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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan. This tale includes delicious details of life before The Cruel Prince, an adventure beyond The Queen of Nothing, and familiar but pivotal moments from The Folk of the Air novels, told wholly from Cardan's perspective. This addition to the Folk of the Air series...
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2024.
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English
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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns iut into a place to bury her untold stories -- literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried but failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a nysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--Provided...
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2019.
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English
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award Finalists 2024 (Fiction)
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award Finalists 2024 (Fiction)
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
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"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
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When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.
7) Mister Pip
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Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse...
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse...
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Gooney Bird volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
10) Dear cyborgs
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A fractal fable about the possibility and power of protest as told by three superheroes on their lunch break In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponders modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on...
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by." -Globe and Mail When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death,...
14) Hour of the bees
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina - Carol - is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she{u2019}s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her...
16) Thirteen chairs
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Publisher
David Fickling Books, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When Jack enters the deserted house in his neighborhood, he finds a group of people who invite him to take the thirteenth chair in the room and share a story--in the house where the ghosts meet.
17) The book cook
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Publisher
Baobab Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"On Christmas Eve, the spirit of the holiday comes alive when twins Maria and Matty need a miracle if they are going to find the perfect gift for their mother before the big day arrives. With their father's permission, the twins set out, traversing the city through a blistering storm searching for an open shop where they might find a gift at such a late hour. With time and their hopes dwindling, the twins catch a wonderful scent on the wind. Following...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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"El psicólogo argentino, Jorge Bucay, presenta Déjame que te cuente, un libro que ha vendido más de 2 millones de copias alrededor del mundo desde su publicación en el 2002. Usando su método de contar historias como herramienta para el crecimiento personal, el terapeuta Jorge Bucay comparte una serie de cuentos que sirven como metáforas para situaciones de la vida diaria. Demián es un joven ansioso por aprender cómo enfrentar los obstáculos...
19) Decameron
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the plague decide to tell each other stories.
20) Black dove
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Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. Running from a...
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