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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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Blitzer, Jonathan
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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 lost hero

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Author:
Riordan, Rick
Series:
Heroes of Olympus volume 1
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660L
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English
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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.

3. The housemaid's secret

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

4. The wind in the willows

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Author:
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932
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Great classics for children
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1140L
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English
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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...

5. All good people here: a novel

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Flowers, Ashley
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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 magnificent lives of Marjorie Post: a novel

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Author:
Pataki, Allison
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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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...

7. Bury your dead: [a Chief Inspector Gamache novel]

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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
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English
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5 stars
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"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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8. Spawn

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Author:
McFarlane, Todd
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Image Comics
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"War To 300," Part Two Last Issue Before Spawn 300! Witness the debut of Todd McFarlane's newest creation The Rapture! Heaven's answer to the mythic Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, these eternal warriors are tasked with eliminating the plague called humanity from the face of the Earth. The War To 300 rages! Next month, new allegiances will form, new enemies will rise, and history will be made! Hollywood News! Soon to be a major motion picture from...

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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English
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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
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Lexile measure:
1170L
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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. Persuasion

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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
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Signature classics
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1120L
Language:
English
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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...

12. The Nantucket Inn

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

13. Archie (Jumbo Comics) Digest

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Archie Superstars
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Archie
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First, "Volley Folly" Chuck has an idea for a side hustle on the beach-he wants to paint custom volleyballs! He gives a free sample to Jughead in hopes that Jug will talk it up and promote it. The ball has Jughead's face painted on it and Jug loves it. But soon after, Jughead notices weird things are starting to happen, like whenever the ball gets hit, Jughead feels it! Is there more to this novelty volleyball than meets the eye? Then, Bingo Wilkin...

14. X-O Manowar

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Venditti, Robert
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Valiant Entertainment
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ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! X-O MANOWAR AND NINJAK GO DEEP UNDERCOVER FOR..."THE KILL LIST"! With two kingdoms now under his command, Aric of Dacia has pledged loyalty to his adopted nation - the United States of America - and has given him a new mission: destroy the Vine's network of humanoid alien agents once and for all. To do it, he'll have to turn to the one man among us he can own former enemy, the deadly MI-6 operative called Ninjak!...

15. World of Archie Double Digest

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Archie Superstars
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Archie
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Brand New Stories: "Pepcoin Millionare!" Multi-millionaire investor Elon Tusk, an ex-Riverdale High graduate, offers Jughead some financial advice while grabbing a bite at Pop's: to invest in a crypto currency called Pepcoin! A few days later, Jughead realizes his digital investment has made him a millionaire! One problem, though: Jughead has to access his account, and has forgotten his password. He has only two tries left, what will he do? Then,...

16. To the lighthouse

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
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Lexile measure:
1030L
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English
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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...

17. Ninjak

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Kindt, Matt
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ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! "THE FIST AND THE STEEL" starts now! Many years from now, Earth's immortal master of war and the world's deadliest intelligence operative fight side by side. As was foretold in the BOOK OF DEATH, an aging Ninjak and Eternal Warrior are fated to spend their days as humanity's guardians, protecting it from the myriad threats that loom over the horizon of Earth's future. But when the ultimate menace rises to obliterate...

18. The Pursuit of God

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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...

19. Adventure Time

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Author:
Hastings, Christopher
Publisher:
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2024
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Alright, so, to protect the super-cool sword Finn found all the way back in issue #36 (and lost, it's a whole thing-go back and read it if you don't remember!), Finn has been making a dungeon on the moon for a really, really long time. Now he's just waiting for the right person to come find the sword and beat up those ancient beings that are terrorizing Ooo! Should be . . . hopefully . . . any second now . . .

20. The man in the iron mask

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
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Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
930L
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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.
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