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Pub. Date
2015.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm.
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In this book, five young friends -- Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin -- spend the day traveling around their neighborhood and participating in activities designed to raise money for their local library. Along the way, they learn about the people and places that make up their community and what it means to be a part of one.
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The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father.
The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and...
The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and...
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When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born; but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social worker is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home.
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A town under quarantine during the 1918 flu epidemic must reckon with forces beyond their control in a powerful, sweeping novel of morality in a time of upheaval
“An American variation on Albert Camus’ The Plague.”—Chicago Tribune
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • WINNER OF THE JAMES FENIMORE COOPER...
“An American variation on Albert Camus’ The Plague.”—Chicago Tribune
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • WINNER OF THE JAMES FENIMORE COOPER...
6) Messenger
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Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Description
The third book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver.
Trouble is brewing in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on welcoming strangers, Village will soon be cut off to all outsiders.
As one of the few able to traverse the forbidding Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village's closing and try to convince Seer's daughter Kira to return
...7) Cape perdido
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Marcia Muller, bestselling author of the acclaimed series starring San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone, returns to the remote northern California coast of Point Deception and Cyanide Wells with an exciting new novel.
A riveting mystery full of atmosphere and suspense, this tale explores the dark heart of a small town where passion-and murder-runs as deep as the river that flows through it... Amid ancient redwoods and sun-dappled reeds, the...
A riveting mystery full of atmosphere and suspense, this tale explores the dark heart of a small town where passion-and murder-runs as deep as the river that flows through it... Amid ancient redwoods and sun-dappled reeds, the...
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
9) All of us
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
Description
Simple text and collage illustrations remind the reader that we are stronger together than alone.
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
vi, 302 leaves ; 29 cm.
Description
A dissertation by Jack Estes "in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY." "Abstract--The purpose of this study was to examine the interdependent relationship between two communities, one of which is actually a sub-unit to the other. The study dealt with a small city in Washington state and with a junior-level beadminton [sic] club that has been a part of that city since 1955..." -- Jack Estes.
15) Messenger
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Giver quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Pub. Date
c2006
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xiv, 394 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic–Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small mill town called Commonwealth, conceived as a haven for workers weary of exploitation. For Philip Worthy, the adopted son of the town’s founder, it is a haven in another...
17) The arsonist
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Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home -- home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident, or arson? Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to recognize her father's slow failing and her mother's desperation, another house...
18) The doughnut fix
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When his family moves to tiny Petersville, eleven-year-old Tris stops focusing on his perfect sister, Jeanine, by using his cooking expertise to revive a town tradition of chocolate cream doughnuts.--Provided by Publisher.
20) Flood
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Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
A beautiful wordless picture book about the effects of a flood on a family and their home.
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