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1. We loved it all: a memory of life

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Author:
Millet, Lydia, 1968-
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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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-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 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. Archie

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Archie Superstars
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Archie
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Welcome to Riverdale, the home of everyone's favorite teenager, Archie Andrews - and his closest friends! Dive into these beloved and classic Archie stories, which feature all the elements that have become an important part of pop culture. See the love triangle that includes girl-next-door Betty Cooper and wealthy socialite, Veronica Lodge! Share a burger with Archie's best pal, Jughead Jones! Square off with tough-talking Reggie Mantle! Sit back...

4. 1984

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Author:
Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Series:
Penguin readers
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
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.

5. Great expectations

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics volume 10
Vintage classics
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development...

6. There there: a novel

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Author:
Orange, Tommy, 1982-
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 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...

7. To the lighthouse

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Thalia Book Club
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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...

8. Mrs. Dalloway

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Everyman's library volume 157
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....

9. The summer we started over: a novel

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Author:
Thayer, Nancy, 1943-
Language:
English
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4 stars
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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...

10. Memorial days

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Author:
Brooks, Geraldine
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"It was Memorial Day, 2019, when Geraldine Brooks received news that her husband, Tony Horwitz, had collapsed and died, far from home, in the middle of his own book tour. The complex tasks required in the face of such a sudden death left her no time to properly grieve for him. Three years later, still feeling broken and bereft, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Tasmania. Alone on a rugged stretch of coast, she revisited a thirty-five-year...

11. Night

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Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Series:
Recorded Books contemporary classics
Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection
Night Trilogy volume 1
Prentice Hall literature library
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.

12. My Antonia

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Author:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Everyman paperback
Great Plains Trilogy volume 3
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. After the death of her immigrant father, Antonia works as a servant for neighbors in the farmlands of Nebraska. She leaves for an unfortunate affair with an Irish railway conductor, but returns home, eventually marries and raises a large family in true pioneer style.

13. Swann's way

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Author:
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Series:
Penguin great books of the 20th century
In Search of Lost Time volume 1
Dover Thrift Editions Classic Novels
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, Swann's Way is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the...

14. Persuasion

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Signature classics
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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...

15. The house in the pines: a novel

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Author:
Reyes, Ana, 1982-
Language:
English
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3.1 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...

16. The time traveler's wife

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Author:
Niffenegger, Audrey
Series:
Harvest book
Lexile measure:
720L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures...

17. 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...

18. 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.

19. Winnie-the-Pooh

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Author:
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
Series:
Winnie-the-Pooh volume 1
Chivers CD children's audio books
A.A. Milne's Pooh classics volume 1
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.

20. The mill on the Floss

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Author:
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Series:
Broadview editions
BBC radio collection
Everyman's library volume 112
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Lexile measure:
1240L
Language:
English
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Description:
A woman ahead of her time faces a choice between loyalty and love in marrying a childhood friend or her true passion, her cousin's fiance.
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