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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
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[2020]
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Seven-year-old Nia loved running home after school to spend time with her Granddad. She would turn on the music and they would dance around the living room-Nia anchoring herself gently on her grandfather's large shoes. But one day when Nia turned on the music, Granddad thought it was bedtime. Another time, he forgot that he had already eaten his favorite cookies. He also started to forget his famous fish story. Young readers are taken on the journey...
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At last, the first memoir from a Kennedy family member-an inspirational, candid, and explosive personal story sure to be one of the most sensational bestsellers of the year
Christopher Kennedy Lawson was born to enormous privilege. But with fame, money, and power came tragedy and heartbreak. In this clear-eyed, sensitive, and compulsively readable autobiography, he breaks his family's long-held silence to a rare glimpse into the exclusive worlds...
6) Inside U.S.A
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Presents a fiftieth anniversary edition of journalist John Gunther's account of what he learned traveling throughout the United States in the 1940s about the country's people, places, politics, and ideals.
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Elementia chronicles volume 02
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IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
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1010L
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"President Stan has led his people through an epic battle and brought peace to the Republic of Elementia. But dissent is rippling through the countryside. King Kev's loyal followers are still at large and a new organization, the Noctem Alliance, is poised to strike terror throughout the land. With new threats on the horizon, and citizens of the Republic dividing between two loyalties, Stan must stop the Noctem Alliance before it destroys them all"--Back...
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Lyle the crocodile (Bernard Waber) volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 660L
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A family moving into a new house discovers in their bathtub a talented crocodile named Lyle, who soon becomes an important part of the family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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800L
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In March of 1348, the awakening of an ancient evil drives fay creatures from the woods, causes Crowfield Abbey to crumble, and haunts the dreams of the monks, but the demon seems especially drawn to Will, who is beginning to realize the significance of his Sight.
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Rose Macaulay was a fascinating and influential British writer, known for her wit and intellect. She wrote numerous novels, essays and biographies, and she was highly regarded for her versatility as a writer. Her works often explored themes of social change, women's rights and the complexities of human relationships. She had a unique ability to capture the essence of her characters and the world they inhabited, making her a much-admired figure in...
11) Lucky
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IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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670L
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Lucky is a young red squirrel who was rescued from a hawk, and now must somehow make his home among the Cloudfoot clan of the larger, gray squirrels who live in the city park--and trouble is brewing for the rival gray squirrels known as the Northenders are planning an invasion.
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Second foundation trilogy volume 2
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With the Empire in decline, brilliant robot R. Daneel Olivaw has been tapped to oversee the migration to Star's End, but his mission hits a snag when he discovers that other robots, as well as humans, are questioning his strategy.
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"Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews. . . . An account of unparalleled vividness and power that reads like a novel. . . . A masterpiece that will endure." - New York Times Book Review
The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedländer's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of the Holocaust, the most systematic...
16) Just a dog
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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940L
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Corey recounts the adventures and misadventures of his Dalmatian, Mister Mosely.
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"Surveys have found that two thirds of Americans can't pass a basic financial literacy test, and nine in ten believe personal finance should become a required high school course...Tina developed a visual learning strategy using sketches and infographics that helped her succeed in her studies and master even the most complex financial topics. Since then, Tina founded Napkin Finance, a thriving company built on the concept of taking seemingly overwhelming...
18) Little women
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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An abridged version of the novel chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
20) Poor people
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"Because I was bad in my last life." "Because Allah has willed it." "Because the rich do nothing for the poor." "Because the poor do nothing for themselves." "Because it is my destiny." These are just some of the answers to the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asks in cities and villages around the globe: "Why are you poor?" In the tradition of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, writer Vollmann struggles to confront poverty...
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