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New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year
"A new masterpiece of American literature." -Dennis Lehane, Entertainment Weekly
"A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It's twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner." -Chuck Palahniuk
Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 20
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IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Karen's plan to hold a neighborhood carnival becomes more of a problem than she expected.
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[2024]
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English
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Calling all dudes buckle up, because the new adventures of Ed and Dex start now! Your favorite fast-food duo is back and serving up nostalgic laughs and new antics in Good Burger 2. Follow Dexter Reed and original cashier Ed as they reunite in the present day at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of employees. Dexter is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open...
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Friendship letters volume 3
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When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.
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2023.
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"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
8) Henry's hand
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IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Henry is a monster whose body parts tend to fall off but his right hand helps keep everything together and is his best friend, until Henry becomes lazy and his hand decides to leave.
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"To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer's clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate."--
"Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider--that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on,...
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2023.
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"Sixteen-year-old Mehreen is overwhelmed by her anxiety and depression, and she doesn't believe anyone in her life will understand if she tries to talk about it. She's been thinking about suicide for a while when she discovers a website called MementoMori.com. The site matches people with partners and assigns them a date on which to end their lives, together. Mehreen is partnered with Cara and Olivia, strangers dealing with their own struggle. But...
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Fortuna beach volume 02
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After being magically gifted with incredible luck, sixteen-year-old Jude discovers this gift just may be a curse when it comes to love.
Jude is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw his comics, host regular D&D night with his friends, work at his parents' vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible. That is, until the night he comes across a mysterious twenty-sided dice and finds himself inexplicably gifted...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 82
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In Ms. Colman's Secret Valentine project, the identities of everyone's secret pal are revealed, but a big--and very secret--mixup causes mass confusion.
13) Karen's tuba
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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420L
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English
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Karen's class is taking music lessons, and all of the kids are getting instruments! Instead of a beautiful flute, Karen ends up with a big, old tuba.
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Scags is a precocious little girl who lives in Skokie, Illinois. The year is 1958. The story she tells takes place during her summer vacation when she is 7 years old. Her best friend, Julia, is away at camp. Her new friend, Davy, is a boy and somewhat of a bother but better than being alone all day long. Her Pops is her favorite adult as well as her father and something is wrong with him. During this long summer vacation Scags begins to understand...
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Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
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[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
16) Minn and Jake
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect.
17) Slugfest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget."--
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Charmed life (Lisa Schroeder) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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670L
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When faced with returning home from summer camp to an upset home life, Caitlin takes the first turn wearing a good-luck charm bracelet that she and her cabin roommates bought together, hoping it will turn her luck around.
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When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it's not the 'good life' she'd imagined, as three hours of digging barely yields a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear.So when her friend entreats her to join the new bookclub she's forming, Leah decides it's something she will...
20) Fox versus fox
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[2024]
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When a newcomer arrives, Fox demonstrates all his foxy skills, but when the other creature can do all the same things, he wonders if it really is another fox - and possibly a new friend!
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