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1. Playground: a novel

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Author:
Powers, Richard, 1957-
Language:
English
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The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

2. The devil's playground: a novel

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Author:
Russell, Craig, 1956-
Publisher:
Doubleday
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
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"A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist. This is the breakout from Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect. 1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly...

3. The playground

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Author:
Shemilt, Jane
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There's Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior...

4. The lemonade crime

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Author:
Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-
Series:
Lemonade war volume 2
Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
English
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When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.

5. Bridge to Terabithia

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Author:
Paterson, Katherine
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

6. The age of innocence

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Author:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Series:
Collectors' Library
Modern Library classics
Modern library of the world's best books
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5 stars
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Newland Archer is a proper New York gentleman, and part of a society which adheres to strict social codes. Newland marries May Welland, a young woman whose upbringing has made her the perfect wife. When Newland meets May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left her husband in Europe and now wants a divorce, he finds himself utterly captivated by her. Both Ellen and Newland, however, are products of their upbringing and their culture, and...

7. Abandoned in death

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Author:
Robb, J. D., 1950-
Series:
In death novel volume 54
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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"The woman's body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong--like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: "Bad Mommy," written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department's top profiler, who confirms...

8. Plum spooky

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Author:
Evanovich, Janet
Series:
Stephanie Plum volume 14.50
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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Believing her life cannot get any more complicated, only to receive a return visit from the mysterious Diesel, Stephanie Plum goes camping with her sidekick, Lula, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where they hope to spot the elusive Jersey Devil.

9. The beautiful and damned

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Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Enriched classics
Vintage classics
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Lexile measure:
1120L
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Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end.

10. Out of range

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Author:
Box, C. J.
Series:
Joe Pickett novel volume 5
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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Game warden Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy - all right, survive - his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good friend, has killed himself. And Joe's been picked to temporarily run Jensen's Teton district. Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring - it's the epicenter for many environmental extremists and an elite playground...

11. Goodnight nobody: a novel

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Author:
Weiner, Jennifer
Series:
WSP readers club
Language:
English
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Having relocated to an alienating Connecticut suburb after a mugging in her native New York City, wife and mother Kate Klein undertakes a murder investigation during her children's school hours when a local mom is killed.

12. The last train to London: a novel

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Author:
Clayton, Meg Waite
Language:
English
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4 stars
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The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See , centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe and one brave woman who helped them escape to safety. In 1936, the Nazi are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of...

13. Little children

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Author:
Perrotta, Tom, 1961-
Language:
English
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A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an obssessive-compulsive mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into town and two of the parents have an affair.

14. Ghost fleet: a novel of the next world war

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Author:
Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghost fleet." Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style...

15. The school for good mothers: a novel

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Author:
Chan, Jessamine
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English
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"Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a year...

16. Cry baby

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Author:
Billingham, Mark
Series:
DI Tom Thorne volume 17
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English
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"In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on a case that quickly spirals out of control when two people connected with the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European soccer championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage. A prequel to Billingham's acclaimed...

17. Upstairs at the White House: my life with the First Ladies

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Author:
West, J. B.
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Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Language:
English
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Chief usher of the White House for three decades, J.B. West shares anecdotes and little-known historical accounts of his time with the First Ladies.

18. NOS4A2: a novel

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Author:
Hill, Joe
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back.

19. Marlena: a novel

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Author:
Buntin, Julie
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow...

20. Long way down

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Author:
Reynolds, Jason
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 720L
Language:
English
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
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