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Before She Knew Him

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They had a secret, the two of them, and there was no better way to start a friendship than with a secret.’when hen and lloyd move into their new house in west dartford, mass., they’re relieved to meet.

Village By The Sea

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The village by the sea: an indian family story is a novel for young people by the indian writer anita desai, published in london by heinemann in 1982. It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in india

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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The triwizard tournament is to be held at hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter – but that doesn’t stop harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at hallowe’en, when the goblet of fire makes its selection, harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons, and dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, ron and hermione, he might just make it through – alive!

Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse

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The titan’s curse is an american fantasy-adventure novel based on greek mythology written by rick riordan. It was released on may 1, 2007, and is the third novel in the percy jackson & the olympians series and the sequel to the sea of monsters.

The Trials of Apollo The Burning Maze

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The third book in the latest series from international bestselling author, rick riordan he was a god once. Until he was cast out his father, zeus. Now, he’s an awkward teenager. Called lester. The only way out is a series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. For his third trial, apollo must journey through the labyrinth to free an oracle who only speaks in puzzles. Then, defeat the most vicious of three very vicious roman emperors. (all without the use of his godly powers.) It looks like he will need all the help he can get – from some new and old friends.

The Mirror & The Light

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The story begins in may 1536: anne boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired french executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, henry viii, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, jane seymour.

The Trials of Apollo The Dark Prophecy

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The second book in the latest series from international bestselling author, rick riordan he was once an immortal god, now he’s an awkward teenager. Things aren’t going well for apollo. There’s only one way he can earn back zeus’ favour, and that’s to seek and restore the ancient oracles – but that’s easier said than done. Apollo must head to the american midwest where, rumour has it; a haunted cave may hold answers. There are a few things standing in his way though. The cave could kill him, or drive him insane

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

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The sea of monsters is an american fantasy-adventure novel based on greek mythology written by rick riordan and published in 2006. It is the second novel in the percy jackson & the olympians series and the sequel to the lightning thief

The Grace Year

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The resistance starts here… No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. We’re told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. That’s why we’re banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we’re allowed to return to civilization.

The Remains of the Day

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The remains of the day is a 1989 novel by the nobel prize-winning british author kazuo ishiguro. The protagonist, stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at darlington hall, a stately home near oxford, england.

The Night Country

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The new york times bestselling sequel to melissa albert’s beloved the hazel wood! In the night country, alice proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors of the hazel wood.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

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The lightning thief is a 2005 american-fantasy-adventure novel based on greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by rick riordan in the percy jackson & the olympians series. It won the adult library services association best books for young adults, among other awards.

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

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The last olympian is a fantasy-adventure novel based on greek mythology by rick riordan, published on may 5, 2009. It is the fifth and final novel of the percy jackson & the olympians series and serves as the direct sequel to the battle of the labyrinth.

Into The Fire

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The gripping new sunday times top 5 bestseller from the bestselling author of out of the dark and orphan x evan smoak – former government assassin, ‘orphan x’, turned white knight of last resort – is planning on hanging up his gun. Then he gets one last call. Max merriweather has lost his wife, home and career. Now it looks like he’s going to lose his life. A murdered cousin has left him a package and a team of assassins on his trail . . . Nothing evan can’t handle

God Of Small Things

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The god of small things offers a keen insight into human nature with sensuous prose and dreamlike style. It is set in kerala, india, during the late 60s where communism rattled the ancient caste system. The story starts off with the funeral of young sophie mol, who is the cousin of the protagonists – the twins, rahel and estha. In a serpentine and suspenseful narrative, arundhati roy unveils local politics, social taboos and historical aspects that lie underneath family tensions which leave the relationships irrevocably shattered. In this poignant novel, roy captures the children’s candid observations, while showing an adult’s clouded understanding and complex emotional life

The Girl On The Train

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The girl on the train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by british author paula hawkins that gives narratives from three different women about relationship troubles and binge drinking.

The Trials Of Apollo The Tyrant`S Tomb

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The former god apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he’s been turned into a human and banished from olympus. And he’s called lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries right now. Though he and some of his friends have emerged from the burning maze, rescued the oracle and lived to fight another day, they can’t escape the tragedy that has befallen them, or the terrible trials still to face.

Heroes of Olympus The Blood of Olympus

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The blood of olympus is the fifth book in the bestselling heroes of olympus series – set in the high-octane world of percy jackson. Though the greek and roman crew members of the argo ii have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, gaea. Her giants have risen – all of them – and they’re stronger than ever.

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth

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The battle of the labyrinth is an american fantasy-adventure novel based on greek mythology written by rick riordan. It is the fourth novel in the percy jackson & the olympians series

The Archer

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The archer we meet tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo coelho’s story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfil, that a life constricted by a fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living.

