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Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction plus Juvenile & Young Adult
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Zoo
by James Patterson
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
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Haven : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds.
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Hang the moon : a novel
by Jeannette Walls
After encouraging her younger step-brother to participate in daredevil activities leads to an accident, Sallie Kincaid is cast out of her family, in the new novel from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Glass Castle.
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Birnam Wood
by Eleanor Catton
The founder of a guerilla gardening group that plants crops on roadsides, parks and neglected yards fights an enigmatic billionaire over a parcel of land in the new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Friday Black.
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Small mercies : a novel
by Dennis Lehane
In 1974 Boston, as a heatwave blankets the city, Mary Pat Fennessey, in a desperate search for her missing daughter, asks questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, who doesn't take kindly to anyone who threatens his business. 150,000 first printing.
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The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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In the lives of puppets
by TJ Klune
When an unwitting act of betrayal leads to the capture of his android Gio, who once hunted humans, Victor Lawson and his assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to the City of Electric Dreams to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
by David Grann
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth. Illustrations.
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Firekeeper's daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel.
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Miss Maple's seeds
by Eliza Wheeler
After gathering lost seeds during the summer, a kind woman tends them throughout the fall and winter before sending them out in the spring to find roots of their own.
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Lost cat!
by Jacqueline K. Rayner
Purr-fect for young cat lovers, this simple, silly story follows both a little girl who worries about her missing cat, Fred, and Fred, who has many fun-filled adventures until he finds his way back to the little girl he's been missing, too.
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The notorious Scarlett and Browne
by Jonathan Stroud
When their notoriety spreads a bit too far, Albert, who can read minds, and Scarlett, who has a way with weapons, must save their friends who are being held hostage by their enemies, a situation that forces them to pull off an impossible mission to win their freedom.
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Parachute kids
by Betty C. Tang
When their parents return to Taiwan, leaving her and her two older siblings in California on their own, Feng-Li must keep her family together as they all get tangled in a web of bad choices while navigating this strange new world.
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Spicy spicy hot
by Lenny Wen
Trying her Nenek's sambal to connect with both her family and Indonesian heritage, Lintang finds the delicious dish too HOT and SPICY until Nenek helps her find a way to beat the heat.
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My dear Henry : a Jekyll & Hyde remix
by Kalynn Bayron
After being expelled from London Medical School along with his best friend Henry Jekyll in 1885 London, 17-year-old Gabriel Utterson is overcome by jealousy when a mysterious and magnetic stranger arrives, capturing all of Henry's attention and drawing him into a dark mystery.
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The treasure test
by T. P. Jagger
When a blogger from the next town over starts spreading vicious rumors that the GEEKs are a bunch of frauds, four best friends with a penchant for puzzle-solving accept a challenge to prove they are true treasure hunters.
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Lasagna means I love you
by Kate O'Shaughnessy
When 11-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
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Saints of the household
by Ari Tison
After breaking up a fight that harms their school's star soccer player in the process, two Bribri American brothers have to lay low due to their physically abusive father and grapple with the weight of their actions to find their way forward.
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Ancient night
by David Bowles
"Ancient Night is a twist on two Nahua traditions: the rabbit which the Feathered Serpent placed on the moon, and Yaushu, the Lord Opossum who ruled the earth before humans came, and who stole fire from the gods to create the sun"
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