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1. Who we are!: all about being the same and being different

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Author:
Harris, Robie H.
Series:
Let's talk about you and me
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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North Haven Children's Nonfiction
j 155.2 Harris
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Join Nellie, Gus, baby Jake, and their parents at Funland as they go on rides, watch performers, and play games along with many other children and grown-ups. As they enjoy their excursion, they notice that people are the same as one another in lots of ways, and different in lots of ways too. Helps children realize why it's important to treat others the way they want to be treated whether a person is a lot like you or different from you, a good friend...

2. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little women collection volume 1
Puffin in bloom
Children's library
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

3. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Signature classics
Dover Thrift Editions
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...

4. Big little lies

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

5. A midsummer night's dream

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Shakespeare
Plays
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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The original play by Shakespeare's drama telling how Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander but is betrothed to Demetrius, much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. When Hermia and Lysander escape escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them, and Helena chases Demetrius. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dream of love will come true.

6. Pieces of her: a novel

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
Series:
Andrea Oliver
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we? But all that changes when a trip to the...

7. Mrs. Dalloway

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

8. Furiously happy: {a funny book about horrible things}

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Author:
Lawson, Jenny, 1973-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling...

9. The creative act: a way of being

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Author:
Rubin, Rick
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Book, OverDrive eBook
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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin. Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...

10. Every day

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Author:
Levithan, David
Series:
Every day volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.

11. The story of Arthur Truluv: a novel

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Author:
Berg, Elizabeth
Series:
Reader's circle
Mason volume 1
Masoon volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly worth living....

12. Life on the Mississippi

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Library of America paperback classics
Penguin American library
Language:
English
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...

13. The mystery of Edwin Drood

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Oxford illustrated Dickens
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
Penguin classics
Language:
English
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Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics. Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas...

14. Summer secrets

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Author:
Green, Jane, 1968-
Language:
English
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"June, 1998: At twenty seven, Catherine Coombs, also known as Cat, is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. Her lunchtimes consist of several glasses of wine at the bar downstairs in the office, her evenings much the same, swigging the free booze and eating the free food at a different launch or party every night. When she discovers the identity of the father she never knew she had, it sends her into a spiral. She...

15. Twelve years a slave

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Author:
Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Series:
American Classics Children's Collection
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...

16. The Science of Getting Rich

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Author:
Wattles, Wallace D.
Series:
GPS Guides to Life
Language:
English
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Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook
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The book that inspired Rhonda Byrne to create The Secret is now available as an Ultimate Edition by Restored Classics Publishing. As a highly reproduced and sought after public domain work, Wallace D. Wattles' "The Science of Getting Rich" has been on the receiving end of more than a few typographical mistakes over the course of its life. Each transcribed presentation of the text appears to have been littered with its own set of misspellings and errors...

17. The tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Author:
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
Series:
Wildside classic
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
The Complete Bronte Sisters Children's Collection
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...

18. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ

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Author:
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Xist Classics
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Lew Wallace's epic novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" brings readers to the ancient realm of Judea during the reign of Jesus Christ. At its core lies the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who is falsely accused and enslaved by the Romans. Ben-Hur meets Jesus while on a voyage of revenge, redemption, and spiritual awakening, and his teachings and miracles have a tremendous impact on his life. The story, set against a backdrop of political...

19. Passing

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Author:
Larsen, Nella
Series:
Penguin classics
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Irene Redfield, married to a successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem, New York. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned, "passes" as white and is married to a racist white man who has no idea about his wife's racial heritage. Clare is very persuasive and Irene, despite misgivings, can't resist letting her back into her world. As tensions mount between friends...

20. Fathom

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Author:
Krul, J. T.
Publisher:
Aspen Comics
Language:
English
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THE FINALE ISSUE OF FATHOM ARRIVES! The fate of both Humanity and the Blue's existence hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to FATHOM: Volume Three! With the events of the past three FATHOM volumes and more all leading up to this moment, The Humans and the now-revealed Blue must unite under a common banner of survival against the Earth's deadliest beings-The Black! However, Aspen Matthews, Siphon, and the Blue will find themselves not only...
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