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1. We loved it all: a memory of life

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Author:
Millet, Lydia, 1968-
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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East Hampton New Adult Nonfiction
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"A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the difficulty of adoring what we destroy. Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet's first work of nonfiction, We Loved It All, is a genre-defying tour de force that makesan impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for...

2. Sandwich: a novel

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Author:
Newman, Catherine, 1968-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.

3. 1984: a novel

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Author:
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Series:
Penguin readers
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Signet classics
Lexile measure:
1090L
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control - something like love, perhaps?"--Page 4 of cover.

4. There there: a novel

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Author:
Orange, Tommy, 1982-
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces abrilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...

5. The house in the pines: a novel

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Author:
Reyes, Ana, 1982-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"A captivating psychological suspense debut about a young woman still haunted by her teenage best friend's death who learns of an eerily similar death and must find her way back to a cabin in the New England woods, armed only with hazy memories, to finally find out the truth that has eluded her. Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with...

6. Night

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Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Series:
Night Trilogy
Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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.

7. Mrs. Dalloway

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

8. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Alice in Wonderland
Tantor unabridged classics
Rainbow classics
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

9. This time tomorrow

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Author:
Straub, Emma
Language:
English
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3.3 stars
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"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...

10. The storyteller: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...

11. Long road to mercy

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Author:
Baldacci, David
Series:
Atlee Pine volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Atlee Pine is an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she's the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau's top criminal profilers, if she didn't prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her chosen...

12. Lessons

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Author:
McEwan, Ian
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.

13. Life on the Mississippi

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Library of America paperback classics
Penguin American library
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...

14. The untethered soul: the journey beyond yourself

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Author:
Singer, Michael A.
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness.

15. The summer we started over: a novel

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Author:
Thayer, Nancy, 1943-
Language:
English
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Book, Large Print
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"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...

16. Silent night: a novel

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Author:
Steel, Danielle
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...

17. Adam Bede

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Author:
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Series:
Great illustrated classics
Wordsworth classics
Lexile measure:
1180L
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The stern and highminded hero, Adam Bede, loves the vain and selfish Hetty Sorrel, but their happiness is ruined when Hetty is seduced by a young squire.

18. Villette

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
The Complete Bronte Sisters Children's Collection
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
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Description:
Villette, by Charlotte Bronte, 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 todays top writers and scholars - Biographies of the authors - Chronologies of contemporary...

19. The story of my life

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Author:
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
Series:
Tantor unabridged classics
Lexile measure:
1090L
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.

20. How to stop time

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Author:
Haig, Matt, 1975-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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