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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker—a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind.
“An irresistible delight, something like Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand as played by James Bond.” —The Washington Post
Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in...
“An irresistible delight, something like Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand as played by James Bond.” —The Washington Post
Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in...
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Language
English
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The New York Times bestselling author takes a riveting new direction with this richly textured, multi-layered novel of friendship, murder, revenge, and class conflict set in an upper-crust English school-as enthralling and haunting as Ian McKewan's Atonement and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Audere, agere, auferre.
To dare, to strive, to conquer.
For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's School for Boys, groomed...
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English
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Swedish Detective Inspector Joona Linna investigates the murders of three family members whose killing was witnessed by a fourth intended victim; Linna, seeing only one option, enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through the boy's eyes.
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Language
English
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" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."
Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life...
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Publisher
Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This old car has been everywhere from the backyard to the sky, from the hills to the water. Bouncing between the mud in the ground and the clouds up high, the old car is loved by a clever young boy, just as readers will love this singsong story from an iconic children's author duo.
9) Green pants
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jameson loves green pants, but he must wear black pants to be in his cousin's wedding.
10) Half a king
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Series
Language
English
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Yarvi, second son of the feared King Uthrik and the ruthless Queen Laithlin of Gettland, was born with a useless hand, and cannot hold a shield, or make fast a knot, or pull an oar, or do any of the things expected from a man. Left an outcast, he' s surrendered his birthright and been given a woman' s place as apprentice to Mother Gundring, Gettland' s Minister, training to be an adviser, diplomat, healer and translator. But when his father and brother...
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Marty Pants volume 2
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English
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When Marty finds a ripped page from his sister's diary, the most crucial piece?revealing Marty's true identity?is still locked inside his sister?s room. Undaunted, Marty pieces the clues together and comes to the most logical conclusion: he's on a one-way trip to werewolfville! Superhuman speed. Howling. Hairiness. The evidence is mounting against him, and with his werewolf powers growing stronger, Marty is determined to protect his classmates from...
13) The quiet boy
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Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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English
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"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Language
English
Description
Leroy Ninker gets a horse.
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Language
English
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One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
"A brilliant novel.... [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds."—New York Times
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends'
...17) Billy and Blaze
Author
Series
Billy and Blaze books volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.
18) Flashlight
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In this story without words, a boy explores the woods after dark with a flashlight.
20) Homer Price
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1976, c1943
Language
English
Description
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
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