With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy. Adams job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together. But lately Adam has been working too late, too hard, at the off... Read more

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This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel's sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massach... Read more

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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain. ... Read more

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"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book b... Read more

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Fantastically written, humorous, and deeply moving, Sherman Alexie's autobiographical first foray into the young adult fiction world follows Junior, a 14-year-old Indian whose vast physical problems and grinding poverty are outweighed by his incredible talent and refreshing, honest views on just abo... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Repair presents a new collection of poetry that considers such topics as the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, childhood memories, current events, his self image, and contemporary life during wartime. ... Read more

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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain. ... Read more

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Science and love are the subjects of these short stories and a novella. Winner of the 1996 National Book Award. ... Read more

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An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. ... Read more

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Life changes for 12-year-old Rob Horton when he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the Kentucky Star Motel. On the very same day, he meets Sistine Bailey and learns how to trust another person for the first time in his life. Nominated for a 2001 National Book Award in the Young People's Literat... Read more

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The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America. ... Read more

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An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family married him when they were both very young. ... Read more

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Olson seeks to break the race barrier by examining the genetic and archeological discoveries of the 20th century. Notably, the author claims that racial differences based on 'biology' are a misconception, that all peoples share a common genetic heritage, and that the grand diversity of life is a byp... Read more

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Twelve-year-old Vahan Kenderian, the son of an influential Armenian family in Turkey, struggles to survive alone after witnessing the deaths of many of his family and friends during the Armenian massacres of the early twentieth century. ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicompute... Read more

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In this dazzlingly unique novel, which won the 2009 national Book Award for fiction, Colum McCann examines the trajectories of the lives of several people whose lives twist and converge around one man's transgressive act of courage--a tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.... Read more

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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, Titus meets Violet, an unusual teenage girl who is in serious trouble. Read by David Aaron Baker. Book available. ... Read more

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Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive. ... Read more

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Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disori... Read more

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