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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
10) Bless me, Ultima
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Tony faces the daunting prospect of growing up amidst constant religious and cultural uncertainty. His mother is a devoted Catholic, but her influence is challenged by Ultima--a woman with magical healing powers. As Tony follows his own path toward adulthood, he relies on Ultima's wisdom. With her guidance, he is able to forge his unique identity.
11) Suspect
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[2005]
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After a woman is brutally slain, investigators bring psychiatrist Joe O'Loughlin in for expert consultation. Joe is shocked to discover the dead woman is a former patient of his who cried rape when he rebuffed her sexual advances. Citing doctor/patient confidentiality, Joe hides this information. But the truth emerges, and suddenly he is the prime suspect.
12) The jury
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Paul Madriani novels volume 6
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[2001]
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English
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Paul Madriani has ample reason to suspect he's representing a guilty man. Dr. David Crone, a respected medical resarcher, is charged with the murder of a young colleague; twenty-six-year-old Kalista Jordan, an African-American research physician, whose body washed up on a beach in San Diego Bay. But when a key witness for the prosecution dies unexpectedly, leaving an incriminating note behind, Crone's innocence seems confirmed--until Madriani hits...
13) Missing May
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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44 Scotland Street volume 1
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[2005]
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English
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There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of trust, love, and loss.
15) Wish list
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Back when she was plain starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart, and vanished from her life. Later on in life, with a brilliant career, she sells her house in Hollywood for Chula Vista. There she meets Lex Sanders, a wealthy rancher and breeder of Arabian horses. There's something familiar about those smoldering eyes... something that triggers long-buried memories of passion so pure and perfect it couldn't possibly last.
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Akimbo series volume 1
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English
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On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 4
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English
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Mma "Precious" Ramotswe's comfortable existence as the only detective in Botswana is rattled when a certain Mr. Buthelezi opens the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency. Mr. Buthelezi's brochure advises, "Don't take any chances! Entrust your enquiries to a MAN!" As if this development isn't enough, Precious has also taken on two difficult cases, one of which hits close to home. But with wisdom and common sense on her side -- and plenty of bush...
18) Hatchet
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Back to School Reads - MID
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MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
If You Like I Survived, Read These!
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MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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Handling a busy case load at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and contending with an intruder in her home, Mma Ramotswe has plenty on her mind. So when her unfortunate past returns to haunt her, she is happy her husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is distracted as well. It seems one of his apprentices at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors has raced off with an older, wealthy woman.
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[2005]
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Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family--something he has never known--but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies--old enemies from...
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