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The foxman
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Gary Paulsen |
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things. |
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Italienska skor
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Henning Mankell |
From the prizewinning "master of atmosphere" (Boston Globe) comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on the threshold of renewal. Living on a… |
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Summer Breeze
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Catherine Anderson |
(The second book in the Keegan-Paxton Family series)
The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outside her house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her family dead, she's … |
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Ferret Island
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Jennings, Richard W. |
Stranded on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River, fourteen-year-old Will Finn discovers a race of giant ferrets and a reclusive author who plans to use the animals in a plot against McDon… |
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Bambert's book of missing stories
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Reinhardt Jung |
A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved characters, releases them into the world on hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him. |
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The Marvels
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Brian Selznick |
Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text. In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant fam… |
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Under the Egg
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Laura Marx Fitzgerald |
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who… |
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Worldwide Adventures In Love
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Louise Wener |
Mysterious and inviting, Jessie and Margaret are drawn to their reclusive neighbour's house. It offers an escape from the dreary summer of 1977 and their fragile family life, into a world they can on… |
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The other
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David Guterson |
It is 1972. Neil Countryman is from the high school in north Seattle. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime. John William Barry is from Lakeside, a private academy for … |
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El Señor Mee
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Andrew Crumey |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileles… |
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Garden of scandal
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Jennifer Blake |
Laurel Bancroft has lived for years as a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced people have finally forgotten, she is ready to resume her life.Then… |
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Under the egg
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Laura Marx Fitzgerald |
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood t… |
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Misadventures of a city girl
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Meredith Wild |
Seeking escape from her Hollywood life, recently divorced Madison Atwood retreats to a Northern California resort and finds what she needs and also what she wants. |
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Edward Scissorhands
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Kate Leth |
After settling in with Megs and her family, Edward becomes curious about a television "miracle doctor" named April Wells, and enlists the help of friends and townspeople to send her a homemade auditi… |
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Not on fire, only dying
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Susan Rukeyser |
It is the fiery pinnacle of autumn in New York's Hudson Valley when Lola, a troubled recluse, reports her newborn kidnapped from outside a seedy bar. But no one's seen Lola with a baby, or even heard… |
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The lilac bouquet
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Carolyn Brown |
Come hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimac… |
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Harrow County, Vol. 5
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Carla Speed McNeil,Cullen Bunn,Gema Moraleda Díaz,Cullen Crook,Jenn Manley Lee |
The Abandoned, a giant monster with haunting yellow eyes, rarely leaves his ramshackle cabin deep in the woods of Harrow County. But it wasn’t always so. And when hunters travel to Harrow County in s… |
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How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
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Sara Nickerson |
With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earl… |
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Yamatonadeshiko Shiehihenge
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Tomoko Hayakawa |
The four hunks have almost despaired of turning Sunako into a lady when a toddler named Rin shows up and starts calling Ranmaru "Daddy." Ranmaru denies being his father, but Sunako softens up around … |
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Buck fever
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Cynthia Chapman Willis |
Through the points of view of twelve-year-old Joey and his fifteen-year-old sister Philly, tells of a family already strained by the mother's extended travel, pushed further apart by the father's dis… |
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