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1) Cannery row
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English
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Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
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English
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S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling postapocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless.
The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable—and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face...
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The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable—and plunged the world into a dark age humanity was unprepared to face...
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Cedar Cove series volume 10
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English
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Olivia Lockhart-Griffin
16 Lighthouse Road
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
Mary Jo Wyse tells me she's in love! With Mack McAfee—who also happens to be her landlord. She and her baby girl, Noelle, have been living at 1022 Evergreen Place, which is right next door to Mack, for a few months. She says she's still a little wary about their relationship because, as she readily admits, she hasn't always...
16 Lighthouse Road
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
Mary Jo Wyse tells me she's in love! With Mack McAfee—who also happens to be her landlord. She and her baby girl, Noelle, have been living at 1022 Evergreen Place, which is right next door to Mack, for a few months. She says she's still a little wary about their relationship because, as she readily admits, she hasn't always...
6) Love bubble
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Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Harry's grandmother, Big Girl, teaches him the power of love for self and community."--
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
9) Water day
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note"--
11) El día del agua
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
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Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After her gorgeous husband deserts her, Patty Jane opens a neighborhood beauty parlor with her sister, and it becomes a warm-hearted place offering comfort, Norwegian baked goods, and a permanent wave.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets...
18) Unfadeable
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Bella "Unfadeable" Fades is a graffiti artist known for tagging walls and bridges in her Indianapolis neighborhood, the Land. When she discovers that people in high places are trying to defund the Land, she needs to put her trust in her neighbors, and bring her community together. -- adapted from jacket
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English
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"A stunning new novel from the author of A Children's Bible, a National Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020. Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins' The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the...
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