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Adult Fiction
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The Winter Rose
When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London’s esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city’s East End instead, serving the desperately poor.
The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it’s hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games.
Adult Non-fiction
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Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths.
Subjects: Mythology, Legends, Greece
Page count: 368
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet.
Subjects: Culture, Science, Essays
Page count: 293
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YA Books
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Furyborn
Claire Legrand
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.
Subjects: Magic, Prophecies, Quests
Page count: 501
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Three Dark Crowns
Kendare Blake
Every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it.
Subjects: Magic, Sisters, Queens
Page Count: 398
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Children Books
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Baseball Saved Us
Ken Mochizuki
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
Page count: 30
Lexile: 550
AR: 3.9
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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Lauren Tarshis
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship’s first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
Page count: 96
Lexile: 590
AR: 3.9
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Page count: 240
Lexile: Unavailable
AR: 4.9
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