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Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake...
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"Jon Burwell, Viscount Kendall, knows what the gossips say about him. They claim he's been a dejected, half-mad recluse ever since he was jilted at the altar. The simple truth is that Jon has thrown all the passion he once had for his fiancee into his latest mechanical invention. But his single-minded existence has lately been shattered by repeated encounters with Miss Emma Ellingham, his neighbor's intriguing sister-in-law . . . Painting and sketching...
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2019.
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw...
6) Forever Rose
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2008
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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291 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
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As Christmas approaches, eleven-year-old Rose, the youngest member of the eccentric Casson family, discovers that life is filled with both catastrophic problems and wonderful surprises.
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2019.
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327 pages ; 24 cm
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Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn't always get right or completely understand. On the anniversary of her beloved father's death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan's barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Dan gives her a harp made of cherrywood to match her cherry socks....
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Applewhites volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
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c2011
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An instant holiday classic for the whole family. A heartwarming adventure bursting with the joy of the season. When Julia, a lonely foster child, discovers an injured rabbit on Christmas Eve, she forms an unlikely friendship with an eccentric farmwoman who vows to nurse the bunny back to health. In the process, Julia's own heart is healed and she forges a bond with her adoptive family"--Container.
13) 3 below
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Floors volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Having explored every part of the fantastical Whippet Hotel, Leo discovers that it hides even more amazing secrets beneath its foundation, in an adventure that puts the hotel's fate in Leo's hands.
14) Finding Orion
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
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Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
17) Floors
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Floors volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Bizzy the strange bird has decided: Today is Opposite Day! Time to eat dinner for breakfast, have a loud dance party instead of a quiet rest, and say good morning at bedtime. But Bizzy's best friend, Dill the odd duck, would prefer to have a normal day, with no opposites. So Dill says, "No, no, stop!" to Opposite Day, while Bizzy says, "Yes, yes, go!" Will Opposite Day turn best friends into worst enemies?
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
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Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying "Dead Man's Walk" to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans.
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