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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
Evaluating his life on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master, Denny Swift, has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
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Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Told by Black Beauty himself, this moving story recounts his idyllic colt-hood and his experiences at the hands of a variety of owners, good and bad.
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Bless me, Ultima
by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Chronicles the story of an alienated New Mexico boy who seeks an answer to his questions about life in his relationship with Ultima, a magical healer.
Can also be used for: Read a Book with the Character's Name in the Title
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The Book of Goose
by Yiyun Li
When her friend Fabienne passes away, Agns̈ is free to tell her story of a long-ago childhood in a war-ravaged, backwater town along the French countryside where Fabienne hatched a plan that changed everything, sending Agns̈ on an epic journey through fame, fortune and terrible loss.
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Bunny
by Mona Awad
Invited to join a popular clique at her university, a misfit artist with a dark imagination is drawn into ritualistic activities that transform her perspectives on reality.
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A Castle in the Clouds
by Kerstin Gier
Young Sophie Stark, an intern at a fancy Swiss hotel, finds herself embroiled in intrigue and romance as the hotel's grand New Year's Eve ball approaches.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
After stumbling upon his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork and being blamed for the killing, fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, decides to track down the real killer and turns to his detective hero to help him with the investigation, which brings him face to face with a family crisis.
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Dinosaurs
by Lydia Millet
After walking from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed relationship, Gil discovers new neighbors in the glass-walled house next-door and finds his life meshing with theirs.
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A Dog's Purpose
by W. Bruce Cameron
Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative scientific experiment to raise his intelligence.
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A Game of Fox & Squirrels
by Jenn Reese
When eleven-year-old Samantha is given a mysterious card game called "A Game of Fox & Squirrels," the animal characters of the game come to life and offer Sam anything she desires if she completes the game, but she soon learns that they are hiding rules she isn't prepared for.
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Glory
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup of the longtime president of Zimbabwe, the award-winning author of We Need New Names describes a fictional nation of animals on the path to true liberation after the sudden fall of Old Horse.
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project against a backdrop of the budding civil rights era.
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The Horse Whisperer
by Nicholas Evans
After her daughter and the girl's horse are injured in a tragic accident, Annie Graves journeys across the continent in search of Tom Booker, the Horse Whisperer, hoping he can use his ancient gift to help both the horse and the maimed girl.
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Hummingbird Salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer
Sent taxidermied specimens of two endangered species, a software manager becomes the target of the ecoterrorists and wildlife traffickers behind a catastrophic global conspiracy.
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If Cats Disappeared from the World
by Genki Kawamura
When the devil extends the end of his life while banishing ubiquitous luxuries from the world in turn, a dying man weighs each forfeiture on poignant, existentially reflective days.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr. Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr. Norrell's pupil, in a witty fantasy set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England.
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain
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The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
Four American Indian men, who shared a disturbing event during their youth, are hunted down years later by an entity bent on revenge that forces them to revisit the culture and traditions they left behind.
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Ordinary Monsters
by J. M. Miro
At an institute where children with gifts the Talents have been gathered and where the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide, they discover the truth about their abilities and that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.
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Parakeet
by Marie-Helene Bertino
Visited by a bird she believes to be the spirit of her late grandmother days before her wedding, a bride receives a warning not to get married and embarks on a frantic search for her long-lost brother. 30,000 first printing.
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Perestroika In Paris
by Jane Smiley
Coexisting in the lush hidden spaces of Paris until cold weather arrives, an escaped racehorse and her companion, a German shorthaired pointer, forge a bond with a boy living in seclusion with his nonagenarian grandmother in an ivy-covered house.
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Remarkably Bright Creaturs
by Shelby Van Pelt
After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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Rez Dogs
by Joseph Bruchac
When the COVID-19 pandemic starts, Malian, a young Wabanaki girl, is quarantined with her grandparents on the reservation, where she befriends a local dog and learns about her ancestors and how they always survive together.
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Unlikely Animals
by Annie Hartnett
Emma Starling, a natural-born healer who lost her way, and her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain injury, team up to find Emma's former best friend from high school who has gone missing, setting in motion a miracle the town needs.
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What Are You Going Through
by Sigrid Nunez
A woman who is content to listen to the people she encounters talk about themselves is asked by one to do something extraordinary.
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The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by Vicki Myron
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
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Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
by Laurie Zaleski
The founder of an animal rescue shares her experiences caring for over 600 animals, including horses, goats, dogs, cats, chickens and pigs and how she was able to honor her mothers legacy by carrying on her work.
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
Follows the life story of an exuberant golden Labrador who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures, from comforting his human companions in the aftermath of a devastating miscarriage, to shutting down an entire beach, to guarding a seventeen-year-old neighbor in the aftermath of a stabbing attack.
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These Precious Days: Essays
by Ann Patchett
Turning her writer's eye on her own experiences, the brilliant author transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
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Wow, No Thank You: Essays
by Samantha Irby
A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan.
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Centerville Library
111 W. Spring Valley Rd
Centerville, OH 45458
(937) 433-8091
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6060 Far Hills Ave Centerville, OH 45459
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895 Miamisburg Centerville Rd
Centerville, OH 45459
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