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What do readers say about Island of the Blue Dolphins?
stiff and dated contemporary realistic fiction native american culture adventure of survivalKarana, an Indian girl, lives happily with her people on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. It is an island in the Pacific that gets its name from its beautiful shape from above it looks like a dolphin lying on its side, "with its tail pointing toward ... More details on Island of the Blue Dolphins
I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and was a gull with folded wings. At last in the rising sun it became...
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What do readers say about It's Not the End of the World?
parents fightingg and friendships still relevant, still timeless teenage theme books not a long bookCan Karen keep her parents from getting a divorce? This classic novel from Judy Blume has a fresh new look.
Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to take her Viking diorama out of the sixth-grade showcase. She felt like yelling, "To keep my par... More details on It's Not the End of the World
I don’t think I’ll ever get married. Why should I? All it does is make you miserable. Just look at Mrs. Singer. Last year she was Miss Pace and everybody loved her. I said I’d absolutely die if I didn...
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What do readers say about The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher, Or, The Murder At Road Hil...?
mostly gripping and un-put-downable cut and dried sad and interesting a little victorian mysteryWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
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'The finest documentary writing' John le Carré... More details on The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher, Or, The Murder At Road Hil...
In the early hours of Friday, 29 June 1860 Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep on the first floor of their detached three-storey Georgian house above the village of Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They...
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What do readers say about Running the Books?
memoir of a pimp entertaining without being compelling its cover art anecdote to anecdoteAvi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lof... More details on Running the Books
Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers—adept at crowd control, at collaborating with a small staff, at planning with deliberation...
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What do readers say about The Chris Farley Show?
very fast moving fascinating and horrifying not your average biography numerous first hand accountsThe New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend
After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard agai... More details on The Chris Farley Show
Freshman year of college we’re heading out on a road trip to Milwaukee to see a big game. We’re in the car. We’ve got the fifth of vodka, the gallon of orange juice. We’re ready to get loaded and par...
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What do readers say about A Monster Calls?
stories tell the truth the monster was real grief, loss, and fear his worst nightmareThe monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and... More details on A Monster Calls
He’d had a nightmare. Well, not a nightmare. The nightmare. The one he’d been having a lot lately. The one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming. The one with the hands slipping from his gr...
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What do readers say about Looking for Alaska?
insightful the characters were similar brilliant, witty old school coming of age storyThe award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars... More details on Looking for Alaska
FLORIDA WAS PLENTY HOT, certainly, and humid, too. Hot enough that your clothes stuck to you like Scotch tape, and sweat dripped like tears from your forehead into your eyes. But it was only hot outsi...
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What do readers say about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
fluid and accessible bioethics and race thought-provoking in the extreme first person narration#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"The story of modern medicine and bioethics-and, indeed, race relations-is refracted beautifully, and movingly."-Entertainment Weekly
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On January 29, 1951, David Lacks sat behind the wheel of his old Buick, watching the rain fall. He was parked under a towering oak tree outside Johns Hopkins Hospital with three of his children—two st...
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What do readers say about Missing May?
realistic fiction novel touching and gentle the mourning process contemporary real fictionSince summer was six years old she lived with dear Aunt May and Uncle Ob. Now, six years later, Aunt May has died. Summer, who misses May with all her might, is afraid something will happen to Ob. Most days Ob seems like he doesn't want to go on.
When May died, Ob came back to the trailer, got out of his good suit and into his regular clothes, then went and sat in the Chevy for the rest of the night. That old car had been parked out by the dog...
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What do readers say about Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret?
preteen girl’s novel it is very realistic frequently challenged book children's/young adult bookThe beloved coming-of-age novel from the author whose "name has long been synonymous with young adult fiction" (Los Angeles Times).
"Are You There God? It's Me Margaret is very special." -Amy Poehler (Vulture)
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1 Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. We're moving today. I'm so scared God. I've never lived anywhere but here. Suppose I hate my new school? Suppose everybody there hates me? Please help me God. D...
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