Reading Record Finisher Books Adult Books
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Cook Fast, Eat Well: 5 Ingredients, 10 Minutes, 160 Recipes
by Sue Quinn
Presents a collection of recipes that use only five ingredients and take a mere ten minutes from preparation to plate, featuring everything from pasta, meat, poultry, and seafood dishes to light bites, dips, salads, soups, and desserts
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Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones
by Rebecca C. Thompson
Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science―fabricated climatology, astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake science in Game of Thrones, might think, “But how would it work?” In Fire, Ice, and Physics, Rebecca Thompson turns a scientist's eye on Game of Thrones, exploring, among other things, the science of an ice wall, the genetics of the Targaryen and Lannister families, and the biology of beheading.
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The Map of Salt and Stars
by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Living eight hundred years apart, two girls, a modern day Syrian refugee and a medieval apprentice to a legendary mapmaker, experience the pain of exile and triumph of courage.
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Miss Julia Weathers the Storm
by Ann B Ross
Vacationing at the beach with her friends, including one nursing a broken heart, Miss Julia discovers valuable items that have been washed up by a strong storm before her group is threatened by a strange couple that demands they hand over their findings. By the best-selling author of Etta Mae's Worst Bad-Luck Day.
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Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta.
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No One Is Coming to Save Us
by Stephanie Powell Watts
A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby. Set in the contemporary South, it follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream.
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
by Sonali Dev
A neurosurgeon from a politically ambitious immigrant family clashes with a talented dessert chef who would prove he is more than his pedigree. By the award-winning author of A Distant Heart.
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
An internationally renowned, curmudgeon economist and divorced father of three survives an accident before whimsically trading in his high-stress Nobel Prize ambitions to pursue elusive happiness. By the award-winning author of In Beautiful Disguises.
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The Real Girl's Kitchen
by Haylie Duff
Collects the actress's favorite recipes for soups, breakfasts, salads, and snacks, and includes kitchen and entertaining tips.
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Screen-Free Fun: 400 Activities for the Whole Family
by Shannon Philpott-Sanders
Fight back against boredom and keep your kids busy and entertained—without staring at a screen—with this handy collection of family activities ranging from DIY projects to outdoor adventures to easy daytrips.
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Second Chance Summer
by Jill Shalvis
Despite hating her home town, Lily Danville must stay where the work is--in this case, a job at the hottest resort in Cedar Ridge, Colorado--and when rescue worker and firefighter Aidan Kincaid regrets letting her walk out of his life, it's all he can do to get her to give Cedar Ridge--and him--a second chance.
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Space Opera
by Catherynne M. Valente
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for Galactivision--part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part, a very large, but very subtle part, continuation of the wars of the past.
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What We Were Promised
by Lucy Tan
Returning home to Shanghai after years of chasing the American dream, Wei Zhen and his newly wealthy family, including his wife Lina and their daughter Karen, must each confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.
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