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1. The bright years: a novel

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Author:
Damoff, Sarah
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they're unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo. Ryan and Lillian Bright are deeply in love, recently married, and now parents to a baby girl, Georgette. But Lillian has a son she hasn't told Ryan about, and Ryan has...

2. On the bright side: the new secret diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 years old

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Author:
Groen, Hendrik
Series:
Hendrik Groen volume 2
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English
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85-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and practicing hairpin turns on his mobility scooter. Inspired by his fellow members of the recently formed Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he vows to put down his Custard Cream and commit to a spot of octogenarian anarchy. But the care home's Director will not stand for drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks and geriatric...

3. The gratitude diaries: how a year looking on the bright side can transform your life

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Author:
Kaplan, Janice
Publisher:
Dutton
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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Recounts how the author spent a year living gratefully, drawing on advice from psychologists, academics, doctors, and philosophers to gain a fresh outlook that transformed her relationships, work, health, and daily life.

4. Half Full: The History and Bright Future of 10,000 Years of Optimism

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Author:
Meiners, Willem
Publisher:
Bicker Hollow
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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The world is not going to hell. America is not staring into an abyss, there is no third world war looming on the horizon, and this is not the golden age of pessimism. There is every reason to worry about climate change, violence and fake news peddlers, but history is made by optimists, not by pessimists. For 10,000 years already. Once our ancestors figured out how to cook their food, they shrunk their intestines and quadrupled their brain size. And...

5. Half Full in Maine: The History and Bright Future of 10,000 Years of Optimism Down East & Everywhere Else

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Author:
Meiners, Willem
Publisher:
Bicker Hollow
Pub. Date:
2023
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The world is not going to hell. Least of all Maine. Tempting evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, we are actually living in a golden age of optimism. Hat tip to Mainers including thank-you-for-the-weekend Frances Perkins, Millinocket papermaker Garrett Schenck, banjo artists on the Kennebec, a certain bestselling Carrie author from Bangor, Hampden's Dorothea Dix, and the little known man who now rests at a small cemetery on Mount Desert Island,...

6. Tokyo Junkie: 60 years of bright lights and back alleys . . . and baseball

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Author:
Whiting, Robert
Publisher:
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date:
[2021]
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English
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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city's dark underbelly, interviews...

7. Everything Bright, Clear, and Beautiful: A Year of Poetry

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Author:
Ford, Rachel Devenish
Publisher:
Small Seed Press
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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On March 20, 2020, Rachel Devenish Ford started writing a poem a day, and she continued with this practice for an entire year. Her poetry is a gentle response to each day, like an answer in a conversation. Each one is a small, contained thing, translating world events, family events, or insect life into something a little easier to see, to love.The poems are loose, dreamy, and tidal. Read sequentially, they give a picture of one woman's life during...

8. Call of the Kingfisher - Bright sights and birdsong in a year by the river (Unabridged)

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Author:
Penny, Nick
Publisher:
Bradt Guides
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and wildlife recordist Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch of Northamptonshire's River Nene celebrates all the wild things that live there, especially the kingfishers. Nick has walked beside the river at Oundle for four decades. But for a whole year he gave the waterway all the time it asked for. The more attention he gave it, the more he saw the kingfishers and heard their high...

9. Your Best Years

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Author:
Bright Soul Words
Publisher:
Kameta LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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A lot of people realize that a positive mindset leads to a better life. But you are probably already aware of how hard it is to unlearn toxic thought patterns that can lead to unhappiness. Imagine how much liberation you'll feel when you will be freed from the shackles of negative thinking and anxiety. In fact, you are already one step closer to this change, as you invest your time in this program right now. We're not going to say this bundle is the...

10. The best bear in all the world: in which we join Winnie-the-Pooh for a year of adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood

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Series:
Winnie-the-Pooh
Publisher:
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date:
2016
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850L
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English
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11. Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

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Author:
Van Pelt, Shelby
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English
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...

12. Night road

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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HL: High-Low 660L
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English
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When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later.

13. Anne of Green Gables

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
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great classics for children
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was not...

14. How the light gets in

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Three Pines mystery volume 9
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache volume 9
Thorndike Press large print mystery
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English
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How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." —Leonard Cohen
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for

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15. How to read a book: a novel

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Wood, Monica
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"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed....

16. Maisie Dobbs: a novel

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Author:
Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-
Series:
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 1
Maisie Dobbs
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English
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"The daughter of a struggling greengrocer, Maisie Dobbs was only thirteen when she was sent to work as a maid for wealthy London aristocrats. But being bright and thoughtful beyond her years, Maisie studies her way to Cambridge, then serves as a nurse on the Front during the Great War. Now, it's the spring of 1929, nearly ten years after the Armistice and Maisie has just opened up her own detective agency. Her first assignment, a seemingly open-and-shut...

17. We begin at the end

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Author:
Whitaker, Chris
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...

18. About a boy

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Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.

19. The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women

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Author:
Moore, Kate
Series:
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
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980L
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English
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The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War. Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the...

20. Long bright river

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Author:
Moore, Liz, 1983-
Language:
English
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"A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious murders; the other a police officer who patrols the neighborhood from which she disappeared: a story about the formidable ties between place, family, and fate" --
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