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  Nim's Island

  by Wendy Orr

  A girl named Nim is left on an island that her father and her live on. Her dad lives, telling her he will come back 3 days. She doesn't mind; Nim does the daily chores for the island and reads her book from her favorite series. She plays around with her friends, a seal lion and a iguana. She starts e-mail her favorite author of all time. Nim's father's cell phone calls stop coming, and the storms are nearing. Nim... (more)
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  Zorro

  Zorro

  by Isabel Allende

  A child of two worlds -- the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman -- young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century California. And so a great hero is born -- skilled in athleticism and dazzling swordplay, his persona formed between the Old World and the New -- the legend known as Zorro.
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  The Captured

  A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

  by Scott Zesch

  On New Year's Day 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by Plains Indians. For three years, he thrived on their rough, nomadic existence, becoming a fierce warrior. Never readjusting to white society, he spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how a timid farm boy could have become... (more)
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  Anything for Billy

  by Larry McMurtry

  The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud....Welcome to the wild, hot-blooded adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape their way into the shining memories of Western myth. Surrounded by a splendid cast of characters that only Larry... (more)
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  A New Earth

  Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  by Eckhart Tolle

  The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now , Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth , Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only... (more)
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  The Duport Inheritance: Book 1

  The Meaning of Night

  A Confession

  by Michael Cox

  The atmosphere of Bleak House , the sensuous thrill of Perfume , and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England. "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver—booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always... (more)
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  I Capture the Castle

  by Dodie Smith

  The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her... (more)
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  A Fine Balance

  by Rohinton Mistry

  With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two... (more)
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  The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  by Louise Erdrich

  For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the... (more)
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  The Tale of Despereaux

  Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

  by Kate DiCamillo

  Despereaux Tilling is a mouse. A small mouse. A different mouse. He becomes a complete outcast and has to face harsh punishment even more than ever when he falls in love with a princess- imagine! A human! Despereaux is sentenced to the dungeon by his fellow mice and even his own family. Fortunately with a little luck, a lot of skill, and some friends, Despereaux finds himself on a special quest- a quest to find... (more)
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  Pillars of the Earth: Book 1

  The Pillars of the Earth

  by Ken Follett

  A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece.
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  Island of the Blue Dolphins

  by Scott O'Dell

  Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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  Eat, Pray, Love

  One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

  by Elizabeth Gilbert

  This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert... (more)
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  The Well-Trained Mind

  A Guide to Classical Education at Home

  by Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer

  "Outstanding...should be on every home educator's reference bookshelf."— Homeschooling Today This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind: the... (more)
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  The Glass Castle

  by Jeannette Walls

  Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat," and there's perhaps no more apt a nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In THE GLASS CASTLE, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents: Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing... (more)
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  The Space Between Us

  by Thrity N. Umrigar

  Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who... (more)
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  A Town Like Alice

  by Nevil Shute

  The story of a young woman who survived a Japanese death march in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her -- even at the cost of his life...Also published in the US as "The Legacy."
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  The Master Butchers Singing Club

  by Louise Erdrich

  What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as North Dakota, where he... (more)
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  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award, New York Library Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award. Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City.His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to... (more)
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  The Yiddish Policemen's Union

  by Michael Chabon

  For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and... (more)