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1) Messenger
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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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...
3) Be a tree!
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Compares the structures and functions of trees to human bodies, shows the interconnectness and dependence of trees in a forest, and urges readers to communicate, share, and care for one another. Includes notes on the anatomy of a tree, ways to help save trees, and how to help in one's community.
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Journey to Harmony: Lyla's dream to move to the city of Harmony becomes a nightmare when she meets its residents. Though filled with hope and desire to fall in love with her new home, she discovers attitudes and behavior that make her want to give up and move on. Her hope, faith in others, and acts of service bring about dramatic changes to her and her new neighbors.
Follow your heart: Based on a favorite story from Chicken Soup for the soul. After...
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No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden. In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a better life - but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that there's more to fear about the grace year than the brutal elements and the poachers in the woods. Their...
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"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's 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...
13) Cannery row
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Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack and his boys, and the other characters in this world, where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and most poignant works.
14) Who will you be?
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"A picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become"--
15) Flood
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In this book without words, a family experiences the destruction and rebuilding of their home and community after a flood.
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A tale of two neighboring rural communities in Arkansas--one white, the other black--tracing their interwoven lives for over half a century. A study in relationships during such events as a black-white baseball game, a tornado, a rape, and the murder of the rapist. The story begins in the 1910s.
17) Cat found
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In a town where cats are tormented, eleven-year-old Billy finds Conga, injured and unappealing, and hides her in his bedroom to recover, then begins a crusade to stop the cat killers and find a safe haven for strays.
19) The homing
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An evil scientist terrorizes a California community with killer bees. They use human bodies to procreate and in some cases they take control of people's minds. By the author of Guardian.
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