizens, the townsfolk have created a Tiend celebration that results in a sacrifice. Feeling his involvement is required, Spawn tries to stop the sacrifice. But his heroic motives result in Spawn coming face to face with The Forgotten Ones. Angelic creations of...

19. To the lighthouse

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
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1030L
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English
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4 stars
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"A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi. "Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love." -Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm. The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the...

20. Harbinger

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Dysart, Joshua
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Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toyo Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Sprit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada's most wanted react to the revelation...
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