Charlotte’s Web

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Stories that last a lifetime. Wilbur the pig’s life has already been saved by fern, but when he is sold to her uncle, he realises his life is in even more danger. Enter charlotte a. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider. Charlotte is determined to keep wilbur from the chopping block, and comes up with an ingenious way to do just that. Charlotte’s web is a classic tale of friendship, bravery and some animal magic.

Book Thief

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Special 10th anniversary edition with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author it is 1939. In nazi germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier – and will become busier still. By her brother’s graveside, liesel’s life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is the gravedigger’s handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins liesel’s love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library

Bloom

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Sorrel fallowfield is so good at being good that teachers come to her when they need help remembering the school rules – and there are lots. Luckily, sorrel doesn’t have any trouble following them, until the day she discovers a faded packet of surprising seeds buried under a tree in her backyard.

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

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So begins percy jackson’s greek gods, in which the son of poseidon adds his own magic–and sarcastic asides–to the classics. He explains how the world was created, then gives readers his personal take on a who’s who of ancients, from apollo to zeus. Percy does not hold back. “if you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a golden age for all that.”

Red Pyramid

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Since his mother’s death six years ago, carter kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant egyptologist dr. Julius kane. But while carter’s been homeschooled, his younger sister, sadie, has been living with their grandparents in london. Sadie has just what carter wants — school friends and a chance at a “normal” life. But carter has just what sadie longs for — time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.

The Hazel Wood

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Seventeen-year-old alice and her mother have spent most of alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the hazel wood, alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother’s stories are set. Alice’s only lead is the message her mother left behind: “stay away from the hazel wood.”

Origin (Soft Cover)

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Robert langdon, harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern guggenheim museum bilbao to attend a major announcement – the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” the evening’s host is edmond kirsch, a 40-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure.

Thorn

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A princess with two futures. A destiny all her own.

Between her cruel family and the contempt she faces at court, Princess Alyrra has always longed to escape the confines of her royal life. But when she’s betrothed to the powerful prince Kestrin, Alyrra embarks on a journey to his land with little hope for a better future.

When a mysterious and terrifying sorceress robs Alyrra of both her identity and her role as princess, Alyrra seizes the opportunity to start a new life for herself as a goose girl.

But Alyrra soon finds that Kestrin is not what she expected. The more Alyrra learns of this new kingdom, the pain and suffering its people endure, as well as the danger facing Kestrin from the sorceress herself, the more she knows she can’t remain the goose girl forever.

With the fate of the kingdom at stake, Alyrra is caught between two worlds and ultimately must decide who she is, and what she stands for

Heroes of Olympus The Son of Neptune

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Percy jackson, son of poseidon, god of the sea, has woken from a very deep sleep and come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die but they’re the least of his problems. Because percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods, which doesn’t ring any bells for him. There’s just one name he remembers from his past. Annabeth..

The One Plus One – Jojo Moyes

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One eternal optimist… Jess thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. But no one told her it’s okay to ask for help.

Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer

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One day, he’s tracked down by an uncle he barely knows—a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle randolph tells him an impossible secret: magnus is the son of a norse god. The viking myths are true. The gods of asgard are preparing for war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday. To prevent ragnarok, magnus must search the nine worlds for a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.

The Sun Is Also A Star

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Natasha, a pragmatic woman from jamaica, falls in love with daniel, an equivocal medical student, under atypical circumstances. However, their relationship is challenged by their own destiny.

She’s With Me

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Moving to a new town to escape her dark past, amelia collins is determined to keep her head down and finish her senior year. But her plan is proving difficult when she runs into aiden parker – the school’s hottest bad boy. Initially she can’t imagine anyone worse than aiden – his good looks can’t possibly excuse his bad attitude. But soon she’ll realise there’s more to him than meets the eye.

The House We Grew Up In

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Meet the picture-perfect bird family: pragmatic meg, dreamy beth, and towheaded twins rory and rhys, one an adventurous troublemaker, the other his slighter, more sensitive counterpart. Their father is a sweet, gangly man, but it’s their beautiful, free-spirited mother lorelei who spins at the center. In those early years, lorelei tries to freeze time by filling their simple brick house with precious mementos. Easter egg foils are her favorite. Craft supplies, too. She hangs all of the children’s art, to her husband’s chagrin.

Magnus Chase and the Ship Of The Dead

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Magnus chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the hotel valhalla and one of odin’s chosen warriors. As the son of frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, magnus isn’t naturally inclined to fighting. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including hearthstone the elf, blitzen the dwarf, and samirah the valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating fenris wolf and battling giants for thor’s hammer, mjolnir. Now magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. His cousin, annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, percy jackson, to give magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough?

Every Thing, Every Thing

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Madeline whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. But when olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. But does maddie dare to step outside her comfort zone?

