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Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
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In this enchanting sequel to the #1 bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie—the little girl he saved on earth—in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.
In Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran-turned-amusement park mechanic who died
...2) Bull
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David Elliott turns a classic on its head: this rough and rowdy retelling of the Minotaur myth in verse will have readers reevaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters. Garnering six starred reviews, this update of the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur has been called zbeautifully clever,y za literary feast fit for the gods,y "powerful and engrossing," "irresistible, slick, and sharp," "a genre of its own," and "rude...crude, and...
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For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. Completed just before his death, it is the Grand Master's last gift to his legions of admirers. Here, at last, is the story Asimov fans have been waiting for, an...
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There's never a dull moment at Ingleside, Anne's lively home: Anne is now the mother of five children with a sixth baby on the way, But even with endless demands on her time, she couldn't be happier and there's nowhere in the world she'd rather be. No matter what life brings, whether it's the numerous scrapes her children get up to or Gilbert's unsufferable aunt outstaying her welcome, Anne faces every challenge with her usual verve for life. But...
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The Penderwicks volume 3
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When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
7) LONGBOURN
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The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives...
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Foundation series volume 1
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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall--those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his...
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The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they get isn't quite what they had in mind. Mr. Penderwick's sister has decided it's time for him to start dating-- and the girls know that can only mean one thing: disaster. Enter the Save-Daddy Plan-- a plot so brilliant, so bold, so funny, that only the Penderwick girls could have come up with it!
12) Henry and Beezus
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For the well-meaning Henry Huggins, nothing ever works out quite as planned including getting the bike of his dreams. Luckily his pal Beezus Quimby is there to help! Henry's attempts at raising money for his bike fund keep falling flat. Selling bubble gum on the playground gets him in trouble with his teacher, and then Ribsy's nose for mischief almost ruins Henry s paper route. Even pesky little Ramona Quimby manages to get in the way of Henry's chance...
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The fifth novel in Asimov''s popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered...
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Freedom to Read: Books Unite Us
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
Freedom to Read: Books Unite Us
In Remembrance: Fiction Set in Times of War (SCPL)
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This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
15) Ramona the brave
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Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...
16) Ralph S. Mouse
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Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
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OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
OBD Mother's Day (May) - YOUTH
OBD Reading is Groovy - YOUTH
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Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
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"The Foundation lies in ruins--destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity's annihilation. But it's rumored that there's a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity's shining past--and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old...
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OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Father's Day (June) - YOUTH
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When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.
20) Heretics of Dune
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Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over...
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