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"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." —Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom's most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means
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The New York Times bestseller: "Venice shines through the pages of this novel. . . . Coupled with unexpected twists and turns [it] doesn't disappoint" (Tulsa Book Review).
A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Library Journal Mystery Bestseller • A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year • A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year ...
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
7) Stellaluna
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After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
9) The D.O.G
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Lola is determined to get a dog, but first she must convince her mother and grandfather, get the rules changed in her building, and a few other things.
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"In 1975, a baby just minutes old is taken from its devastated mother. In 2010, the gruesome corpse of a nun is found in a Dublin public park. Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are on the scene and he's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the infamous former Magdalene Laundries, institutions for "fallen women." As Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent, everything seems perfectly...
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Children's Mystery Books
Mystery Books for Third Grade
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Human Who Doesn't Look or Live Like You
Mystery Books for Third Grade
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Human Who Doesn't Look or Live Like You
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"Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month, cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing. Fortunately, since Aven was born without arms, all the "arm" cells went to her super-powered brain instead. (That's her theory.)"--
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2002
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16-year-old Kia learns she is pregnant. She must then confront not only her own fears but also the feelings of her parents and her friends from her church youth group. Throughout the book, the teen matures and begins to understand that giving birth and raising a baby are two different things.
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First published in 1923, "Emily of New Moon" is the first of three novels in a series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of famous "Anne of Green Gables" books. The story centers around the life of Emily Starr, a young orphan who is raised by relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Montgomery based the character of Emily on her own true-life story and often remarked that her personality and that of the Canadian orphan were very similar....
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Paige Harper can't believe her little white lie has made the headlines. The only way to secure the adoption of her best-friend's daughter was to fake an engagement with her boss. Now she can hear him marching down the corridor to fire her! The press have spent years cultivating Dante's devilish persona, but now he wonders if this "engagement" could be an opportunity to change that. Paige will wish he had fired her when she hears his terms: if she...
16) Pollyanna
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In early twentieth-century Vermont, orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, and uses her philosophy of gladness to bring happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community
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The Girl Who Wondered What's Out There is the story of my daughter, now named Alexis, and her time growing up in an orphanage in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her English is still developing, and slowly she has been able to share her memories. Even though she doesn't always have the words, her eyes let us know that she is always watching and wondering what's out there!
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The Marvelous Macki Brown has superpowers. But she is also super creative. She loves bright colors, music, and learning big words.
Macki wants you to know that if you are fortunate enough to have special powers, make sure you use them to do something good for others.
Join Macki as she navigates the life of a superhero!
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As a first time parent of adopted infants, Terrell faced multiple questions of not only how to be a new parents and father, but also how to explain to his sons that they are adopted and what that means. He searched for direction at the library, multiple seminars and educational classes and found them to be little help. The best advice he found was to always use proper and consistent terms and to keep his messages short and simple. Terrell and his...
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Oma and Papa with all their blessings
Bear Bear journeys through the ups and downs of foster care and adoption with his Little Princess. Based on a true story, Bear Bear's Journey shows the unbreakable bond these two share. But what happens when they become separated?
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