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"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas'...

A band of dolls, lead by the brave and noble Lint Boy, tries to escape the clutches of an evil woman who is the sworn enemy of doll-kind.

Annemarie and eleven other classmates find various ways to draw sets of twelve and learn about multiplication along the way.

When a devastating tragedy takes their parents from them, the eldest four adult Whittier children must put aside their personal issues and grief to keep the family together and support each other and their two youngest siblings. When Preston and Constance Whittier's romantic "wintermoon" ski trip ends in tragedy, their six adult children reunite in the family's Manhattan mansion for the first time without their parents. The oldest, Lyle, is reaching...

"Describes the life of the prehistoric animal Giant Hunter, within a graphic novel format"--