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1. We survived the night

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Author:
NoiseCat, Julian Brave
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"A stunning work of narrative non-fiction from one of the most powerful young Native American writers at work today-We Survived the Night combines investigative journalism, folklore, and a deeply personal father-son journey in a searing portrait of a community fighting for self-determination in a fractured nation. Born to a Secwepemc father and Jewish-Irish mother, Julian Brave Noisecat's childhood was full of contradictions. Despite living in the...

2. The nightingale

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
Series:
New York Times Bestsellers Fiction
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HL: High-Low 740L
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English
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4.6 stars
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah's next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden"-- "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life...

3. The four winds

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Hannah, Kristin
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English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...

4. Night

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Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Series:
Recorded Books contemporary classics
Night Trilogy
Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection
Prentice Hall literature library
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English
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4 stars
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of a man.

5. Big little lies

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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4.5 stars
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

6. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories

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Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Series:
Sterling classics
Jake Urry Classics Collection
Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
Penguin classics
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1460L
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true? Also, Rip Van...

7. The last bookshop in London: a novel of World War II

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Author:
Martin, Madeline
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English
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"August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling...

8. Dracula

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Author:
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Vintage classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...

9. Half broke horses: a true-life novel

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Author:
Walls, Jeannette
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English
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Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties, marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.

10. Night watch

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Author:
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 1952-
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English
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In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...

11. The war of the worlds

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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On a summer night, at the end of the nineteenth century, a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common in London. An artificial cyliner is found the next day and upon approaching it, the unsuspecting humans are instantly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying Martians emerge and blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England. Amid the boundless destruction that is caused, it looks as if the end of the world has come ... The War of the...

12. The sunflower house: a novel

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Author:
Allegri, Adriana
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English
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"Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory-a real-life Handmaid's Tale-during World War II. In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss's life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle's bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends weekends with her friends and fiancé. But it's 1939, Adolf Hitler is Chancellor, and Allina's family hides a terrifying secret-her birth mother was Jewish,...

13. A most wanted man: a novel

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Author:
Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
Language:
English
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New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled...

14. The lost girls of Camp Forevermore

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Author:
Fu, Kim
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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"From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp--and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come A group of young girls descend onCamp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous...

15. Skinny dip

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Author:
Hiaasen, Carl
Series:
Mick Stranahan
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English
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Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard...

16. That summer: a novel

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Author:
Weiner, Jennifer
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English
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"Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction,...

17. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
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Oxford world's classics
Enriched classics
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. This book presents a tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era. Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor from Marseilles, is soon to be captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved, the beautiful Mercedes. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest on his wedding day, and he is condemned to...

18. Small game: a novel

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Author:
Braverman, Blair
Language:
English
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"A gripping novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds"--

19. The Devil wears Prada

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Author:
Weisberger, Lauren, 1977-
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Devil Wears Prada
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE A MUSICAL STARRING VANESSA WILLIAMS • The iconic novel that inspired the hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway—a gloriously wicked story about the ultimate Boss from Hell and the deals we make with the devil to get to the top

“The degree to which The Devil Wears Prada has penetrated pop culture needs no explanation.”—Vanity...

20. Total recall

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English
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4 stars
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Its 2084 A.D. and Doug Quaid is haunted by recurring dreams about journeying to Earths closest planetary neighbor Mars. He lives in a time that has survived yet another world war and where Government elections are obsolete. His wife accuses him of fantasizing about Mars to escape their boring life-style. Yet, Quaid cant stop thinking about the oppressed Martian colonies under the harsh rule of the tyrant Cohaagen. A flashing advertisement, Call Rekall,...
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