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21) Oliver
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Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Oliver likes finding things out, so when his mother cannot explain the gurgling in the bathtub he builds a submarine, goes down the drain, and meets a group of vacationing penguins.
22) Labor Day
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Language
English
Description
Relates a story of love, sexual passion, painful adolescence, and devastating betrayal as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy--and the man he later becomes--looking back on the events of a single long, hot, and life-altering weekend.
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English
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
25) Wait
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English
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"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
27) Lost boy
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English
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After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
31) Big snow
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English
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"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
32) Alibi: a novel
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English
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In a historical thriller set in postwar Venice, Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, confronts a city still at war with itself and haunted by the atrocities of the recent past when he falls in love with a Jewish woman
33) Blueberry cake
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Little Bear LOVES blueberries, and while picking them for Mama so she can make his favorite blueberry cake, he eats them all and must find a way not to come home empty handed.
34) One day
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English
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In this heartfelt mother's ode to her baby boy, she shares her hopes and dreams for him as she envisions him exploring the world and blazing his own trail.
36) Alfie runs away
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Told he must give up his favorite, now too-small, shoes, Alfie leaves home, but not before his mother persuades him to take all of the things he might need while he is gone
37) In your hands
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A prayer from mother to son that he will always in safe hands"--
38) Return to sender
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English
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At seventeen, Rosalind "Lin" Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone, rejected by Nick Pemberton, the baby's father. Nineteen years later, she again crosses paths with Nick, and sets out to disrupt his life, only to find that she must choose-- between the revenge she thought would free her, and the bright new future that's about to be delivered to her door
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past."--Amazon.com....
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