Still Me

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Lou clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in new york and her new boyfriend sam in london. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him.what lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt

Me Before You

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Lou clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in the buttered bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend patrick. What lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.

After You

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Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she’s ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything.

Paris For One And Other Stories

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Liv, a spontaneous twenty-three-year-old graduate and sophie, a provincial shop girl, both find themselves in paris and in love. Though living decades apart, liv and sophie have a lot in common and they both find that marriage is only the beginning of their love stories . .

The House On The Lake

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Lisa needs to disappear. And her friend’s rambling old home in the wilds of yorkshire seems like the perfect place. Its miles away from the closest town and no one there know her or her little boy, joe. But when a woman from the local village comes to visit them, lisa realizes that she and joe aren’t as safe as she thought.

The Mister

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Life has been easy for maxim trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work, and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. 

Let It Snow

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Let it snow is a charming tale of love, romance and unforgettable emotions. Christmas eve is a time when the snow falls on a very festive ground which is decorated with lights. Gifts with colorful ribbons are being gift wrapped for loved ones. This particular eve, however, has all of this and more. There is an air of romance in the air as a hike from a stranded train ends in a kiss from a beautiful stranger, and the way back to true love happens during an early morning shift at starbucks. Also, a trip to the waffle house leads to falling in love with an old friend.

Into The Water

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Just days before her sister plunged to her death, jules ignored her call. Now nel is dead. They say she jumped. And jules must return to her sister’s house to care for her daughter, and to face the mystery of nel’s death. But jules is afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old mill house, of this small town that is drowning in secrecy . . . And of knowing that nel would never have jumped.

Not The Girl You Marry

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Jack nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy, internet media company instead of covering hard-hitting politics. Fed up with his fluffy articles and the app-based dating scene as well, he strikes a deal with his boss to write a final piece de resistance: how to lose a girl. Easier said than done when the girl he meets is hannah mayfield, and he’s not sure he wants her to dump him.

The Trials of Apollo The Tower of Nero

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It’s time to face the final trial . . . The battle for camp jupiter is over. New rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the hunters of artemis. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far from over. Now apollo and meg must get ready for the final – and, lets face it, probably fatal – adventure

Throne of Fire

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In this exciting second installment of the three-book series, carter and sadie, offspring of the brilliant egyptologist dr. Julius kane, embark on a worldwide search for the book of ra, but the house of life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.

Circe

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In the house of helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child not powerful and terrible, like her neither father, nor do gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts.

The Other Woman

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In an isolated village in the mountains of andalusia, a mysterious frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the beirut of old and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the kgb inserted a mole into the heart of the west– a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.

The Invited

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In a quest for a simpler life, helen and nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of hattie breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago.

Percy Jackson And The Greek Heroes

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If you like poisonings, betrayals, mutilations, murders and flesh-eating farmyard animals, keep reading . . . In this gripping follow-up to percy jackson and the greek gods, demigod percy jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original greek heroes in all their gory, bloodthirsty glory. Want to know who cut off medusa’s head? Which hero was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed pegasus, the winged horse? Percy has all the answers . . .

Daughter of War

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Hot on the trail of a north korean looking to sell sensitive us intelligence to the syrian regime, pike logan and the taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called red mercury. Unbeknownst to the taskforce, the syrians plan to use the weapon of mass destruction against american and kurdish forces, and blame the attack on terrorists, causing western nations to reassess their participation in the murky cauldron of the syrian civil war.

The Serpent’s Shadow

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He’s b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, carter and sade kane can’t seem to keep apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all.

The Killings At Kingfisher Hill

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Hercule poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from london to the exclusive kingfisher hill estate, where richard devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, frank. But there is a strange condition attached to this request: poirot must conceal his true reason for being there.

Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets

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Harry potter’s summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called dobby, and rescue from the dursleys by his friend ron weasley in a magical flying car! Back at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry for his second year, harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone … Dobby’s sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

Storm

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Francess parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So it’s no wonder frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a beach, in a storm.what frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.

The Librarian of Auschwitz

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Fourteen-year-old dita is one of the many imprisoned by the nazis at auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the terezin ghetto in prague, dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When jewish leader freddy hirsch asks dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to smuggle past the guards, she agrees.

Where The Crawdads Sing

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For years, rumors of the ‘marsh girl’ have haunted barkley cove, a quiet town on the north carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome chase andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect kya clark, the so-called marsh girl. But kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, kya opens herself to a new life – until the unthinkable happens.

If I Stay

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For seventeen-year-old mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they’re all about a future full of music and love, a future that’s brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold february morning . . . A snowy road . . . And suddenly all of mia’s choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she’ll ever be, mia must make the most difficult choice of all.

The Woman In The Window

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For readers of gillian flynn and tana french comes one of the decade’s most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-six languages around the world and already in development as a major film from fox: a twisty, powerful hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.

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