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1) Autumn
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English
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"From the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both: a breathtakingly inventive new novel--about aging, time, love, and stories themselves--that launches an extraordinary quartet of books called Seasonal. Readers love Ali Smith's novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and--good news for fans!--is the first installment...
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English
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"When we first meet U., the narrator of SATIN ISLAND, he is sitting in the airport at Turin, caught in a delay caused by a rogue airplane. Like everyone else in the waiting area, he is sifting through airport pages on his laptop, and then through news sites, social pages, corridors of trivia...until he happens to stumble on information about an image on a famous shroud in Turin. The image itself isn't even visible on the shroud; it only emerged when...
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Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving...
4) The bear
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, specializing in deciphering ancient texts. And when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of...
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BZRK volume 3
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding book in the BZRK trilogy, war is again being waged in the macro and the nano, and Lear's identity is finally uncovered"--
8) Supposing
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A child imagines many silly, impossible, and even naughty things and their possible consequences, from learning unusual languages to building a tiny boat and sailing around the world.
9) Why am I me?
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
10) That's life!
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Life personified appears at a child's door and takes them on a journey in which they learn to have the time of their Life, that Life is full of surprises, and much more.
11) Di algo!
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
En este nuevo libro de cuentos, el querido autor Peter H. Reynolds explora muchas maneras en las que una sola voz puede hacer la diferencia. Cada uno de nosotros, cada d�ia, tiene la oportunidad de decir algo: con nuestras acciones, nuestras palabras y nuestras voces. Este libro es perfecto para ni�nos activistas de cualquier parte. Esta historia intemporal recuerda a los lectores la innegable importancia y el poder de sus voces.
Encourages readers...
13) The twice lost
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Series
Lost voices trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of "twice lost" girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.
""A stone-cold masterpiece.""—New Scientist
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...15) The path
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Publisher
Minedition
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Award-winning author and New Yorker cover artist Bob Staake's lyrical words and stunning illustrations will lead children and adults alike to discover the encouraging truth that our path through life is not only challenging and beautiful-it is all our own to discover and invent. With a bonus The Path poster from Bob Staake inside the jacket! "You will walk. You will walk along a well-worn path that many people have taken-and...
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Publisher
Spinifex Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
One day there will be peace in Vietnam. But not before more war. Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. The prescient warnings from the Lady weigh heavily on Liên, who is burdened by her inability to save everyone. But she knows that the Lady speaks most to those who listen. Set against the background of the Vietnam war and in its aftermath the rule by the Communist regime, in The Lady of the Realm, we follow...
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Publisher
Conch Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
As kittens we feel it often. All it takes is a wind-blown feather, an unexpected delicacy, or the alluring rush of water and instantly we are caught up in it: Wonderment. Enchantment. Being fully absorbed in the here and now.
By the time we reach senior status, way beyond the point of being impressed by such trivia, we have become knowing and indifferent.
But we have lost something, have we not?
Which begs answers to some intriguing
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and
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John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Steven L. Peck's intriguing, literary narrative follows Gilda Trillim's many adventures; from her origins on a potato farm in Idaho, to an Orthodox Convent in the Soviet Union, to her life as a badminton champion...When Gilda is, taken prisoner during the Vietnam war, she finds comfort in the company of the rats who cohabit her cell. Follow Gilda as she struggles to comprehend the meaning of life in this uncanny, philosophical novel, which explores...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg
Discovered as three notebooks in an antique store in Rome at the turn of the millennium, Infinite, previously published as The Reincarnationist Papers, offers a tantalizing glimpse into the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives.
Evan Michaels struggles with being different, with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially...
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