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In search of Lake Wobegon
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Garrison Keillor |
"In the twenty-seven years since Garrison Keillor first brought it to life, the town of Lake Wobegon has become a national treasure. Every Saturday night, when that unmistakable voice says "It has be… |
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Cape Perdido
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Marcia Muller |
Marcia Muller, bestselling author of the acclaimed series starring San Francisco P.I. Sharon McCone, returns to the remote northern California coast of Point Deception and Cyanide Wells with an excit… |
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Minding Frankie
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Maeve Binchy |
"Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of fathers b… |
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The underdogs
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Mike Lupica |
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, givi… |
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Chester the great
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Mary Francis Shura |
Nobody believed it was possible for just one new kid to change a whole neighborhood in one week--until Chester came. |
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Amelia Anne is dead and gone
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Kat Rosenfield |
Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eigh… |
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The eco-neighbor's guide to a green community
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J. Angelique Johnson |
Describes various ways young readers can help out in their communities by using "green" alternatives. |
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Messenger (The Giver #3)
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Lois Lowry,David Morse,Fikret Topalli |
Second installment to Youth classic, "The Giver." Required in numerous 8th/9th grade English classrooms. Introducing the idea of a utopian society to youth for the 1st time. The well known Trilogy a… |
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At Powerline and Diamond Hill
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Lee Snyder |
"How does a Mennonite farm girl, whose "closed" Oregon community prescribed a limited role for women and distrusted education, end up a university president? The author explores the paths that opened… |
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The Stupidest Angel
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Christopher Moore |
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mis… |
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Three minutes in Poland
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Glenn Kurtz |
"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz,… |
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Curtain up
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Lisa Fiedler |
After 12-year-old Anya is cut from her middle school soccer team, she decides to pursue her true passion, which is theater. With the help of her sister and new friend Austin, Anya puts together a kid… |
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The abundant community
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McKnight, John |
There is a growing movement of people with a different vision for their local communities. They know that real satisfaction and the good life are not provided by organizations, institutions, or syste… |
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Dear county agent guy
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Jerry Nelson |
"In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday nig… |
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Meet Me at the Pier Head
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Ruth Hamilton |
To save a child, they would sacrifice everything. Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post-war Britain, Headmaster Theodore's secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in… |
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Cold Snap
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Eileen Spinelli,Marjorie Priceman |
A cold snap has everyone in the town of Toby Mills feeling down, until the mayor's wife thinks of a way to warm things up again. |
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Be safe around fire
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Bridget Heos |
"A young girl teaches her dolls, action figures, and toys the fire safety rules she has just learned in school"-- |
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Anna's Secret
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Margaret A. Westile |
Anna Gillis, the midwife and neighbour in Mattie's Story, has been found killed. The close-knit community is deeply shaken by this eruption of violence, and neighbours come together to help one anoth… |
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Stories about Tacit
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Cecil Bødker |
Follows Tacit, a boy whose Granny never speaks of his mother, through his childhood and youth when he, now an apprentice blacksmith, helps deliver a single woman's baby. |
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Bowling Alone
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Robert D. Putnam |
"Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of … |
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