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1. A death-struck year

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Author:
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
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Language:
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. Hold tight

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Author:
Coben, Harlan, 1962-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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5 stars
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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.

4. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Mark Twain library
Oxford Mark Twain
Modern library of the world's best books
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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.

5. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little women collection volume 1
Little Women volume 1
Puffin in bloom
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3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

6. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie

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Author:
Bradley, Alan, 1938-
Series:
Flavia de Luce mystery volume 1
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English
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2.7 stars
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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. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Collins classics
Classic collection
Kennebec Large Print perennial favorites collection
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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...

8. Chaos: a Scarpetta novel

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Author:
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Series:
Scarpetta novel volume 24
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English
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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. A traitor to memory

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Author:
George, Elizabeth, 1949-
Series:
Inspector Lynley
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English
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5 stars
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When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions.
What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated and tragic life could have wanted her dead?...

10. 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.

11. Firekeeper's daughter

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Author:
Boulley, Angeline
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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...

12. 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....

13. I survived the great Alaska earthquake, 1964

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Author:
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...

14. Five days at Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital

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Fink, Sheri
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Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...

15. Jo's boys

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Puffin classics
Little Women volume 3
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English
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4 stars
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Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jo's Boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New...

16. 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...

17. The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Author:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Series:
Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection volume 26
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English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic....

18. Merry Christmas, Geronimo!

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Author:
Stilton, Geronimo
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Geronimo Stilton volume 12
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English
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When Merlin is just eight years old, his parents abandon him, leaving him to starve to death in the woods. He survives. More than that, he thrives: Over the course of the next four strange years, he discovers and tames his terrifying powers; pretends to be a traveling player, passing among peasants and princes; and fatefully befriends a future king. In the three novels of the Young Merlin Trilogy -- Passager, Hobby, and Merlin -- master storyteller...

19. Falling together

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Author:
De los Santos, Marisa, 1966-
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Six years after their friendship abruptly ended, Will, Pen and Kat are brought together at their college reunion where past and present collide, sending them on an unexpected journey across the world that changes everything.

20. Revelations of Divine Love

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Author:
Julian of Norwich
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"Revelations of Divine Love" is a text of Julian of Norwich's dream visions that she had when she was near death. Then, after being miraculously healed, Julian of Norwich dedicated the rest of her life to writing her series of sixteen visions for all to read and understand. During her life, Norwich had suffered through three different bouts of the Black Death. Julian of Norwich remained optimistic in her faith, though; she denied that the plagues...

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