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1. A death-struck year

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Lucier, Makiia
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English
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When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross.

2. A journal of the plague year

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Author:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
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Oxford world's classics
Penguin classics
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English
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5 stars
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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the time; the mass panics of a frightened citizenry; and...

3. Spawn

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Author:
McFarlane, Todd
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Image Comics
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Beginning The Satan Saga Wars! The Four-Part Story Chronicling The Final Fate Of Wanda Simmons Soul! This Story Will Forever Change The Way Spawn Will Live His Life! In the entire run of the Spawn comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself! Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize Wanda's soul. This story will...

4. Hold tight

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Author:
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
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Thorndike Press large print core
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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English
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Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.

5. To the lighthouse

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
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English
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"A beautiful edition of the groundbreaking classic novel, with a new introduction by award-winning writer Susan Choi. "Without question one of the two or three finest novels of the twentieth century. Woolf comments on the most pressing dramas of our human predicament: war, mortality, family, love." -Rick Moody, bestselling author of The Ice Storm. The enduring power of this iconic classic flows from the brilliance of its narrative technique and the...

6. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series:
Buckshaw chronicles 1
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 1
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English
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Introducing Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old with a penchant for poison that she nurtured to defend herself from her nasty older sisters. One day, while searching for ingredients, Flavia discovers a dead body in the cucumber patch.

7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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First Avenue Classics
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English
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A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

8. Chaos: a Scarpetta novel

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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
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Scarpetta novel volume 24
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta,...

9. No more tears: the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson

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Harris, Gardiner
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"An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies--from an award-winning investigative journalist"-- In No More Tears, Gardiner Harris, a former pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, uncovers the dark truth behind Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. After a chance encounter with a sales rep in 2004, Harris became determined...

10. I survived the great Alaska earthquake, 1964

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Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 23
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English
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It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...

11. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Vintage classics
Marvel illustrated
Barnes and Noble classics
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English
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4 stars
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The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who is greatly impressed by Dorian's physical beauty and becomes strongly infatuated with him, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that...

12. Unity

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Kindt, Matt
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Valiant Entertainment
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WHO ARE...THE UNITED? A new day has dawned for the elite assemblage of heroes called UNITY, and, in the wake of the Armor Hunters' invasion, the time has come to grow their ranks. Who will be the next fearless hero to join the roster of the world's most elite superteam? And just what is the international strike force called THE UNITED - and why have they marked UNITY's own X-O Manowar, Ninjak, Livewire, and Eternal Warrior for elimination? Join New...

13. Firekeeper's daughter

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Boulley, Angeline
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English
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Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths. Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a...

14. Rave Master

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Author:
Mashima, Hiro
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Kodansha USA
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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The beginning of the volume revolves around Shiba's flashback of his past, and his encounters with Resha Valentine in the Symphonia Kingdom. After seeing her dancing at night, he becomes convinced that she must be freed from her duties to the kingdom. However, he is thwarted by both the four Souten Soldiers as well as Resha when she tells him that she accepts what she must do. Resha dies after overexertting herself, but Shiba vows to protect the world...

15. A night to remember

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Author:
Lord, Walter, 1917-2002
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She was four city blocks long, boasting the latest, most ingenious safety devices of the age, a French sidewalk cafe, a grand staircase worthy of an opera house, private promenade decks--but only 20 lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board. Gliding through the calm sea, the Titanic struck an iceberg--and descended into history. This absorbing book provides a minute-by-minute account of the "unsinkable" Titanic's demise.

16. A study in scarlet women

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Author:
Thomas, Sherry (Sherry M.)
Series:
(Sherry M.).Lady Sherlock volume 1
Lady Sherlock
Thorndike Press large print core
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her...

17. Archie's Girls Betty & Veronica

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Archie Superstars
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Archie
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Betty & Veronica star in their first comic book series! Take a trip back to the earliest days of Archie Comics as Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge show the town of Riverdale who's really in charge! Prepare to experience the original Betty and Veronica with stories like in "Fairy Tales Do Come True", "A Night at the Opera" and more! DISCLAIMER: The stories, characters, and incidents in this publication are entirely fictional. This publication contains...

18. Where are the children now?

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Clark, Mary Higgins
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"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...

19. The war of the worlds

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Smart Pop
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English
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On a summer night, at the end of the nineteenth century, a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common in London. An artificial cyliner is found the next day and upon approaching it, the unsuspecting humans are instantly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying Martians emerge and blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England. Amid the boundless destruction that is caused, it looks as if the end of the world has come ... The War of the...

20. Without warning

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Rosenfelt, David
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"It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of predictions dating back to days before the murder/suicide....

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