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Adult Fiction
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The Last Flight
The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake
Nora becomes Dr. Croft’s most trusted assistant—an unthinkable and unlawful pursuit for a woman. Nora helps Croft’s groundbreaking research and his clinic gain recognition, and she finds she doesn’t mind working in the background, as long as she can continue to hone her skills. But the arrival of a new surgical resident threatens to undo all that Nora has strived for.
Adult Nonfiction
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Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss
Stephanie Wittels Wachs
When Wittels Wachs’s younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn’t know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother’s struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death.
Subjects: Drug addicts, Heroin abuse, Brothers and sisters
Page count: 288
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume.
Subjects: Farm life, Country life, agriculture
Page count: 432
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YA Books
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A Winter’s Promise
Christelle Dabos
Ophelia’s ability to read the past of objects is unmatched and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan.
Subjects: French literature, Fantasy fiction, Mirrors
Page count: 491
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Dress Codes for Small Towns
Courtney C. Stevens
Rebelling against the role others believe she should conform to, Billie McCaffrey struggles with her feelings for two of her friends.
Subjects: Identity, Triangles, Friendship
Page Count: 337
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Children Books
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The Christmas Tugboat: How the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Came to New York City
George Matteson
A New York Harbor tugboat captain and his family take the tug up the Hudson River to pick up and tow the barge carrying the enormous Christmas tree that will be displayed at Rockefeller Center.
Page count: 48
Lexile: 790
AR: 4.3
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The Mighty Odds
Amy Ignatow
A bus crash gives four very different middle schoolers odd super powers, and they must pool their powers to find out what happened to them.
Page count: 248
Lexile: 750
AR: 5
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The Cabinet of Earths
Anne Nesbet
Thirteen-year-old Maya, in Paris with her family for a year, lands in the middle of the mysterious La Societé’s quest for immortality when the magical Cabinet of Earths chooses her as its next Keeper, promising to restore her mother’s health.
Page count: 288
Lexile: 800
AR: 5.4
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