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  • EMPIRE OF PAIN
    PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
    The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutionsHarvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster...
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  • THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY
    DOWD, SIOBHAN
    A five-star mystery now in paperback! Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye, but after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off--except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationshi...
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  • THE BOOK OF DUST: LA BELLE SAUVAGE
    PULLMAN, PHILIP
    Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust.Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live...
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  • THE NICKEL BOYS
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown i...
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  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE (GRAPHIC NOVEL)
    MARGARET ATWOOD , ILLUSTRATED BY RENÉE NAULT
    The stunning graphic novel adaptation - A must-read and collector's item for fans of "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New York Times). Look for The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, coming September 2019. In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is th...
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  • FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM
    FRIEDMAN, THOMAS L.
    Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the "New York Times," drew on his ten years in the Middle East to...
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  • HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER : THE SOLUTIONS WE HAVE AND THE BREAKTHROUGHS WE NEED
    GATES, BILL
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry,...
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  • JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES : MY STORY
    LANG, LANG / RITZ, DAVID
    “Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number One leader of a manufacturing plan...
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  • HOUSE OF LEAVES
    DANIELEWSKI, MARK Z
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  • ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK : MY YEAR IN A WOMEN'S PRISON
    KERMAN, PIPER
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESWith a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well...
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  • HARLEM SHUFFLE
    WHITEHEAD, COLSON
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his ...
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  • I DON'T WANT TO BE A FROG
    PETTY, DEV
    The hit book about a willful young frog with a serious identity crisis and his heard-it-all-before father. Perfect for fans of Mo Willems's Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back!Frog wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog. A cat, perhaps. Or a rabbit. An owl? But when a hungry wolf arrives-a wolf who HATES eating frogs-our hero decides tha...
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  • THE WAVE
    STRASSER, TODD
    The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through disci...
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  • THE MAZE RUNNER
    DASHNER, JAMES
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  • THE INVENTION OF NATURE
    WULF, ANDREA
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  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
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  • AUTUMN'S KISS
    THORNE, BELLA
    "We promise you're going to love it." --Teen Vogue.com on Autumn FallsAutumn's Kiss--book two in the AUTUMN FALLS series by Famous in Love star Bella Thorne--is perfect for fans of Girl Online, Meg Cabot, and any teen or tween looking for a sweet, silly, and fun read with just a touch of magic!Everyone knows how crazy junior year is, but Autumn Falls never imagined it would be ...
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  • THE UNABRIDGED JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
    PLATH, SYLVIA
    A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time. Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Si...
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  • COMICS SQUAD: RECESS!
    MATTHEW HOLM / JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA
    A bust-your-gut-laughing graphic-novel anthology with original contributions from the most beloved names in the genre! * Jennifer Holm & Matthew Holm * Jarrett J. Krosoczka * Dav Pilkey * Dan Santat * Raina Telgemeier * Dave Roman * Ursula Vernon * Eric Wight * Gene Yang * Wowza! Calling all kidz! Do you like comics? Do you like laughing till milk comes out of your nose?! Look ...
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