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This Rough Magic
by Mary Stewart
A fledgling actress vacationing in Corfu, Lucy Waring witnesses the murder of one of England's theater luminaries and becomes embroiled in a dangerous offstage drama.
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AmƩlie
Quiet and reserved, AmƩlie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the mean time.
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Born Standing Up : A Comic's Life
by Steve Martin
The Emmy Award-winning comedian shares the stories of his years in stand-up comedy in a humorous memoir that recalls a first job selling guidebooks at Disneyland, his early magic and comedy act, his years of honing his craft, and the sacrifice, discipline, and originality it took to take him to the top, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.
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Lost in Translation
Two American strangers, a middle aged actor and a young newlywed, find solace with each other while battling sleepless nights and solitude during a visit to Tokyo.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by C. Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect.
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Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South
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Napoleon Dynamite
A high school outcast throws caution to the wind to help his new friend get elected class president
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second Nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato.
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Harold and Maude
Follows the unlikely romance between Harold, a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family, and Maude, a free-spirited octogenarian
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When Mischief Came to Town
by Katrina Nannestad
Arriving on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her stern grandmother, Inge Maria has difficulties staying out of trouble and conforming to local expectations about children being seen and not heard.
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Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas
Appearing before the Crown Prince after a year of hard labor in the salt mines, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom in exchange for representing the throne during a competition to find a new royal assassin, a challenge that is marked by grueling training and the murders of fellow contestants.
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Boyhood
Follows the life of a young man, Mason, from age five to eighteen, as viewers see him grow up and out of his boyhood. Filmed over twelve years with the same cast.
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Howl's Moving Castle
A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse.
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Top Cat
by Lois Ehlert
Top cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new, and cute, inside, and at first, Top cat does not want to share the house with the new addition, but he soon learns that two cats can be lots of fun.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
In the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet incredibly realistic androids, banned from Earth, fight back against their potential destroyers.
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Band of Brothers
Follows the 101st Airbone as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II
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Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
Originally published in 1928, this classic story by Virginia Woolf was modelled on her friend Vita Sackville-West's personality. Orlando chooses her own sexual identity as she lives through three centuries as both a man and a woman.
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Braveheart
Scotsman William Wallace leads his fellow countrymen to fight for liberation from England.
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Rain of Gold
by Victor VillaseƱor
Traces the lives of three generations of the author's family, and recounts the circumstances that led them to emigrate from Mexico to the United States.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Yolo County Library 226 Buckeye St. Woodland, California 95695 530-666-8005
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