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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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Author:
Blitzer, Jonathan
Language:
English
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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. The housemaid's secret

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
Series:
Housemaid volume 2
Language:
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...

3. The lost hero

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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.

4. The missing half: a novel

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Author:
Flowers, Ashley
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English
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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...

5. All good people here: a novel

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Author:
Flowers, Ashley
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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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...

6. The wind in the willows

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Author:
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
Series:
Great classics for children
Treasury of illustrated classics
BBC Audiobooks for children
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Lexile measure:
1140L
Language:
English
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. Bury your dead

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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
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...

8. The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post: a novel

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Author:
Pataki, Allison
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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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...

9. 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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Language:
English
Average Rating:
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."

10. 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...

11. The Nantucket Inn

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Author:
Kelley, Pamela M.
Series:
Nantucket Beach Plum Cove volume 1
Beach Plum Cove novel volume 1
Language:
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....

12. Persuasion

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Signature classics
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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...

13. To the lighthouse

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Thalia Book Club
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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...

14. The Pursuit of God

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Author:
Tozer, A. W.
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English
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The Pursuit of God teaches us the value of knowing God through our personal experience instead of thinking of Him as an abstract being. With constant communication with God, we will be able to develop a personal relationship with Him. Tozer asserts that God never ceases to speak to us, and we only need to listen and engage in a conversation with our Heavenly Father. The author main goal is to provide insights on how we can establish habits and a lifestyle...

15. The man in the iron mask

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Classic collection
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Lexile measure:
950L
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English
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Imprisoned for your entire life because you looked like someone else is the sad fate of Philippe, twin brother of the King of France, until a rescue plan unfolds.

16. The blue castle

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
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English
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In early 1920s Canada, drastic circumstances give Valancy, a twenty-nine-year-old unmarried woman resigned to being an "old maid," the courage to defy her controlling family and escape to a life of her own choosing.

17. Blood, sweat & chrome: the wild and true story of Mad Max: Fury Road

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Author:
Buchanan, Kyle (Journalist)
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English
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An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's...

18. Fathom

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Author:
Krul, J. T.
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Aspen Comics
Language:
English
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THE FINALE ISSUE OF FATHOM ARRIVES! The fate of both Humanity and the Blue's existence hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to FATHOM: Volume Three! With the events of the past three FATHOM volumes and more all leading up to this moment, The Humans and the now-revealed Blue must unite under a common banner of survival against the Earth's deadliest beings-The Black! However, Aspen Matthews, Siphon, and the Blue will find themselves not only...

19. The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4

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Author:
Townsend, Sue
Series:
Adrian Mole volume 1
Lexile measure:
740L
Language:
English
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Follows the ups and downs of one British teenager's life in diary form.

20. Find him where you left him dead

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Author:
Simmons, Kristen
Series:
Death Games volume 1
Language:
English
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Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished--an...
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