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Necessary Ill

By Deb Taber
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Taber’s excellent novel introduces some significant ethical and moral conundrums presented in a dystopian future when humans are...»

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A Boy Named Shel : The Life & Times of Shel Silverstein

By Lisa Rogak
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  Shel Silverstein has written so many wonderful books such as: Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and The Giving...»

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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By Karen Russell
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You may have read Russell’s 2006’s book of short stories, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, and have an...»

I'm not a baby

By Jill McElmurry
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When Leo Leotardi wakes up one day to the sound of his own tummy grumbling and tells Nanny Fanni he is hungry for waffles she replies...»

Half-Blood Blues

By Esi Edugyan
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Half-Blood Blues won the Canadian fiction Giller Prize in 2011, and was on the short list for the British Man Booker Prize. ...»

Mudwoman

By Joyce Carol Oates
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Fans of Joyce Carol Oates will be familiar with the dark and foreboding feeling that permeates her latest novel, an intense...»

Necessary Ill

By Deb Taber
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Taber’s excellent novel introduces some significant ethical and moral conundrums presented in a dystopian future when humans are...»

A Boy Named Shel : The Life & Times of Shel Silverstein

By Lisa Rogak
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  Shel Silverstein has written so many wonderful books such as: Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and The Giving...»

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Entwined with You
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, by Dan Brown
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Joyland
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Lean In
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American Gun
, by Chris Kyle with William Doyle