Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Vincent lives on a cargo ship. His paws have never touched land. He spends his days chasing seagulls and eating fresh fish, and at night he stares at the stars that chart his ship's course.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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Summary: "... Spanning three generations and 150 years, The Lehman Trilogy is a moving epic that dares to tell the story of modern capitalism through the saga of the Lehman brothers and their descendants. Surprising and exciting, brilliant and inventive, Stefano Massini's masterpiece--like Hamilton--is a story of immigration, ambition, and success; it is the story of America itself from a daring and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: When Bea's best friend, Henry, seems sad and stops talking to her, she gently tries to find out what is wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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Summary: When Turkey shares his enthusiasm for Thanksgiving with Mr. Bear, he learns that he has no idea what that holiday really means. With wild ideas about birthday cake, fireworks and stockings hung by Santa, he soon finds out what Thanksgiving is all about. What does that mean for Turkey?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yourmom206 2014
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Summary: Now living in Echo, Max Frei joins the night shift secret police and tackles surreal criminal cases involving undead outlaws, alien representatives from another continent, and zombies in the cemetery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2011
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Summary: Buckley and his mother cope with the loss of their father/husband by sending small wooden boats, built by Buckley, off into the ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2015
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Summary: A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1989
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Summary: Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: Follows the adventures of a vice-driven loafer who becomes a celebrity in a magical parallel universe for his membership in an enchanted secret agent organization and his talent for solving extravagant and imaginative cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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Summary: Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. "This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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Summary: When sixteen-year-old Veda's grandfather is chosen as the next sacrifice in their sun-worshipping society, Veda begins questioning what she has been taught and forces herself to look at the injustice in her world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2019
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Summary: When the Twin Towers fall on September 11, 2001, blocks from her school, twelve-year-old Molly, unable to reach her dads or Gran, must find her seven-year-old sister, Adi, and get her safely home. Includes author's note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon Press 1987
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Summary: Leaving her best friend is difficult for a young hedgehog whose family is moving, but everyone assures her that things will be alright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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Summary: "Two bored badgers have run out of things to do until their mom suggests they help with the laundry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2017
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Summary: During a civil war on her island of Bellona, Veda Adeline joins in the fight against the ruling Imperi, but she is conflicted when her childhood friend, Nico is named heir to the Imperi ruler and is taken hostage by her friends in the resistance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2020
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Summary: Because she is teased at school, Daisy hangs her head a lot, which leads to a new hobby of collecting lost and broken items and to a real treasure--a new friend.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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Summary: Sixth grader Lucy is brand-new to middle school, and when her older sister GiGi--the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade--humiliates her in the cafeteria, Lucy snaps and challenges her to a fencing duel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Maurice loved to share his music with everyone, and the crowds loved him, but times changed, his audience drifted away, and without anyone to share with Maurice became sad and lonely--until one day, his heart remembered and he found a new audience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BAGImai Messina, Laura
Summary: When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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Summary: Resa Stone is one of the first humans to set foot on a foreign world. But ever since arriving on planet Wandelsta, the introverted teen witch can't sleep. Visions of a mysterious jeweled forest haunt her dreams. Who is the ghostly shrouded girl who emerges from those woods? And what is the meaning of the ominous message she delivers: You are the one? And when the unearthly messenger appears in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lunalore Books 2023
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Summary: Two-time Bram Stoker-winning, veteran horror author Elizabeth Massie offers up a collection of some of her more obscure horror shorts, a sampling spanning nearly the entire length of her 27-year career thus far. AFRAID opens the collection with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" The 13 stories that follow include darkly light-hearted tales such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 1993