James Fouhey
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The event is almost over.
Before Raven lies a new ball of questions that he cannot unravel alone. His acquaintance with Niyara makes it clear that the universe is not only a boundless bunch of galaxies but an entire system of thousands of servers connected by a network of teleports, inhabited by many different civilizations.
Raven is aware that he is far from undergoing one such trip himself. Instead, he decided to focus on new techniques, old friends,...
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Bravelands curse of the sandtongue volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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"As the animals of the plains desperately search for the next Great Parent, only Prance knows the truth: she is the one who has been called on to step into the role. But how can a gazelle with no shadow and no herd protect Bravelands?" --
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"For generations, the Silverback troop has lived in peaceful seclusion high above the plains, but when a new evil descends on their home, one young gorilla must venture into the unknown to prevent darkness from taking hold of all they hold dear"--
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Bravelands curse of the sandtongue volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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The brand-new arc of Erin Hunter’s bestselling Bravelands series continues in the latest thrilling adventure!
Friends and family are split as longtime allies turn on each other, and born foes form unlikely bonds. The very threat that led Bramble to leave the place he called home has ensnared the creatures who live on the mountain.
As the mysterious poison begins to affect more and more animals, Chase struggles to determine where her loyalties...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner!
A hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience-including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi, and John Green.
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French...
6) Egypt's fire
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...
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An InsideHook Best Book of the Year
"Riveting fun to read."-New York Times Book Review
A TIME Magazine Best Book of Summer
A Vol. 1 Brooklyn Book of the Month
A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer
An Evening Standard Summer Reading Pick
An InsideHook Best Book of the Month
"An unforgettable debut. Mancusi is a writer to watch."-Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
A young philosophy professor finds himself in...
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Heal yourself to heal the world: The Power of Empathy is an informative and inspirational guide to building a better world through compassion, connection, and curiosity.
With this thirty-day approach, you can develop your empathy skills as tools for self-love and empowerment. Empathy expert and entrepreneur Michael Tennant weaves together scholarly research with his personal journey of loss, substance use, anxiety, and depression to explore how empathy...
9) Q
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"[A] delightful New York-infused novel …. A word to the tear prone: Don't attempt to read the ending in public." - New York Times Book Review
"[A] deeply funny, seriously smart novel, at times both romantic and pragmatic. Fans of Mark Kurlansky and Matthew Norman will appreciate Mandery's eloquently witty authorial voice....Q is a remarkably refreshing work, full of energy and eminently absorbing." - Booklist
"Q. is an amiably outrageous exploration...
10) The Final Six
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter's moon. This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian.
When Leo and Naomi are drafted, along with twenty-two of the world's brightest teenagers, into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever changed. Overnight, they...
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A thrilling new arc in Erin Hunter's bestselling Bravelands series! Set in the African highlands and told from three different animals' points of view, this is a perfect adventure for dedicated fans and readers new to the Bravelands world.
Echo, a water buffalo, is chosen by the Great Spirit to lead after a horrific accident-but can't command the respect of any of his herd. Stride the cheetah is keeping secrets from his coalition that could get...
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Retail never changes, no matter the system used to run it.
When Arthur Clark, wage slave and bookworm, takes a bat to the head, he assumes his days of dreary counter minding are over. Instead, a dragon who calls herself a goddess gives him an offer he can't refuse. The job is simple on the surface, manage a store in an apocalyptic city and bring her currency to the people there.
Upon arrival at his new home, he finds himself with little more than...
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MonsterStreet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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"Max Bloodnight can't decide what's more terrifying about his weekend in Wolf County--the fact that he has to stay with grandparents he's never met before or being stuck on a farm without cell service. If only that was all he had to fear. Determined to solve the mystery of his father's death, which occurred years before at the claws of a Determined to solve the mystery of his father's death, which occurred years before at the claws of a legendary...
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In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a landmark presidency that paradoxically, Kaufman shows, resulted in few, if any, radical shifts in policy.
Following his election, President Obama's supporters and detractors anticipated radical reform....
15) Boy
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A story as magical as it is real, that asks, if you could stop and restart time for a second chance, would you?
Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from crushing his final exams to military school to a career in the air force. But his family's tragic past and its complicated present have caught up to him, and his marks are slipping, jeopardizing all of his plans.
When Boy befriends Mara, a homeless man...
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Steve White's path from the housing projects to president of Comcast West was punctuated by defining, and often heart-wrenching moments. Moments that helped him identify what matters most and how he positively made a difference in his life and in those around him. As one of four boys raised by a single mother, Steve's life could easily have taken a different path. Instead, armed with his mother's determination that her sons make a better life for...
17) Weird Kid
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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From the author of Cog and Voyage of the Dogs, Weird Kid is a hilarious and heartfelt homage to everyone who feels like they don’t belong. Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Stuart Gibbs.
Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the fact that he has shapeshifting abilities he can’t control. Or that his parents found him as a ball of goo when he was a baby.
Keeping his powers in check...
18) That forever
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Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie's relationship has been like a Taylor Swift song. Best friends in elementary school. First loves in high school. Friends with benefits while Dani was away at college. But deep down, they have always loved each other. Have always been drawn to each other. And after much drama, they have managed to work things out and are now in college together as a couple. But dating in college isn't what either of them expected....
19) That promise
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"What happens to childhood promises when you grow up? Growing up, Devaney Diamond and Chase Mackenzie promised to go to college together. But it's been three years since the summer that changed everything between them, and their friendship hasn't recovered.Now, Dani is faced with all the challenges of her freshman year of college--navigating rush week, making new friends, and living on her own--which is both exhilarating and intimidating. In high...
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Teenage Breq escapes the grim streets of a resource low, near-future world to take a job as a 'corpse diver' in a massive online SciFi game, Bane. Breq finds himself in a dangerous, life-threatening adventure within the game as he searches for the reason for the death of his best friend.
With landscapes and settings that evoke the SciFi classics, our hero must level up his character as fast as he can, so as to be able to take on and defeat a sinister,...