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Star rating for Everyone who is gone is here
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--
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Star rating for Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
A National Bestseller • Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by New York Times
“What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis, the discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the U.S. and Central
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Star rating for Summary of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer: The United States, Central America
Publisher:
jUSTIN REESE
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a CrisisIN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original...
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Star rating for The lost hero
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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.
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Star rating for All good people here
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"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...
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Star rating for The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"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...
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Star rating for A midsummer night's dream
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The original play by Shakespeare's drama telling how Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander but is betrothed to Demetrius, much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. When Hermia and Lysander escape escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them, and Helena chases Demetrius. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dream of love will come true.
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Star rating for Bury your dead
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:

"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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Star rating for The hunchback of Notre-Dame
Lexile measure:
1170L
Description:
"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...
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Star rating for The Nantucket Inn
Language:
English
Description:
"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....
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Star rating for The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories
Lexile measure:
970L
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: - New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars - Biographies of...
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Star rating for The Pursuit of God
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Language:
English
Description:
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...
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Star rating for The man in the iron mask
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Description:
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.
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Star rating for Blood, sweat & chrome
Language:
English
Description:
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...

15. Fathom

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Star rating for Fathom
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Publisher:
Aspen Comics
Language:
English
Description:
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...
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Star rating for The secret diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4
Series:
Adrian Mole volume 1
Lexile measure:
740L
Language:
English
Description:
Follows the ups and downs of one British teenager's life in diary form.
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Star rating for Right ho, Jeeves
Series:
Jeeves volume 6
Description:
Bertie must deal with the Market Snodsbury Grammar School prize giving, the broken engagement of his cousin Angela, the wooing of Madeline Bassett by Gussie Fink-Nottle, and the resignation of Anatole, the genius chef. Will he prevail? Only with the aid of Jeeves!
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Star rating for Descent
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...
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Star rating for The red house mystery
Language:
English
Description:
"At a house party in an English country estate, Mark Ablett entertains his guests. When his brother Robert is found murdered, and when Mark himself disappears, Tony Gillingham endeavors to investigate the mystery with the help of his friend Bill Beverley. The Red House Mystery is a whodunnit novel by A.A. Milne."--Back cover.
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Star rating for The prisoner of Shiverstone
Language:
English
Description:
A positively ingenious story about a mysterious island, long-lost secrets, and a young girl's quest in the world of mad science! In Linette Moore's debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled...