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Mr. Popper's Penguins

by Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater

Published: 1992-11-02

Paperback: 139 pages

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A classic of American humor, the adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins have delighted children for generations. "Here is a book to read aloud in groups of all ages. There is not an extra or misplaced word in the whole story."--The Horn Book. Newbery Honor Bo...

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Beezus and Ramona

by Beverly Cleary

Published: 2013-03-19

Paperback: 176 pages

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What's Ramona up to?Big sister Beezus Quimby tries to be patient with her four-year-old little sister, Ramona, but it isn't easy, not when Ramona powders her nose with marshmallows and invites her nursery school class to a party without telling her family. Sometimes Beezus doesn't like Ram...

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A Christmas Carol 2: The Return of Scrooge

by Robert J. Elisberg

Published: 2012-11-28

Paperback: 156 pages

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A Christmas Carol 2: The Return of Scrooge is a continuation of the beloved Christmas tale, that quickly goes flying off in its own comic direction. It begins five years after dear old Ebenezer Scrooge has passed away and left his thriving firm to his former clerk, Bob Cratchit. However...

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Rivers: A Novel

by Michael Farris Smith

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.Following years of catastrophic hurr...

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In the Land of Blue Burqas

by Kate McCord

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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“I lived in Afghanistan for five years. I learned the rules – I had to.”Riveting and fast paced, In the Land of Blue Burqas depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan, which has been called "the world's most dangerous country in which to be born ...

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Sleeping Arrangements

by Laura Shaine Cunningham

Published: 2000-07-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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From the acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist Laura Cunningham, a coming of age story and enchanting memoir of childhood "Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, disheveled appearance. Soil under nails.' She h...

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The Zero Game

by Brad Meltzer

Published: 2011-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But ...

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The Spymistress

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of “a true Union woman as true as steel” who risked everything by caring for Union prisoners of war — and stealing Conf...

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A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography

by Kayann Short

Published: 2013-08-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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In this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents’ North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community-supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small-scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cul...

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Tributary

by Barbara K. Richardson

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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*2013 WILLA Award Finalist in Historical Fiction*                                                             With "lyrical prose and heartfelt characters" (Publishers Weekly), this lively novel tracks the extraordinary life of one woman who dares resist comm...