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Adams, Richard Watership Down Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the Warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. 2001 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. 2006 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Anderson, M. T. Feed In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. 2002 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Austen, Jane Emma Story of a rich, clever and beautiful 22 year old Emma who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match! 1991 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth. 1997 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the most talented result of Earth's desperate quest to create the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. 1992 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Clare, Cassandra City of Bones Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. 2007 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 : a Novel The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. 1995 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo The story of Edmond Dantès, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Château d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking down and punishing the enemies who wronged him. 2002 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. 2008 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Golding, William Lord of the Flies When a plane wreck leaves six British boys on an isolated island, their struggle for survival becomes a struggle against their own primal instincts. 1999 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Green, John Paper Towns One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. 2008 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hale, Shannon Book of a Thousand Days Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids. 2009 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Heiligman, Deborah Charles and Emma: the Darwins' Leap of Faith Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and very supportive of each other, but their opinions often clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and Charles questioned God's very existence. 2009 Children's Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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Hooper, Mary Newes from the Dead: Being a True Story of Anne Green, Hanged for Infanticide at Oxford Assizes in 1650, Restored to the World and Died Again 1665 In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child that was, in fact, stillborn. 2008 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hoose, Phillip M. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. In her own words, Claudette gives a detailed look at segregated life in 1950s Memphis and the start of the civil rights movement. 2009 Children's Nonfiction Book Other formats available |
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Keplinger, Kody The Duff: Designated Ugly Fat Friend Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties. 2010 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. 2007 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. 1960 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: a Novel Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 14: Debate Club, slightly geeky girl, attending a competitive boarding school. At age 15: a knockout figure, sharp tongue, a chip on her shoulder. And no longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer- especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done. At age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. 2008 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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