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1) Chances are
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club-a new book that tracks an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years. Author Will Schwalbe describes his friendship with unlikely college-buddy Maxey through marriage, divorce, and career changes up until the present day, noting what makes their bond so special and enduring"--Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.
5) Boy + Bot
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Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy and a robot strike up a friendship despite their differences.
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English
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"From the best-selling author of Maine, a gorgeous, compulsively-readable novel that tells the story of the complex relationship between two women, Elisabeth, a privileged new mother and writer attempting to find her footing after childbirth, and Sam, the idealistic, working-class college student she hires to nanny her young son"-- Publisher.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader...
9) Come back
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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From a two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love. "Come Back" is a rare and beautiful novel about the humanity of living and dying, a lyrical masterwork from one of our most treasured writers. Rudy Wiebe's novels, stories and essays stand at the forefront of Canadian literature. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has won the Governor General's Literary...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and unusual realities with cunning, compassion, and wit. In "Acknowledgments," a male novelist reminisces bitterly on the woman who inspired his first novel, attempting to make peace with his humiliations before the book...
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(Michael Jay),Kit Feeny volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When plucky Kit Feeny moves to a new town, he immediately makes an enemy of the sadistic school bully and must struggle to find friends who share his interests.
14) Teddy & Co
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A group of lost toys live on an island, and their community must adapt as new toys come and go -- Provided by publisher.
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English
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The new novel from the best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It takes us on an unforgettable journey into first love, and—with the emotional intensity and penetrating wit that have made her beloved among readers all over the world—reminds us of how the ardor of our youth can ignite our adult lives.
Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is...
Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two thirteen-year-old girls, are obsessed with David Cassidy. His fan magazine is...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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Squirrel introduces them self at the start as an expert in making snacks disappear by eating or hiding them. What Squirrel really wants to do, though, is use magic to make the food vanish entirely. When a stray ice cream cone is discovered, Squirrel seeks out the help of friend Bear. But what's this? After being left out in the sun, the ice cream is gone! Drunk with power, Squirrel locates an empty ice cream truck and holds a magic show for a plethora...
19) Hey, Presto!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Friends Presto and Monty open a very successful magic show at the carnival, but Monty not only steals the spotlight, he starts to treat Presto very badly putting the show, and their friendship, at risk.
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"Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen's roommate at Harvard....
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