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  • Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

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    The second novel of the Forerunner Saga trilogy by science fiction legend Greg Bear–set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

    One hundred thousand years

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    • Series: Halo #9
    • Author: Bear, Greg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: March 26 2019
    • ISBN10: 1982111771
    • Language: English
  • Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School

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    The fourteen essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead, including scripts and advice to keep the commu[more below]

    • Author: Icard, Michelle
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593137515
    • Language: English
  • 1933 Was a Bad Year

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    Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: June 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0876856555
    • Language: English
  • Brown Girl in the Ring

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    In this “impressive debut” from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city a[more below]

    • Author: Hopkinson, Nalo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0446674338
    • Language: English
  • Running Between Trees

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    Samira, a budding psychologist, is on her way to becoming the next Dr. Phil-or at least equally famous. Except that when confronted with the reality of choosing a career path, her ripe hunger for grea

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    • Author: Okeke, Gogo C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 1647047501
    • Language: English
  • Factory Girls

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    A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.

    Winner of the C

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    • Author: Gallen, Michelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752456
    • Language: English
  • No Bones

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    No Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland–but don’t tell Amelia that. She’s the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn’t want to know what’s going on. But

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    • Author: Burns, Anna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 17 2002
    • ISBN10: 039332303X
    • Language: English
  • The Song of the Quarkbeast

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    Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it’s finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be a

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    • Series: Chronicles of Kazam #02
    • Author: Fforde, Jasper
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: September 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 544336623
    • Language: English
  • Bridge of Sighs

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes “a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lync[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Russo, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 656
    • Publish Date: September 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 1400030900
    • Language: English
  • The Walled Garden

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    American grad student Lucy Silver comes to England to research Elizabeth Blackspear, a famous poet, but soon finds herself in a fight to save Blackspear’s historic gardens, hot on the trail of a decad[more below]

    • Author: Farrar Maass, Robin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1684631319
    • Language: English
  • Say Goodnight, Gracie

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    Julie Reece Deaver’s classic novel of loss and gradual acceptance has touched the hearts of ordinary readers for more than twenty years.

    Morgan and Jimmy have been best friends forever, and know each o

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    • Author: Deaver, Julie Reece
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 0064470075
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Frank

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    Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional “Frank” poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.

    Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surre

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    • Author: Caconrad
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 1933517492
    • Language: English
  • The Dishwasher

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    WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 As heard on CBC’s The Sunday Ed[more below]

  • The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence

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    The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens, a recovering alcoholic, Lahey’s stance is so compassionate, her advice so

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    • Author: Lahey, Jessica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 0062883798
    • Language: English
  • Studs Lonigan

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    Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell’s renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In thi… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
    • Author: Farrell, James T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 896
    • Publish Date: November 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 0141186739
    • Language: English
  • Parenting Teens with Love and Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood

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    Parents need help to teach their teens how to make decisions responsibly–and do so without going crazy or damaging the relationship.

    Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, from the duo who wrote Parent[more below]

    • Author: Fay, Jim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 03 2006
    • ISBN10: 1576839303
    • Language: English
  • ¿Estás Ahí, Dios? Soy Yo, Margaret / Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

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    Margaret es una ni a a punto de cumplir doce a os, y a la que le gusta llevar el cabello largo, el at n, el aroma de la lluvia y las cosas de color rosa. Acaba de mudarse de la ajetreada Nueva York a … [more below]

    • Author: Blume, Judy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 164
    • Publish Date: September 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 6075571086
    • Language: Spanish
  • Eli the Good

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    In his YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family. Available in paperback with a discussion guide

    For ten-year-old Eli Book,

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    • Author: House, Silas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 08 2011
    • ISBN10: 0763652881
    • Language: English
  • Kamusari Tales Told at Night

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    From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village.

    It’s been a year since Yu

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    • Series: Forest #2
    • Author: Miura, Shion
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1542028884
    • Language: English
  • So Done

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    When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-

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    • Author: Chase, Paula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 23 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062691791
    • Language: English
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