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Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts....
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CatStronauts ; 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"When Cat-Stro-Bot gets into trouble while helping the CatStronauts team with their research on Europa, the CatStronauts defy mission control and undertake a secret mission to save their friend on Jupiter's frozen moon." --
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Amber Brown ; 6
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English
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Overview: Amber has a lot on her mind. Her mom is engaged. Her father is moving back to the United States. Her parents fight every time they talk on the phone--and Amber is caught in the middle. It's enough to make Amber Brown see red! (Digest) The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody...
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"Narwhal and Jelly... and Otty?! Exuberant Narwhal and skeptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty the super-adventurous otter in the fourth book of this blockbuster early graphic novel series! Dive into three new stories about the joy of adventure and the power of friendship! In the first story, Otty the otter makes her debut splash; while Narwhal greets her with immediate enthusiasm, Jelly's not so sure...
85) Sort of super
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Sort of super ; 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When his dad makes him hide his super powers, eleven-year-old Wyatt Flynn, going behind his back, decides to make a difference in the community and teams up with his little sister to fight crime."--
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In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles...
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Olympians ; 6
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A latest entry in the best-selling series focuses on the goddess of love and combines accessible graphic illustrations with thoroughly researched storytelling to recount her dramatic birth from the sea foam, her role in the Trojan War and more.
90) InvestiGATORS
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InvestiGators ; 1
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First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"With their very exciting spy technology and their tried-and-true, toilet-based travel techniques, the InvestiGators are undercover and on the case! And on their first mission together, they have not one but two mysteries to solve! Can Mango and Brash uncover the clues, crack their cases, and corral the crooks--or will the criminals wriggle out of their grasp?" --
91) Punching the air
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
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New England writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman had a particular talent for capturing the rhythms of domestic life in her native region's small towns and villages, as well as illuminating the small domestic dramas and conflicts experienced by her characters. Those strengths are displayed prominently in the novel By the Light of the Soul, which follows young Maria Edgham as she grapples with grief and dashed expectations.
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Big Nate ; 2
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English
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"Big Nate will surpass all others! But it won't be easy. He's stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, who just might ruin everything! Will Nate win or lose? Pass or fail? Or end up in detention again? For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Meet Big Nate, self-described genius and definitely not the teacher's pet." --
94) The pale horse
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Relates the story of a Catholic priest who was murdered after hearing a dying woman's confession. On his body they found a list of names of people who had nothing in common. But Mark Easterbrook came to discover a connection upon investigation.
95) Apocalypse taco
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2019.
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English
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"Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that goo monsters are copying--and mutating--everything in sight." --
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"Wedding bells are ringing in the community that gathers around Seattle's charming knitting shop, A Good Yarn. Lauren Elliott has waited years for her boyfriend, Todd, to propose. Knowing she can't put her future on hold, Lauren prepares to make a bold choice. Newly married to her second husband, Max, Bethanne Scranton is blissfully in love, but her cunning ex will do anything to win her back. Lydia Goetz, too, is wonderfully happy with her husband,...
97) Cotillion
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English
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Comedy of manners of Regency England, 1811-1820.
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English
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Orhan Pamuk proffers a dazzling work of historical and philosophical fiction, set amid the scholarship and savagery of 17th-century Constantinople. When a young Italian scholar is taken prisoner, he becomes the slave and tutor of a Turkish scholar who is his exact double. The white castle is a triumph of the imagination, as colorful and intricately patterned as a Turkish prayer rug.
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Silhouette
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Socialite Paige Ashton had never expected to enter the charityauction she had organized. But when a bachelorette went missing, shefound herself standing on stage, the sudden "property" of the mostundeniably handsome man in the room.
Walker Camberlane had decided to rescue Paige from her uncomfortablesituation with the highest bid. But he was also interested in theAshton beauty for an altogether different reason.Paying $10,000 for her didn't give...
Walker Camberlane had decided to rescue Paige from her uncomfortablesituation with the highest bid. But he was also interested in theAshton beauty for an altogether different reason.Paying $10,000 for her didn't give...
100) Northanger Abbey
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Northanger Abbey was among the last of Jane Austen's novels to be published, in 1818, but the first to be written, mostly in 1798-9. Centred on the loves and friendships of Catherine Morland, an endearing young girl extremely fond of novel-reading, it remains the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. During an eventful season in Bath, Catherine meets the sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney who invite her to stay at their father's...
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