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1) The bell jar
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English
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This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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English
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From bestselling and award-winning author T.C. Boyle, a lively, thought-provoking novel that asks us what it would be like if we could really talk to the animals
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant.
3) Ungifted
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English
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
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Bad Kitty (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.
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Sonny says volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Sonny is so busy painting that when his friends ask for help, he quickly says, "No!," but when he realizes what he is missing, he must find a way to make things right.
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Tacky the penguin books volume 1
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English
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Tacky the penguin does not fit in with his sleek and graceful companions, but his odd behavior comes in handy when hunters come with maps and traps.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly).
Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in...
Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in...
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English
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When Superheroes dont get their way, when theyre sad, when theyre mad, when theyve had a bad day . . . . . . they COULD super-tantrum, they COULD but they DON'T , because REAL Superheroes just WOULDN'T they WON'T ! All kids have trouble getting a grip on their emotions, sometimeseven young superheroes! But what do they do when theyre having a bad day? Colorful action-packed illustrations and a dynamite rhyming text reveal the many ways superheroes...
11) Tampa
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English
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In this novel, "Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship--car rides after dark, rendezvous at...
12) Kitten trouble
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Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 12
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: There's terrible news in the neighborhood next to Kitty's! A conflict there is growing worse and worse. It started as an argument and has now turned into a full-fledged fight. Worst of all: The cat shelter has been destroyed. Kitty's family decides it's time to do something to help. They have an idea to foster as many displaced kittens as possible. Kitty won't mind, right? Well . . . not exactly. Kitty does seem to mind. She...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendency toward his own ends. As revolutions...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the...
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Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
℗2017.
Language
English
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Night sniper: Cheryl Mabern is the NYPD's most brilliant detective--and the most damaged. Now she must confront her darkest fears to stop a calculating killer committing random murders.
The family lawyer: Criminal defense attorney Matthew Hovanes is at the height of his career with a good marriage and popular athlete daughter Hannah, and smart computer whiz son Daniel. But their lives are shattered when a local girl commits suicide after being anonymously...
17) Fly away home
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
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Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account about a real wolf with the scientific name OR7 (the 7th radio-collared wolf in Oregon) that traveled from eastern Oregon to northern California--the first known wolf in the Golden State in 90 years"--
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