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5) One day
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Over twenty years, snapshots of an unlikely relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of each year. Dex Mayhew and Em Morley face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. Soon to be a major motion picture from Focus Features/ Random House Films.
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When it comes to movie critics Violet Epps is a powerhouse voice. Equally unafraid of big Hollywood names and public opinion, her biting reviews are widely quoted. But when it comes to her own life, Violet finds herself unable to speak up-paralyzed by crippling social anxiety. When a chance encounter at the famous Algonquin Hotel unleashes the feisty spirit of the long-dead Dorothy Parker, the famous literary critic of the 1920s, Violet thinks she...
7) Unless
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"Nothing short of astonishing." - New Yorker
"A thing of beauty-lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." - Los Angeles Times
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
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Thirtysomething Emily Wilson, having agreed to visit her great-aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island and trying to cope with her divorce while doing research for her next novel, finds a diary from 1943 and realizes the life of its anonymous author is connected to hers, sending Emily on a path of facing her past and looking to her future.
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Harper
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c2011
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English
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Christine, suffering from a rare form of amnesia where she cannot retain memories from day to day, starts seeing a new doctor who recommends she keep a journal, and her life starts getting scary when she sees she has written "Dont' trust Ben," the man who claims to be her husband.
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Crown Publishers
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c2011
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English
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While James Cooper, who recently left his post at the Hollows Police Department, struggles to come to terms with an event from his past, Eloise Montgomery, a psychic, helps Michal Holt to find answers about his mother; meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Willow's poor choices after arriving in The Hollows from Manhattan with her newly divorced mother could lead her to further danger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
16) Killing Monica
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"In KILLING MONICA Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, KILLING MONICA is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"--
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"From its gripping opening pages ... Life Sentences may be the most absorbing, entertaining mystery published in the last year." - Boston Globe USA Today calls Laura Lippman, "A writing powerhouse," and Life Sentences powerfully confirms it. Past and present, truth and memory collide in this searing novel from a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have won virtually every major prize bestowed for crime fiction-from the Edgar® to the Anthony...
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