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Khaled Hosseini
(2,915,609)
Summary: Hosseini's debut novel opens in Kabul in the mid-1970s. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, but his best friend is Hassan, the son of one of his father's servants. His father encourages the friendship...
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Call #: F HOSSEINI
Location: Adult Fiction
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Suzanne Collins
Series:
Underland Chronicles - #2
(44,797)
Summary: In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats,...
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Call #: YA F COLLINS
Location: YA Fiction
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S. E Hinton
Summary: The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
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Call #: YA F HINTON
Location: YA Fiction
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Kyoko Hikawa
Series:
From Far Away
Summary: Noriko is dependant on her companion Izark to protect her from the enemies all around her. Izark is the biggest danger of all, however, because an unimaginable evil is buried within him. When that...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL FRO
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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Kyoko Hikawa
(1,308)
Summary: Although they've only been together for a short time, Noriko and Izark are beginning to develop romantic feelings for each other. At the same time, Izark is tormented by what he is and Noriko is...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL FRO
Location: YA Graphic Novels
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Rick Riordan
Series:
Percy Jackson And The Olympians Series - #2
(1,020,531)
Summary: Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
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Call #: YA F RIORDAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![Wings [book + CD] : a tale of two chickens](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/25274@2x.jpg)
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James Marshall
(124)
Summary: Harrier the chicken rescues her foolish friend from the clutches of a wily fox.
Call #: J BOOK+CD MAR
Location: Junior Book+CD
copies in: 0 of 1
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James Patterson
Series:
Women's Murder Club Series - #6
(64,838)
Summary: "When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay...
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Call #: F PATTERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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Meg Cabot
Series:
Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls - #1
(6,548)
Summary: Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a...
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Call #: J F CABOT
Location: Junior Fiction
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![Smiles to go [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34576@2x.jpg)
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Jerry Spinelli
(5,138)
Summary: What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe? Jerry Spinelli knows.
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Sara Shepard
Series:
Pretty Little Liars Series
(79,193)
Summary: After their friend who has been missing for more than three years turns up dead, four former best friends continue to receive frightening messages from someone who knows damaging secrets about them.
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Call #: YA F SHEPARD
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![The 6th target [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34706@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(64,836)
Summary: When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer...
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![The Hot Flash Club chills out [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34787@2x.jpg)
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Nancy Thayer
Summary: Since opening up their day spa, The Haven, the wonderful women of the Hot Flash Club have been busy indulging the beleaguered, nerve-frazzled throngs. Now, in Nancy Thayer's hilarious new Hot Flash...
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![Oryx and Crake [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/34908@2x.jpg)
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Margaret Atwood
(253,687)
Summary: With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The handmaid's tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity--and its...
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![1st to die [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35244@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(326,649)
Summary: Patterson debuts his new series that introduces the Women's Murder Club. A demented killer stalks and murders newlyweds in San Francisco. Four women-a police detective, an assistant D.A., a reporter,...
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![2nd chance [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35245@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(107,018)
Summary: Master of suspense James Patterson enters a horrifying underworld with this second thriller in his dazzling new Women's Murder Club series. When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco...
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![3rd degree [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35246@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(86,923)
Summary: Lindsay and Jill are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when the townhouse across the street explodes into flames. A sinister note signed "August Spies" is found at the scene, while an...
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![The 5th horseman [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35248@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(71,077)
Summary: A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly grasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the...
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![Ain't she sweet? [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35357@2x.jpg)
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
(23,988)
Summary: A pregnant, penniless woman returns to her hometown and discovers that several of her old enemies are living out the life she left behind, from the jealous half-sister who married her high-school...
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![Snow flower and the secret fan [downloadable audiobook] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35405@2x.jpg)
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Lisa See
(363,160)
Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for...
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![The sign of the beaver [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35511@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth George Speare
(35,048)
Summary: In 18th century Maine, twelve-year-old Matt is left alone in the wilderness to guard the new homestead while his father travels to collect the rest of the family. He's brave, but has never had to...
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Ann M Martin
Summary: The summer Hattie turns 12, her predictable small-town life is turned on end when her uncle Adam returns home for the first time in over ten years. Hattie has never met him, never known about him....
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Andrew Clements
(12,752)
Summary: Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She's managed to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it that way....
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![Nim's island [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35555@2x.jpg)
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Wendy Orr
(4,755)
Summary: Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea, shared by only her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, a turtle called Chica, and a satellite dish for her...
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![Walk two moons [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35590@2x.jpg)
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Sharon Creech
(163,469)
Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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![Holes [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35592@2x.jpg)
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Louis Sachar
(1,132,736)
Summary: A miscarriage of justice sends Stanley Yelnats to a harsh juvenile detention center. While the warden claims that the hard labor that the boys are subjected to is meant to build character, it becomes...
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![Kira-kira [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35593@2x.jpg)
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Cynthia Kadohata
(25,760)
Summary: Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese...
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![Charlotte's web [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35606@2x.jpg)
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E. B. White
(1,714,832)
Summary: For decades, E.B. White's charming, bittersweet tales of friendship and adventure have enchanted audiences young and old alike. The magic of "Charlotte's web" comes to life in a delightful-and...
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![Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35618@2x.jpg)
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E. L Konigsburg
(4,492)
Summary: Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.
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![Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35647@2x.jpg)
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Gabrielle Zevin
(34,313)
Summary: Gabrielle Zevin, author of the bestselling novel Elsewhere, has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She...
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Kimberly Willis Holt
Summary: Nothing ever happens in Toby's small Texas town. Nothing much until this summer that's full of big changes. It's tough for Toby when his mother leaves home to be a country singer. Toby takes it hard...
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![Sandry's book [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35666@2x.jpg)
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Tamora Pierce
(30,436)
Summary: When four strange, and strangely talented, youngsters are brought to Winding Circle by master mage Niko they find themselves drawn together in a "Circle of magic" a circle that binds them despite...
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![The boy in the striped pajamas [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35691@2x.jpg)
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John Boyne
(737,773)
Summary: Guaranteed to spark discussion and debate--this is a tale of two young boys experiencing the Holocaust from different perspectives and getting caught up in terrible events entirely beyond their...
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Kimberly Willis Holt
(2,594)
Summary: Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
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Sandra Brown
(3,981)
Summary: A sizzling romance from the #1 New York times bestselling author who "knows how to keep the tension high and the plot twisting and turning." Cyn McCall knew she could always count on her late...
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Marian Hale
Summary: Sadie Wynn doesn't want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they'll be better off in Texas. Sadie hates this strange new...
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![Frog and Toad together [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/36638@2x.jpg)
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Arnold Lobel
(34,001)
Summary: Best Friends. Frog and Toad are always together. Here are five wonderful stories about flowers, cookies, bravery, dreams, and, most of all, friendship.
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![Oryx and Crake [large print] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/9047@2x.jpg)
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