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[2024]
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310 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
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"The gloriously simple practice of choosing one thing to do, when to do it, and getting it done. Every day, a billion knowledge workers wake up, gravitate towards a pixelated screen and process information for eight hours or more, facing an endless and bewildering array of work and life choices. We're confronted with countless always-on options; untimely, unsolicited notifications; and a constant competition for our attention. This depletes our faculty...
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"Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker...
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Finfarran Peninsula volume 4
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On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they'll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.
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"Three different versions of the lives of two people who meet on a street in Cambride are told in this tale of possibilities and consequences that rings across fifty years showing how even the smallest choices can define the course of our lives"--
The one thing that's certain is that Eva and Jim met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next ... They fell wildly in love or went...
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Virgin River volume 9
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"Pastor's assistant" is not a phrase that springs to mind when Noah Kincaid meets brassy, beautiful Alicia Baldwin. With her colorful clothes and even more colorful past, Alicia needs a respectable job so she can regain custody of her children. Noah can't help but admire her spunk and determination, and she may just be the breath of fresh air he needs.
7) Blob
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Meet Blob. Blob can be any animal or any thing. But what happens when a blob just wants to be . . . a blob?
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"From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead-a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy...
9) Being brave
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Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Filled with loving and meaningful life lessons, this inspiring board book shows kids that being brave doesn't have to be grand or heroic. Whether you're feeling sad, nervous, unsure, or left out, taking control of how you feel and being brave starts with listening to your heart.
10) Bittersweet
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2014.
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376 pages ; 24 cm
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"The story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia."--
11) Amnesty: a novel
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"Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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152 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
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"Your parents' cabin resort is a wonderful place to spend the summer and a great opportunity to make some extra money. You work hard: cleaning rooms, running errands, and entertaining guests. But you also play hard: swimming, fishing, hiking, and birdwatching. Something about the area's bird population is off, though. Most notably, you haven't seen any bald eagles. When one of these majestic raptors is found caged in the woods, suspicions turn toward...
13) Elite
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Collective underground volume 2
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"Apprentice Flick thought the Elite Academy was the answer to all her problems. But the revelation of her past turned everything upside down. Now, she is caught between two worlds set on a collision course."--
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2016.
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278 pages ; 24 cm
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
15) The guardian
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When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a disheveled little girl alone on the side of the road. The young teacher is mystified when she learns there have been no reports of a missing child, and the girl herself is of no help, since she can't speak English. It's as if the child appeared out of nowhere. Then Jodi turns her attention to Hickory Hollow--and the cloistered world of the Old Order Amish--in...
16) Loving
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
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c2007
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1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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One bad choice leads to another and another. Follows the life of Katherine Fisher, a spirited teenager who finds herself alone in a seedy underworld where the only thing that will sav her is the love of the Father.
18) Stepsister
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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387 pages ; 24 cm.
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"1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fearat their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance...
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